Word: konzerthaus
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...pair of department store jeans. The chorus of village maidens, bodices laced up and hair braided like so many St. Pauli Girls, drink lager out of disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, shares space on the stage with a blue plastic trash bin that looks like it might have been purchased at the Home Depot in West Roxbury, Mass. The period and setting are never clear, producing an inscrutable operatic haze that frustrates singers and spectators alike.The haze finally cleared?...
Wondrous Ladder. The fierce critical dispute last week concerned the work of the late Arnold Schoenberg, a Viennese composer whose atonal music still stirs controversy ten years after his death. This time the argument started at Vienna's famed Konzerthaus after the world première of a little-remembered Schoenberg work-a fragmentary, 45-minute oratorio, Jacob's Ladder. Schoenberg wrote the text for his oratorio in 1915, started to write the music but was interrupted by World War I service in the Austrian army. He abandoned the score for more than 20 years, returned...
...TROUT" QUINTET (Schubert): Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist, and Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet...
Mozart: Divertimenti (Vienna Philharmonic Wind Group, Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet; Westminster, 5 separate LPs). Three of these disks for various combinations of woodwinds have an outdoor note that adds a tart delight to indoor listening. They are cleanly played, gay, youthful craft pieces composed for special occasions. The music bounces and jumps, always with 18th century dignity, puts no strain on the intellect. The other two disks are scored for strings and have a bit more body and substance...
...music. The new composition on the Vienna Symphony concert program one night last week was included not as a première, but as a novelty. It was Piano Concerto No. 1 by Los Angeles' young (32) Benjamin Lees, neatly played by Alexander Jenner and the Konzerthaus audience liked it better than anything else on the program. It sounded well-padded and fluent, comfortably conservative in its rhythmic patterns. It was often reminiscent of Prokofiev, had a satisfying amount of orchestral razzle-dazzle and was, all in all, a pretty piece. The audience indicated that it would not mind...