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Phil Wilson and Andy McGlee--Lulu White Supper Club...
Anita O'Day--Lulu White Supper Club, 3 Appleton...
Boulez's view of Lulu is close to Stravinsky's. "As Mahler did for the symphony, Berg simultaneously amplified and destroyed the traditional outline," Boulez says. "Today the relationship between music and theater requires different conditions, for which Berg set the precedent...
Certainly no composer more closely tied each note to an onstage gesture, nor spun out a more painstakingly detailed and significant structure. It is a miraculous kind of mathematical puzzle. The whole of Lulu is based on a single twelve-tone row, which is Lulu's theme. All of the opera's other themes, accompaniments and leitmotifs are derived from endlessly ingenious extrapolations, inversions, retrogrades and other variations of the original row. These in turn are rigorously organized in a series of traditional forms. There is an extensive sonata structure in Lulu's scenes with...
...practiced listener cannot take in all these subtleties. But anyone can feel them - and feel is the word. Faithful as he was to the atonal vision of his mentor Schoenberg, Berg never left behind the yearning romanticism of Mahler and Wagner. Lulu retains a spontaneous, passionate life of its own. In projecting that passionate life musically, if not always dramatically, the Paris production presented a modern masterpiece on its rightful scale...