Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oxygen and No Tennis. For the past 14 years Schoenberg has been writing his music in California. Now retired from teaching at U.C.L.A., he lives in a white-stuccoed house in Brentwood Heights, near Los Angeles...
...find [them] works of a poet and a craftsman hardly surpassed by any musician now among us. Of course, they were written nearly 40 years ago, and had been so successfully reviled by commentators . . . that the performance has an element of daring." Manhattan's New Friends of Music, in a daring mood too, is playing a season of Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Schoenberg...
Chromatic Wonderland. Though Schoenberg, along with his fellow Southern Californian, Igor Stravinsky, is one of the great musical innovators of modern times, few listeners are ready yet to say that they really like Schoenberg's ear-hurting music-and certainly no one is whistling any of his tunes. Forty years ago, after he had written his popular, Wagnerish Transfigured Night (which Antony Tudor used successfully for his ballet Pillar of Fire), Schoenberg had put conventional, barbershop-type harmony far behind him, and plunged into a chromatic wonderland where all twelve tones in an octave are of equal value...
...those who say his theoretical contributions excel the beauty of his music, he replies wistfully: "If I have a choice, I would rather be considered as a composer than as a theorist. As a composer, I may be an artist. As a theorist, I am still a kind of an amateur. But then, I do not know my destiny...
Nearly 30 years ago, six noisy young French composers (Les Six) rebelled against their musical elders, rocked Paris with florists' catalogues and locomotives set raucously to music. Since then, two of the six are all but forgotten. Two more became familiar names to U.S. concertgoers: Darius Milhaud, who constructs brassy, dissonant symphonies at California's Mills College, and Arthur Honegger, a hit the past two summers at Tanglewood. U.S. movie audiences heard Georges Auric's scores in such movies as Caesar and Cleopatra. That left No. 6 unaccounted for. Last week he reached...