Word: nberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word got around that Harrell was a singer who never choked in the clutch of modern music. Without so much as raising his sun-bleached eyebrows, he spoke the rhythmically complex narrator's part in the world premiere of Schönberg's Ode to Napoleon with the Philharmonic in 1944, sang the lead in Bernard Rogers' opera The Warrior...
Tilted & Contorted. A prize pupil of Twelve-Tonalist Arnold SchÖnberg, Berg set his opera in the tilted frame of atonality, or better, non-tonality-with no fixed key as a point of reference, or familiar chordal relationships. In his huge (110 pieces), often brassy orchestration, he painted warmly and painstakingly, missing no musical detail that would illuminate a character or a scene...