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When the new Malkiri Conservatory in Boston wanted a big name to plume its faculty list this autumn, it sent an invitation to Arnold Schönberg who, being a Jew, was leaving his job at the Prussian Academy of Music in Berlin. Great was the interest aroused by Schönberg's acceptance. He has upset conservative concertgoers more than any other modern composer. Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago. The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...
...easier to reconcile with the radical middle-aged Schonberg. He wrote his last solo for a speaker, gave him specific notes to hit as he recited about the peaceful things in nature. Philadelphians instantly recognized this so-called sprechstimme as the device which Composer Alban Berg, a Schoönberg pupil, used with the same wailing effect in Wozzeck (TIME, March 16, 1931). Piccolos had a prominent part in this last orchestration, done ten years after the first. The strings had difficult chromatics to flurry through. But it never got noisy or jarring, never lost sight of Tove...
Composer Berg's music was perplexing at first. It had all the dissonances to be expected of a pupil of modernistic Arnold Schönberg. There were no conventional harmonies, no set songs. Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff (Wozzeck) sometimes spoke, sometimes sang his lines. Soprano Anne Roselle (Marie, Wozzeck's mistress) had music so hideously difficult that it defied full, smooth tones. Robert Edmond Jones's simple, color-splashed sets had more general appeal: a ghoulish eye set in a screen for the doctor's examining office; the elongated shadow of a stack of guns for the soldier's barracks; a festoon...
Composer Alban Berg started his Wozzeck music in 1914 but then like all good Austrians he went away to war. His finished work, condensed to 15 scenes, shows clearly the teachings of Arnold Schönberg, according to whose ultra doctrine it is enough for music to describe the adventures of themes. With great skill Berg has woven a pattern of absolute forms, in the first act used a Suite and a Passacaglia with 21 variations, in the second a five-movement symphony, in the third a series of inventions. Like Schönberg he used the combination of song...
...score. In matters musical no one can exceed Stokowski's capacity for work. Nor has anyone maintained toward music a more open mind. For, although Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner have stayed his first loves, he has had time and bursts of enthusiasm for Stravinsky, Schönberg. Sibelius, Skriabin. He has been willing to experiment with a Thereminophone in his orchestra (TIME, Dec. 30), to encourage Hans Earth in his pioneering with the quarter-tone piano (TIME, March 3). His interest and energy have made him one of the world's great conductors. He may offend friends...