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Chicagoans have endured-and some have even enjoyed-some strange music recently. They have heard the sounds that Milhaud and Hindemith make, and last week they listened to the weirdest of all, the dissonant music of Austrian Arnold Schönberg, the father of atonality. The Pro Arte String Quartet worked its way through the composer's cacophonous String Quartet No. 3 and then played his familiar Transfigured Night, which he wrote in 1899, before he ran off the melodic rails. When Quartet No. 3 was over, the loudest applause came from the sixth row, where lively, gnomelike...
...nberg is convinced that his music is slowly winning public approval. Says he: "There is less resistance. Once I was beaten for my music, now younger men get some of the beating." Of Transfigured Night's belated popularity he crowed: "You see! In 1901 a critic said it was like a calf with six feet, like what you saw at a fair...
...four lectures last week at the University of Chicago, Schönberg tried to explain, among other things, what his music was up to. Sample: "I always attempted to produce something quite conventional, but I failed and it always, against my will, became something unusual. How right, then, is a music lover who refuses to appreciate music which even the composer did not want to write...
...nberg: Verklärte Nacht" (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor, 8 sides). A melodic tone poem for strings, written before Schönberg got lost in dissonances. Performance: good. Recording: excellent...
...most tolerant as well as the weariest of all the answers was that of Austria's (now California's) sad-eyed Arnold Schönberg: ". . . Considering the low mental and moral standards of artists in general, I would say: Treat them like immature children. Call them fools and let them escape...