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...dissonances could kill-and be beamed 3,500 miles-the halls of Berchtesgaden would ring with Adolf Hitler's death yells. Last week the Albert Einstein of music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...
Composer Schönberg's music, as usual, sounded to the uninitiated as if the Philharmonic were methodically playing the Chicken Reel, a Bach Toccata and Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean all at once and in different keys. Nobody doubted that Hitler richly deserved...
...World War I, Europe's great musical culture suddenly began to express itself in what to many sounded like groans and cackles. Only a few oldsters such as Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninoff, clung to the traditional sonorities. In Vienna dour Composer Arnold Schönberg led a whole school of younger men in what sounded to conventional ears like some weird insult. In Paris, Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Honegger and a group of Left-Bank revolutionists began imitating African tom-toms and hopefully setting restaurant menus to music. U.S. composers in the main followed the Europeans. Scarcely...
...white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front of the hotel") and her ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name to Johann von Schönberg to start him off right. His French mistress pushed him right up the ladder by making him Henri de Beaumont. He became famous for his studies of nude ladies on bearskin rugs...
...rest of the group anonymous that TIME'S Hollywood correspondent declared: "To divulge her name would be the worst possible breach of journalistic faith." The Symphony invites conductors, well and little known, to preside over its sessions. José Iturbi, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Szell, Arnold Schönberg were glad of the chance. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, highbrow-turned-movie-composer, showed up with only 16? in his pocket. Nine members of the orchestra were assessed 1? each to make up his 25?. Favorite conductor so far has been Bruno Walter, who exclaimed at the end of his concert: "This...