Word: schocnberg
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...being stranded in Los Angeles, that sub-Fellinian mammalian circus. His wit has also prevented the vegetative decay which afflicts so many old artists. The man who has known and worked with almost every major artist in this country, has lived in Los Angeles with Huxley, Isherwood, Mann, and Schocnberg, and seen all but Isherwood pass away, is essentially a happy spirit...
...pieces by epiphanic happenings. His conclusion is that those who toil most glamorously at self-conscious modernity are those who have the least chance for valuable contribution. Integrity and "modernity," separate from formal exploration, are antagonistic. The past lives in the art which lives. The mainstream flows to Schocnberg and Stravinsky, who are essentially similar in their conception of music, rather than antithetical, as is often assumed. The problem with such composers as Cage and enakis is whether they are belligerent in a healthy manner, whether in their individual attempts at radical changes, they do not really negate innovation...
Thus Michael Steinberg, music critic for the Boston Globe, described the Harvard-Radflifle Orchestra at the December 13, 1968 concert when the orchestra joined forces with the Glee Club and the Harvard-Radflifle Chorus to perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Schocnberg's Survivor From Warsaw. . It is certainly the challenge and musical excitement that brings people in HRO together. The organization is completely voluntary. Only two of the members are music concentrators, the rest being of every field from Biochemistry to Classics. Although heavily committed to their own fields, members are willing to put in about 30 hours...
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