Word: schoenberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instruments, music which has rarely been heard previously. Works like the "Octet" by Stravinsky, and portions of the same composer's "Story of a Soldier"; songs by a young German modernist, Hindemith and above all, the very famous work for reciting voice and instruments, "Dierrot Lunaire" by Arnold Schoenberg, which has created a sensation in other cities where the movement has been stirring. The concert is organized under the auspices of the Camber Music Society of Boston and the Boston Flute Players Club. The Vagabond has been perhaps too greatly influenced by the expressions of prominent critics who have favored...
...Kalisch; Aviation Promoters Daniel Guggenheim, Harry F. Guggenheim, Charles A. Levine; Benchers & Barristers Benjamin N. Cardozo, Arthur Garfield Hays Carolyn Fromberg Loeb, Joseph N. Proskauer, Samuel Untermyer; Civic Benefactors Albert M. Greenfield (Philadelphia), Albert S. Lavenson (Oakland, Calif.), Abraham C. Ratshesky (Boston), Mortimer L. Schiff (New York), Moses Schoenberg (St. Louis); Civic Workers Edward A. Filene (Boston), Adolph Lewisohn (New York); Educators Cyrus Adler, Abraham Flexner, Felix Frankfurter; Education Benefactors George S. Cohen*, Simon Guggenheim, Louis B. Kuppenheimer, Charles A. Wimpfheimer; Internationalists Leo S. Rowe, Simon Straus, Felix M. Warburg, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Adolph S. Ochs, Louis Wiley; Authors Lewis...
...consummate variety of the program might in itself be a worthy object of study and admiration to those concerned in the make-up of numbers for "high-brow" concerts. The blase critic, weary from countless discussions as to the relative merits of Stravinsky and Schoenberg, of abstract and "program" music, would pass an evening in which he would feel only the highest admiration for the obvious results which careful and prolonged training had brought in the maintenance of high, technical standards, a spontaneous ensemble and a genuine interpretive ability...
...eighteenth century airs from Bellini, Perucchini, and the Englishmen, Purcell and Byrd, followed it with a group of modern Hungarian and German songs by Bartok and Hindemith, rose to a climax with a group of American jazz songs by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin, and descended through Schoenberg, Arthur Bliss and Milhaud to the end of her program...