Word: schoenberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orgy? In Boston? Er-, ah-, well now, everyone muttered, that would take a little doing. But doing is Sarah Caldwell's speciality, and last week she led her Opera Company of Boston in the U.S. premiere of Schoenberg's epic Moses and Aron. For raw power, fireworks and daring, it was a spectacle that made Bunker Hill look like the Tea Party...
...ANGELES. Theater Group. At U.C.L.A.'s Schoenberg Hall: The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, through Aug. 28; The Flies, by Jean-Paul Sartre, Sept. 6-Oct. 9. Association of Producing Artists. At the Huntington Hartford Theater: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, starring Helen Hayes and Melvyn Douglas, Aug. 8-13; George Kaufman and Moss Hart's You Can't Take It With You, Aug. 15-20; Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are If You Think You Are, Aug. 22-27. At the Greek Theater: an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy...
...late 1930s, with the advent of the unmelodic twelve-tone school of Arnold Schoenberg, Ansermet saw darkness. Atonality, he declared, was not music. Drawing on his early background as a mathematics teacher, Ansermet published a complex tome that sought to prove "by mathematical formulas that the strict twelve-tone system is entirely opposed to the laws of hearing...
Died. Hermann Scherchen, 74, Berlin-born conductor known as an indefatigable champion of modern composers, introducing works by Schoenberg and Hindemith when they were unknowns, who scorned U.S. orchestras as timid traditionalists, rejecting invitations for 35 years until 1964, when his five-part concert in Manhattan proved stunningly worth waiting for; of a heart attack; in Florence...
...styles, the romantic and the modern. In his struggle to reconcile the two, he helped to break up the romantic tradition and in his late compositions -the six Poly phonic Studies and the superb but rarely performed opera Doktor Faust -he struck out in the same general direction as Schoenberg and Stravinsky...