Word: schoenberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOLLAND FESTIVAL (June 15-July 9) takes place in four Dutch cities. Its imaginative programming includes four concerts devoted entirely to works of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern, played by The Hague Residentie Orchestra under Pierre Boulez in Scheveningen; three Debussy cycles in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. More conventional fare by the Concertgebouw Orchestra; dance and opera (from Rameau's Platée to Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron) is also offered...
...cost of $1,750,000, it is scheduled to reopen July 2 with Puccini's Madame Butterfly, followed by six other new productions, among them the U.S. premières of Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids (Aug. 7 and 9), conducted by the composer, and Arnold Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter...
...Eighth Symphony is actually well worth taking up the dare. It shows that Sessions at 71 has completely absorbed the serialistic principles laid down by Arnold Schoenberg, and now uses them with rare freedom, spontaneity and expressivity. His orchestral colors look back to Alban Berg, but he is visionary in the way he creates melody through the interaction of contrapuntal strands and in the way he achieves the proper symphonic contrast of mood without the usual resort to repetition. Just as his earlier music is beginning to find favor today-notably the Violin Concerto-the Eighth will undoubtedly have...
Rounding out the package are the Schoenberg piano works, which Gould plays with the sense of divine order and mystery that Gieseking used to bring to Debussy; an excellent stereo rechanneling of the album that launched Gould's recording career 13 years ago, the Goldberg Variations ("In those days, my tempi were souped up and rather breakneck"); and a conversation LP in which he admits that his nine years as a recitalist were "rather unpleasant, rather traumatic." In the time since, Gould says that he has had "four of the best years of my life." It hasn...
When I lived in Paris or London, everybody sneered at the Hollywood style or Hollywood superficiality. But when I moved here in the '40s, who were my neighbors? Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff, Aldous Huxley, Heifetz, Thomas Mann, Stravinsky and Rubinstein. What Hollywood style? What Hollywood superficiality? These creative people lived here, first, because the city is so widespread that you can have your privacy when you want it. Second, the climate. Also, people here are not afraid to break traditions. When we want to play without a conductor...