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Boulez's music, derived from the twelve-tone system of Arnold Schoenberg, is devoid of conventional melodies and harmonies. Instead it is made up of bursts of tones that are combined into seemingly cacophonous passages, which tax both the ear and the mind. It can sound dense and abstruse at first acquaintance, yet, like the notion that Boulez is unfeeling, this too is a misper- ception. Forbidding though his music undeniably can be, it amply repays careful, open-minded listening, gradually revealing its sweep and surge...
...periodically prosperous family was driven out of Seoul in 1950 by the ravages of the Korean War. His father resettled first in Hong Kong and then Tokyo, where Paik earned a university degree with a major in philosophy. At that point, infatuated with the music of Arnold Schoenberg and Western avant-gardism in general, the young graduate might have pursued his studies in the U.S. The country, however, did not interest him. "Many middle-class Koreans go to live in America in the 1950s," he says. "But I think then there is not much culture in America, Hemingway...
...absolutely the most excusing professor I've had here," said Nara Schoenberg '87, who took Literature and Arts A-22. "Pets, Poems, Poetry" with Vendler last fall. "I wandered into the course and felt like I had to take...
Dohnányi's strength lies in warm but unsentimentalized interpretations of an essentially Central European repertoire. His love of contemporary music is already clear in his Cleveland programming: on a U.S. tour last month, he offered a ravishing performance of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished atonal oratorio, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), and an impassioned reading of Alban Berg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong...
...hired hand on a chicken farm; Writer Walter Mehring became a warehouse foreman; Philosopher Heinrich Blucher shoveled chemicals in a factory. In the sassy spirit of Berlin cabarets of the 1920s, they devised impromptu dictionaries of slang, with emphasis on "dough" and "bread." Twelve-tone Composer Arnold Schoenberg dispensed to fellow exiles his one-note advice for social success: When in doubt, smile...