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...musty airraid shelters or the hot, windy dust bowl of Mount Scopus, they customarily keep near-perfect measure and make fervent music. Last week the 34-year-old orchestra was shaken by another kind of disturbance. Its ordinarily staid and loyal subscribers, protesting the premiere in Israel of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, had tried to get rid of their subscription tickets in droves. Many of those who actually did show up at the performance later walked out of Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium in mid-concert...
...works of Richard Wagner are not played in Israel because of the composer's personal notions of Nordic supremacy. Richard Strauss, too, goes unheard, largely due to the fact that he held an official title under the Nazis. As a Jew, Arnold Schoenberg had no such racial or political taint. His Violin Concerto, written in 1936 and long considered a classic of atonal music, was simply too "modern" and too unmelodic for the Israel Philharmonic's public, many of whom believe that real music may have stopped with the arrival of Stravinsky. "We come to the concerts tired...
...Rockfeller Foundation grant for the preparation of contemporary music. Sunday's concert, with Alexander Schncider conducting, consists of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622, Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, a Corelli Concerto Grosso, and the Mozart G Minor Symphony, K. 183. Later concerts will include Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie, Stravinksy's Concerto for Strings, Elliot Carter's The Minotaur, and Haydn's Oxford Symphony, all of them extremely interesting pieces...
Vary the Flow. Faced by the tattered state of tonality at the start of the 20th century, Arnold Schoenberg sought a new direction through the tight formations of serialism. Later on, other composers began an exploration of the resources of raw sound. Gerd Zacher is still doing just that. In normal practice, each organ pipe receives a steady and unchangeable supply of wind from the bellows and each produces only one single tone. What Zacher worked out was a way to vary the flow of air and thereby produce a family of tones from a single pipe, in much...
...Sanders was jammed for the concert, and I am sure that part of what the audience enjoyed so much was the rare sight of an orchestra that looked as though to play Schoenberg and Beethoven was an utterly consuming challenge and really the only important thing in the world at that moment...