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...Wittgenstein" at 7:30 and 9 p.m. A humorous portrait of one of this century's most influential philosophers. Wittgenstein led an extremely dramatic, unconventional life. Born in the Vienna of Freud and Schoenberg, young Ludwig was a schoolmate of Adolf Hitler...
Bartok's First Violin Sonata, while heavily influenced by the atonality of Schoenberg, abounds with injunctions of "espressivo" and "appasionato". A listener not aware of this might have thought from Chase's performance that Bartok, desiring some special effect, had ordered the violinist to play dispassionately, and vibrato only selectively if at all. While the first movement is supposed to be tense in character, the rigidity manifest in Chase did not seem quite appropriate. Her sound was frequently forced, and what at first seemed like a special effect--the fact that her vibrato began only after half of each note...
Sirlin's wizardry, however, has been lavished on a curiously old-fashioned trio of composers. The best of the new works is Weisgall's Esther, by a composer who turns 81 this week and whose fondness for outmoded, Schoenberg- style serialism remains unabated. The story of Esther's dramatic rescue of the Jews from the evil Persian vizier Haman, celebrated each year in the feast of Purim, is one of the Bible's most gripping tales, and Weisgall, working to a libretto by Charles Kondek, has told it well. Tunes, no; drama, yes. The stark and uncompromising Esther...
MAHLER CALLED HIM A GENIUS; Richard Strauss held him in awe; Puccini said he could give away half his talent and still have plenty left over. Schoenberg? Stravinsky? No, the recipient of these accolades was a wunderkind from Vienna named Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The son of the city's leading music critic, young Korngold had written a large body of music before he turned 15, including a piano sonata for Artur Schnabel, and achieved international success in 1920 at the age of 23 with his romantic opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City). It seemed possible that he would...
Interests mean boredom. (As in the "interests" people list in "personal ads" -- "Schoenberg, late Heidegger and Hustler" -- or in the bodies known as "interest groups." Of course, you will already have found that "personal" in any case means "impersonal"; thus a "personal ad" is, in fact, a highly impersonal solicitation for companionship...