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LEVERETT HOUSE JCR: Schoenberg Commemorative Concert, Jan. 21 at 8:30, featured soloists: Susan Larson, sprechstimme, Diana Hoagland, soprano, and Max Sung piano, Pierrot Lunaire, Piano Pieces opus 33 a and b, and the Second String Quartet, free...
...hobnob with composers like Ives and Henry Cowell and write irreverent music criticism for the now defunct magazine Modern Music. After signing on with Columbia Masterworks in 1939 as second in command, he made one of his first projects the first recording of Pierrot Lunaire with the composer Arnold Schoenberg conducting. It was something that only an ex-composer would have fought for. The album bombed financially on 78 r.p.m., but finally made back the investment when transferred to LP a decade later...
Next came the Phantasie for violin with piano accompaniment, op. 47 of Schoenberg, with Lynn Chang on the violin and Marta Dabezies at the piano. This piece would be of some historical interest, in any event, since it is Schoenberg's last will and testament, the last work he composed; but Mr. Chang's faultless account of the virtuosic violin part made the Phantasie interesting as music. Both performers obviously relished the music, and they richly deserved the hearty applause they received. (I can't remember any Schoenberg opus getting this kind of hand...
...Monday Night Concert Series begins at Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall. The Harvard Summer School Chamber Players will perform Mozart's Trro in E flat major for clarinet, viola and piano, K. 498; Schoenberg's Phantasie for violin with piano accompaniment; and Dvorak's Quintet in A major for piano and strings, Op. 81. Admission: $2.00. Tickets available at the Loeb Drama Center, the Holyoke Center Ticket Office, and at the door...
...wood winds. The delicate lyricism he conjures up between oboe and English horn in the pastoral movement of Berlioz's Symphonic Fantastique would be welcome at a chamber music recital. Yet for all his romantic predilections, Solti expertly manipulates the arcane configurations of such moderns as Arnold Schoenberg and Elliott Carter...