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Vienna's population has slipped from 2,000,000 in 1910 to 1,600,000 today. Where once it was the center of a rich culture that produced, among dozens of other brilliant men. Dr. Sigmund Freud, Philosopher Martin Buber and Composer Arnold Schoenberg, today, mourns Werner Hoffman, director of Vienna's only gallery of modern art, "Austria simply is not avantgarde. People are brought up cherishing concepts of the 19th century, and the stimulating effect of the Jewish element is missing." Attracted by better pay and opportunity, thousands of young Austrian intellectuals have deserted the Danube...
Pingpong. It is not so much an opera as a series of dreamlike tableaux strung across a barren landscape of the ear. The score is jaggedly dissonant, an extension of the twelve-tone music espoused by Nono's idol and father-in-law, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg. Italian Composer Bruno Maderna conducted the performance like a man refereeing a pingpong match, swinging from side to side to summon a swatch of mewing strings here, a splash of braying trumpets there. For the singers it was "up and down, up and down, from high C to low F," said...
...work must mature in the minds of maestro, musicians and public. His patience has often been rewarded. In 1928 he became the founder and conductor of Mexico's first major symphony orchestra. Giving free concerts, he taught his musically illiterate audiences the wonders of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Chávez. His own early compositions, such as the brilliant, flavorful Sinfonia India, in which indigenous folk tunes were distilled with impressive originality, earned him a reputation for localism that Chávez now frankly deplores. To critics who affect to hear the wind through the mesquite...
...attempt a real symphony or concerto at every concert? Why not attempt a real piece of twentieth century music at every concert: not Frank Martin, Roberto Gerhard, Alberto Ginastera, or the diaper works of Piston, Prokofiev, and Bartok; but Schoenberg, recent Stravinsky, our own Kirchner. Of course these works are too hard for the orchestra; but the attempts would be worth much more than regurgitations--and bad regurgitations--of Mendelssohn and Faure...
VIENNA, 1908-1914 (Mercury) does not celebrate the vintage waltz-schmalz associated with the era, but the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who at the time formed a kind of progressive under ground in the city of Johann Strauss. Antal Dorati leads the London Symphony Orchestra in 13 orchestral pieces by the three modern masters...