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...delight; the rest, a puzzle. The Brandeis players produced a more-than-competent performance of Haydn's Trio No. 5, for piano, violin, and cello; and their execution of the other work before the intermission, a Schubert song for voice, piano, and clarinet, was superb. But about Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," which took up the rest of the evening, it is difficult to be so enthusiastic...
...Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," written around 1910 for speaking voice and chamber orchestra, is based on a collection of poems by Alfred Giraud. The mood of the poetry is fantasy (one stanza reads: "As a pallid drop of blood Tints the lips of one in sickness,/ So inherently this music/Tempts destruction of the self"). There can be no doubt that the music is cast in the same vein as the poetry. It is modern composition at its harshest, its most discordant, its most trenchant...
...July 25: 8 p.m. Theatre-Chamber Music Concert - Boston Arts Quartet - Weber: Five Movements, Op. 5 Berger: Quartet (1958) - Schoenberg: Quartet No.3 - (Under the auspices of the Fromm Music Foundation...
...increased in America around the turn of the century (probably as a result of the waves of immigration from central Europe), and not many Jews have rooted themselves as solidly in the Old Guard as August Belmont (1853-1924), whose name is a Franco-Anglicization of Schoenberg. Roman Catholics are solidly Old Guard in such Catholic-settled cities as New Or leans, St. Louis and Baltimore, but in heavily Catholic Boston they-and therefore the Kennedys-have been far more Out than...
Last week in Frankfurt, after Dixon conducted the Hessian Radio Orchestra in a program of Schoenberg, Debussy and Mozart, the ovation he got only echoed what critics have been saying in print that in his first season at the head of the orchestra, Dixon has made the musicians play "as if transformed." For all his flair, Dixon is no fancy...