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...surest way to make an impression on fellow concertgoers is to bring a score and silently read along during the performance. In a recital at Manhattan's Town Hall last week, Canadian Violinist Hyman Bress threatened to render this excellent ploy obsolete. Behind him, as he played Schoenberg's Fantasy Opus 47, the twelve pages of the score were projected on a screen...
...opera got a mixed reception but obviously held its audience. It also breathed new life into the career of Composer Zillig, 55, a pupil of Schoenberg's who was once regarded as one of Germany's major talents. Other West German stages have already signed to produce Sacrifice, and next season it may be presented in London, penguins...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT--a program of recorded classical music, today featuring. Resphigi Brazilian Impressions Borodin-Quartet No. 2; Mozart-Piano Concerto No. 16, K. 451; Schutz-St. Matthew Passion; Schoenberg-Violin Concerto; Beethoven-Quartet No. 1, Op. 18, No. 1; Handel-Trio Sonata...
Although an early admirer of Wagner ("Richie Wagner did get away occasionally from doh, me, so," he wrote, "which was more than some others did"), Ives realized that he himself could not express what he wanted to say within the romantic tradition. Long before Schoenberg, Stravinsky and other modernists, he experimented with ragtime rhythms and dissonance. A practical man, he also recognized that there was no public for that kind of music, and he was far too inde pendent to try to change his style. Some time before he married his wife, Harmony, he decided that rather than "starve...
...less (most of his major works were written before 1920) and withdrew increasingly from the outside world. He rarely would see visitors at his house in West Redding, never read a newspaper, refused to own either a radio or a phonograph. He was not even aware that in Europe, Schoenberg and his disciples were creating a new musical language, having independently attempted many of the experiments that Ives had performed so long before. But gradually, word of Ives's work spread among musicians, and his difficult compositions began to be heard. An astounded Paris critic summed up his achievement...