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...with the Civil War ("It's a disease"). It is also the latest experiment "creative" in his approach to the continuing search recording for business. Over the last 15 years, Lieberson has won a reputation for adventurous programming. Soon after his arrival, Columbia released such radical items as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Bartok's Contrasts, and continued to rack up first recordings of modern masterpieces, e.g., Berg's Violin Concerto, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata. Gradually, Columbia built a stable of its own name artists (Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Joseph Szigeti), and created...
...play and marry famed Dancer Vera Zorina. Lately, he spends less and less time in the glass-fronted control booth supervising recording sessions, more and more behind his desk thinking up new ideas. Although he recorded Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and all the quartets of Schoenberg and Bartok, Lieberson discovered gradually that "it is becoming almost bourgeois to do contemporary music-everybody's doing it now." It is also too expensive for a major company to take a chance on unknown modern composers. At the same time, recordings of well-known music are almost choking each...
...nine, was appearing in recitals and concerts at 14. But his mother wanted him to be a doctor, and he dutifully set out on a scientific education in Los Angeles (where the family moved in 1928). But music had him beguiled, particularly after he first heard compositions by Arnold Schoenberg. "A lecturer had described Schoenberg's work, all about the twelve-tone scale. As I listened I became frightened-afraid that if I listened to this strange music I might never be the same. Then, a night later, I forced myself to go to a concert of Pierrot Lunaire...
...Somehow, I didn't feel I had the constitution to be a concert artist," he says now. "That's a terribly demanding life, you know. You go insane trying to reach perfection." From Schoenberg ("an extremely articulate, extraordinarily precise man") Kirchner had learned that "any great teacher tries to teach you the why of things-not just chords, but 'why' chords. He teaches you how to extend music in time.'' Later, Kirchner studied with Ernest Bloch, learning from the noted composer "to respect the use, the real function, of materials." His next teacher...
...submit to the law: Apollo demands it." he has written.) For the first time he has based complete movements and works upon a determined succession (or row) of tones; yet he does not necessarily use 12 tones in the row nor abandon a tonal center in the manner of Schoenberg...