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...calls for improvisation so personal that each musician plays his own carefree melody in his own key, in his own rhythm, developing his own harmonies. In ensemble, the results strike most ears as plain noise, but the devoted are reminded of such comparatively restrained innovators as Bartok and Schoenberg...
...about $25,000 a man (to which record royalties contribute about $5,000 apiece). Audiences still thrive on the standard 17th and 18th Century repertory, but the quartet has found some listeners eager for modern cacophonies and "deeper stuff," adds a smattering here & there of late Beethoven, Bartok and Schoenberg. Four U.S. composers whose music has been added to the repertory this year: Lukas Foss, Quincy Porter, Walter Piston and Samuel Barber. Television? Not yet, says Spokesman Schneider. "Why would people want to sit in the living room and see only four men sitting on chairs pulling bows? But gradually...
...Handel-Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (Janssen Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). A somewhat colorless concerto grosso (Op. 6, No. 7) is brought to surprising life. Schoenberg expanded and enriched it with some sonorities Handel never dreamed of, but retained enough Handel to pacify any startled classicists. Performance and recording: good...
Died. Arnold Schoenberg, 76, famed composer, pedagogue and musical theorist, inventor of the twelve-tone system; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles (see Music...
...thing Composer Schoenberg felt he did know: eventually his music would be accepted. Said he: "It must be heard oftener." In Los Angeles last week, Arnold Schoenberg, 76, full of age and illness, left his music and his reputation in the hands of history...