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...recordings made recently of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Alban Berge's Violin Concer-to bring to this country for the first time in permanent form two of the greatest works by two of the greatest modern composers. For those who have known Schoenberg only through an early work--the mawkish puddle of Post-Romantic sentimentality known as Verklarte Nacht--the recording of Peirrot Lunaire demands a re-estimation of his true greatness--and weakness...
...Schoenberg's music to Albert Girand's fantastical poems entitled Pierre Lunaire is the last word in cacophony and musical anarchy. Some day it may be pointed out as of historical interest, because it represents the turning point, for the outraged muse surely can endure no more of this. Such noise must drive even the moonstruck Pierrot back to the realm of real music. Albertine Zehme . . . repeated the poems while a musical, or rather, unmusical ensemble . . . discoursed the most car splitting combination of tones ever to desecrate the walls of a Berlin music hall...
Whatever one may think of this slick, glib disposal of a serious composition, it is impossible to deny that even after a lapse of thirty years. Pierrot is a formidable thing to listen to. It is one of the purest examples of atonal music ever composed by Schoenberg or any of his pupils, which is not to say that it is the last word in musical anarchy, but only that it represents in the language of notes what Finnegan's Wake does in the language of words, or Guernica in painting a dissolution of the old formal bases...
Richard R. Davidson '41, Thomas Lacey 2nd '41, John H. Page '43, James J. Redmon '42, Thomas A. Rogstad '43, Theodore E. Schoenberg '41 (Captain), Raymond W. Stone '42, Richard N. Thomas '42, Arthur W. Kincade, Jr. '41 (Manager...
Points on the plus side of the docket were won by Ted Schoenberg, who repeated his last year's performance and garnered second place in the 121-pound bracket, and Tom Rogstad, who was defeated in the semi-finals in the heavy-weight class...