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Alban Berg's Violin Concerto will be played by Louis Krasner in its first American performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at this week's concerts. Berg, a disciple of the famous exiled German composer, Schoenberg, wrote this particular work while deeply affected by the death of one of his closest friends, Manon Gropius, the stepdaughter of Gustav Mahler. This concerto, while a requiem for her, is also the composer's swan-song for he died soon after. A great reputation has preceded this last effort of Berg, and it should prove significant...
...concert which he will give here, in the Lowell House Common Room, Mr. DeGray will present a program ranging from Bach to Schoenberg. Three outstanding numbers to be heard are Capriccio, opus 76, no. 8, by Brahms; Ballade in F minor, Chopin; and Sonata, opus 110, by Beethoven. The concert is open to all members of the University...
...student skips a hundred years, but faints away on the cold floor of the stacks when he finds no English composers except a little Vaughan Williams and Holst; none of the Italian, Malipiero; no scores of the Hungarians, Bela Bartok and Kodaly; no modern German or Austrian except Schoenberg; some Russians, but no Prokofleff. The final shock comes when he finds modern America represented solely by MacDowell and Foote. Upon regaining his senses, the poor student borrows what he can from the private collection of his tutor, the pages of whose music are already falling apart from being loaned...
...Manhattan job with the law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed where she had taken dictation from Count Rene when he worked in their office. Sailing for Paris, she got a job with Count René before proceeding to surprise her parents. Last week she arrived at Schoenberg, a tiny German customs depot on the Saar border and, as usual, said what she conscientiously thinks...
...everyone knows, there are really five Marx brothers. They are descended from a Hanoverian magician and ventriloquist named Lafe Schoenberg, who toured Germany for 50 years, carrying his scenery, tricks, wife & three children in a roofed wagon. Mrs. Schoenberg played the harp between Lafe Schoenberg's tricks. In 1860, the Schoenbergs emigrated to the U. S. Lafe Schoenberg died in Chicago in 1919. He was 101. One of his sons, Al Schoenberg, a tailor's assistant who was frequently discharged for his habit of organizing noisy quartets, took to singing on the stage. He chose the name...