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Dinosaur Annex--works of Babbitt, Grainger, Lister, Savage, Wheeler, Johson, and Schoenberg; Institute of Contemporary...
Works of Berio, Carter, Messiah, Gerhard, Martino, Antoniou, and Schoenberg--Institute of Contemporary...
...more and more secure. It rests on two complex, powerful works, Wozzeck and Lulu, that in effect brought opera into the 20th century. Lulu, in particular, packed traditional operatic emotion and drama into the most advanced of forms, the twelve-tone system devised by Berg's teacher, Arnold Schoenberg...
...practiced listener cannot take in all these subtleties. But anyone can feel them - and feel is the word. Faithful as he was to the atonal vision of his mentor Schoenberg, Berg never left behind the yearning romanticism of Mahler and Wagner. Lulu retains a spontaneous, passionate life of its own. In projecting that passionate life musically, if not always dramatically, the Paris production presented a modern masterpiece on its rightful scale...
Works of Haydn and Schoenberg at Longy School of Music, 1 Follen St., Cambridge, at 8:30 p.m. Admission $2. Call 868-3228 for details...