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...much of the 20th century, many leading avant-garde composers have arranged their notes, rhythms and timbres according to predetermined schemes or series. Such major works as Arnold Schoenberg's Serenade and, more recently, Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maître have been serial compositions. Indeed no one has championed serialism more than has Boulez, the onetime enfant terrible of French music who is now the 47-year-old conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony. Yet there was Boulez in Manhattan last week introducing his new 31-minute composition . . . explosante/fixe . . . and conceding...
...SCHOENBERG, BERG, WEBERN: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS (DG, 5 LPs). A landmark of recorded chamber music by the La Salle Quartet...
Boston Symphony Chamber Players, performing works of Mozart, Hindermith, Schoenberg. Burden Hall, HBS. 8:30, May 21, $2.50, or $4 reserved...
...reading your article on Winthrop Sargeant, I was once again reminded of critics' serious misunderstanding of twelve-tone and serial music. The twelve-tone system does not merely express violence but rather expresses the value of abstraction. If we feel violent when listening to a work by Schoenberg, we are assigning meanings to that work that are not really there...
...calls for seven winds and string bass--all of which were first rate. There is some use of klangfarbenmelodie, the production of a melodic line with varied tone colors, but only with the instruments, not the chorus. The piece owes something to very late Stravinsky, though, and not to Schoenberg or Webern...