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Founded in 1951, the Moscow Philharmonic is Russia's youngest major orchestra. Under the tutelage of Kondrashin, now 51, the Philharmonic specializes in the early classics, contemporary Soviet composers and what the Russians call modern music: Hindemith, Poulenc, Mahler. As for Schoenberg and his successors, Kondrashin says flatly: "Nyet! This is not music. This is noise." He drills his young (average age: 35) musicians four to six hours a day. He admires U.S. orchestras for their happy blend of "German discipline and a French kind of freedom." But as a loyal Communist, he has decried their artistic and financial...
...suicide he wrote to his dealer: "I haven't got the strength to finish my paintings." A few days later, he began the largest canvas 13 ft. by 20 ft.) that he had ever painted. It was an attempt to translate his emotions upon hearing a concert of Schoenberg's and Webern's music. He never finished...
...IVES: FOURTH SYMPHONY (Columbia). Charles Ives once said, "I found out I could not go on using the familiar chords early. I heard something else." Indeed he did, and as a virtual recluse who had never heard a note of Schoenberg, he set down his inner music, delving into dissonance and polytonality in 1916. The work was not played until 50 years after it was written, and this first recording by Leopold Stokowski and the American Symphony Orchestra celebrates the long-delayed recognition of a major composer...
Among other things, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg called for camels, donkeys, onstage animal butchery and sex orgies with naked virgins to complement his twelve-tone melodies in 1932's Moses and Aaron. Schoenberg himself once said that the opera is "undoable," but now a plucky band of Britons led by Royal Shakespeare Theater Director Peter Hall, 34, has decided to stage it at London's Covent Garden. First off, Sheena the camel smashed one set in rehearsal, put her foot through another, had to be dropped from the cast. That left the donkeys, etc. Then the censors...
...differently. As it was, Tristan signaled the birth of a new art form that changed the course of music. His music dramas, substituting daring harmonies and emotionally charged leitmotifs for set-piece arias, marked the end of "poetic" opera, and paved the way for such pioneers as Debussy and Schoenberg...