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...remaining items on the program were three works for solo piano, played by Bruce Archibald. Schoenberg's Six Short Piano Pieces, Opus 19 (1911), come from a period when the composed was tired of post-Romanticism but had not yet concretized his twelve-tone technique. After close acquaintance, they still impressed me as no more than undergraduate improvisation despite Archibald's careful rendition...
Monday, August 10: 8:30 p.m., concert, "Songs and Piano Music of the Twentieth Century," Dorothy and John Crawford, Bruce Archibald, featuring works by Debussy, Bartok, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Webern, in Sanders Theatre...
August 10: Dorothy Crawford, soprano; John Crawford and Bruce Archibald, pianists. Music by Bartok, Schoenberg, Webern, Debussy, and Stravinsky...
...firmly that, "Modern music and, specifically, atonal composition seems to me to be a logical development from the experimentation of Wagner and Strauss. After all there are many passages in Wagner where there is extended tonal ambiguity. From this, it is just a small step before one asks, as Schoenberg did, 'Why not do away with the concept of a key altogether...
Wolff's solution involves a number of techniques, the most important of which deals with an extension of the row idea. In Schoenberg and Webern only pitch is set in order. Now the concept of "total organization" puts other musical materials into a row: dynamics, time, tonecolor all have their own rows, frequently connected with one another...