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...ancestor -- my very own personal ancestor," his words are shredded, sliced, diced, pureed by a live vocal quartet and set to the implied, inherent music of his speech rhythms and intonation, accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble. In works such as the 1912 Pierrot lunaire, Arnold Schoenberg invented the device of sprechstimme, or speech-song; in The Cave Reich has perfected the principle and built an entire work upon...
During the 1930s, a steady stream of composers and performers fled Nazi Germany in the wake of Hitler's Kulturkampf. Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer and other purveyors of "degenerate art" found a safe haven in the U.S. Gentile and Jew alike, they contributed immeasurably to the development of music in America. But what of those not so lucky as to escape? What talents were consigned to the flames of the Holocaust? The fascinating and moving new CD Silenced Voices offers poignant witness to what was -- and what might have been...
Indeed, he's something of a square. A self-described "uptight, serialism- oriented, would-be intellectual," Salonen was educated as a composer in his native Helsinki, in the manner of such daunting dodecaphonists as Arnold Schoenberg, Luigi Nono and Elliott Carter. His conducting career began as an adjunct to his composing at the Sibelius Academy, but it took off in 1983 when he stepped in for Michael Tilson Thomas on a week's notice to lead the London Philharmonia in Mahler's woolly mammoth, the Symphony No. 3 -- despite the fact that prior to the call he had never even...
Boston Symphony Orchestra--performs Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande, and Sibelius' Symphony No. 2. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. Thursday, March 5, 8 p.m. $19-$52.50. Call 266-1492 for tickets...
...Turk feels that our 15 minutes of semi-tonal music a week is too "intrusive" for her tastes, we can only wonder what she would have us do about those musicians in the Square who send forth often poorly executed renditions of Debussy, Ornette Coleman, and even Schoenberg? Should these musicians not be allowed to play...