Word: schonberger
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...usual assumption is that Schonberg rescued music from its careening plunge into the decadence of diatonic gigantism by his systematic formulation of the liberating discipline of dodecaphony. People tend to divide into apostles of either Schonberg-the-Savior or Schonberg-the-Antichrist. And so the apostolic succession of innovative geniuses passed from Bach to Beethoven to Wagner to Schonberg (or the Devil) and then to sleep. The common antinomy sets Schonberg against Stravinsky, coalescing all music into two schools in a priceless display of Manichaean passion. Schonberg is seen as the seminal prime mover, and Stravinsky [and to a lesser...
...mile. The best of Belmont has been retained and refurbished, including the paddock sheltered by a well-trussed, 140-year-old white pine. The new grandstand quarters for the exclusive Turf and Field Club would have been approved by the track's namesake, August Belmont (ne Schonberg), who once declared: "Racing is for the rich...
Scornful Blasts. Along the way, he has blasted the work of most of his colleagues, including such contemporary reviewers as the New York Times's Harold Schonberg ("vulgarity and offensiveness"), and The New Yorker's Winthrop Sargeant ("deficiencies of critical perception, judgment and taste"). Recently, he wrote scornfully that Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing is "a bully" whose "monstrosities" prove him to be "not only without understanding of the special requirements of opera but without taste...
Some individuals learned to live with anti-Semitic snobbery, others out-snobbed the snobs. Banker August Belmont, born Schonberg, desperately wanted membership in Manhattan's exclusive, all-Gentile Union Club. So in 1848 he crossed the line and married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of the commodore. He got his membership. In more recent years, there was a good deal of studied superiority directed by the "old" Jewish arrivals toward the newer immigrants. In 1950, a granddaughter of Felix Warburg, the legendary bon vivant, yachtsman, polo player, art collector and philanthropist, married Robert W. Sarnoff; in some quarters, the groom...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "Toscanini: the Maestro Revisited" commemorates the 100th birthday anniversary of Arturo Toscanini with excerpts from symphony telecasts, home movies and comments on his approach to his art by Conductors George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, Erich Leinsdorf and Milton Katims. Harold Schonberg narrates...