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Best Films from Oberhausen 1992. With Angela Haardt, director of the International Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Includes Anton Webern, Headrome, Lorenza and Time Being. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...cellist by craft, and the longhair (Hank Dutt) plays, appropriately, the viola. Along with violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, they form the Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze...
...Philharmonia--Dvorak, Webern, Brahms--Jordan Hall...
...Vienna there arose a second Viennese School that included Arnold Schoenberg, whose earliest music is the most listenable, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg. Their music is often contorted and bizarre, with very strong dissonances...
...schemes -- an important activity for a company director. The year 1992 stirs his imagination: What can he do about Columbus? Another quandary: How to get the troupe to Vienna so he can knock their socks off with a homage to the city featuring ballets set to Mozart, Strauss, Webern, Berg and others? Although the details are not yet final, City Ballet's next gala attraction will be a festival of American music...