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...Atonalist Anton von Webern's whispering, taut vignettes, Five Movements for String Quartet...
Uphill Fight. I.S.C.M. did that, and more. In its annual festivals, it helped spread the news (and the international reputations) of such men as Twelve-Ton-ists Arnold Schoenberg, Anton von Webern and Alban Berg, France's Darius Milbaud and Olivier Messiaen, Italy's Luigi Dallapiccola, the U.S.'s Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland...
...musicians try to schedule at least one Los Angeles "first" for every concert. This sometimes leads them into fairly deep musical waters (e.g., unfamiliar works by Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Anton von Webern). They do not give a hoot for the critics. The Roof's printed programs run a back-page column of critical comments, listed under two headings, "Figs" and "Thistles." Sample thistles on the back page last week: "Dull Roof Concert Dredges Up Bores" (Los Angeles Times); "Within the seven minutes it takes to perform, [a quartet by Webern] is spare, economical, terse and austere, and seven...
Most relentless Atonalist was gloomy, bald-headed Arnold Schöberg, who in his time influenced at least half the younger composers of Europe. Other eminent Atonalists, all Schöberg disciples: Anton von Webern, who wrote orchestral pieces like the slight whine of a determined mosquito; the late Alban Berg, who wrote the atrabilious opera Wozzeck; Ernest Krenek, who once relapsed so far into cheerfulness as to write an imitation jazz opera called Johnny Spielt...
...were twelve of the world's best-known chamber-music players, the famed Roth, Gordon and Kolisch Quartets. On the list of new quartets and quintets to be chambered were recent works by U. S. Composers Frederick Jacobi and Louis Gruenberg, Austrian Composers Ernst Toch and Anton von Webern, British Composer Frank Bridge...