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2022-10-03 14:16:11
Arnold Schoenberg, part IV, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: October 2, 2022. Schoenberg, Part IV, In America. This is the fourth, and – we promise – last installment of our notes on the great Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg. He arrived in the United States on October 31st of 1933 and spent the first year in Boston. He probably would’ve stayed longer but Boston’s weather made his asthma worse, and in September of 1934 Schoenberg moved to Los Angeles. He wrote to his friend, the conductor Fritz Stiedry, who was then working in the Soviet Union: "We are going to California for the climate and because it is cheaper (sic!)". He eventually settled in Brentwood and lived there for the rest of his life. To support himself, he gave private lessons (Oscar Levant was one of his students), but soon was invited to lecture at the University of Southern California. In 1936 he was made a […]
2018-06-18 17:40:00
[…] understand Bach if one understands Schoenberg.’ Alas, the musical world, like the world at large, is not always in the hands of those with ears and minds. In a modernist age, we need modernist Bach – which can take all manner of forms, certainly not to be restricted a priori. It is literalism that kills. Adorno thus commended Schoenberg’s Bach orchestrations along with Webern’s orchestration of the six-part Ricercare from the Musical Offering and Fritz Stiedry’s realization of the Art of Fugueas paragons of fidelity through infidelity to Bach’s music. The music was rethought rather than consigned to the researches of ‘philologists with no compositional ability,’ who would merely apportion the parts between individual instruments or groups of instruments. Modernist Bach takes its cue from Bach’s music, in that the ‘contradiction between music and sound-material,’ especially that between the Baroque organ and the ‘infinitely articulated structure,’ is acted upon, developed, […]
2016-10-11 14:00:16
Where the nuts come from
On this day in 1948 the Frank Loesser musical Where’s Charley opened on Broadway. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXBTFGIju_4 Born on this day in 1883 conductor Fritz Stiedry. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijdf6Fc5L10 Happy 88th birthday countertenor Russell Oberlin. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4gKDGJjGwU Happy 68th birthday tenor David Rendall. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmElR0uSd7Y Yom Kippur begins at sundown. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBXGIEUDKA
2016-09-23 09:20:27
Geh such dir die Stars vom vergangenen Jahr!
[…] the first two acts, but later she sang with greater freedom and security, and often with affecting beauty and communicative eloquence. 1950: The season and the eventful tenure of GM Rudolf Bing began with Verdi’s Don Carlo, featuring six notable debuts: sopranos Delia Rigal and Lucine Amara, mezzo Fedora Barbieri, bass Cesare Siepi, director Margaret Webster and designer Rolf Gérard. Jussi Björling, Robert Merrill and Jerome Hines completed the principal cast; Fritz Stiedry conducted. At this time, the opera itself could still be described as “Verdi’s gloomy and seldom-heard Don Carlo” (Max de Schauensee, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin). But Virgil Thomson was happy to see it back after a 27-year absence: [T]his ever-so-grand grand opera is perfectly suited to the space and paraphernalia possibilities of New York’s historic music theater. It is also a fine vehicle for musical display, and last night’s performance was not wanting in grandeurs […]
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