by Matt Friedman | 25 Apr 2016 | Playlists
Gyorgy Ligeti, Requiem, Hessian Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Michael Gielen LigetI: Requiem/Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures, WERGO – WER 60045-50 George Antheil, Ballet Mécanique, Ensemble Modern Fighting the Waves: Music of George Antheil, BMG...
by Matt Friedman | 17 Apr 2016 | Essays
Outrage flooded into the aisles of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées on the night of 29 May 1913, and spilled into the streets of Paris’s 8e Arrondissement. The premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, a new ballet staged by Sergei Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes,...
by Matt Friedman | 11 Apr 2016 | Podcasts
Modernists in exile in America. From left to right: Violinist Rudolf Kolisch, conductor George Szell, Max Horkheimer, violinist Felix Khuner (squatting), Arnold Schönberg, Hanns Eisler, an unidentified person, and pianist Eduard Steuermann. Click play for the...
by Matt Friedman | 11 Apr 2016 | Playlists
Arnold Schoenberg, Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23, Walzer, Peter Hill Berg/Schoenberg/Webern: Piano Music, Naxo – 8.553870 Igor Stravinsky, Octet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Stravinsky: Shadow Dances, Deutsche Grammophon – 453 458-2 Arnold Schoenberg,...
by Matt Friedman | 28 Mar 2016 | Podcasts
The ensemble following the premier performance of Pierrot Lunaire in 1912. Albertine Zehme is at center, with Schoenberg to her right. Click play for the first episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. “Moondrunk: Pierrot Lunaire at the Edge of Modernity”...
