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Upshaw returned for slightly more modern music: Berg's Seven Early Songs, begun in the composer's twenty-first year. The music is motley, elusive stuff that manages to sound at times like Schumann and at others like Schoenberg. The poetry of the seven different poets is altogether better and fresher than the Schubert texts. Of special literary value is Rilke's text for the fourth song, "The Crown of Dreams," but the musical hair-raisers were the first ("Night") and seventh ("Summer Days"). In each, Upshaw's intonation and delivery etched certain phrases in the mind: "Gib acht" ("give...
...exiles most deeply affected by American culture were not painters at all but writers, musicians and directors, from Bertolt Brecht to Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Lubitsch and Thomas Mann, who gravitated to Los Angeles, worked fitfully but sometimes successfully for the movies and for a while between the Anschluss and the McCarthy years made that palmy city into an extension of the Berlin, the Vienna they had lost. "It is wonderful here on the Pacific, and life is a thousand times better here than in New York," wrote the great director Max Reinhardt to his son. "But I grew...
Emerging from two very separate traditions, Cecil Taylor's music is difficult to classify, beyond calling it sui generis. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Taylor draws deeply upon the twentieth-century European art music school of composers such as Bela Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky. However, his professional experience from an early age came in the jazz world, the network of bars and nightclubs where the African-American musical idiom was being developed...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Wittgenstein" at 4, 7:30 and 9 p.m. A humorous portrait of one of this century's most influential philosophers. Wittgenstein led an extremely dramatic, unconventional life. Born in the Vienna of Freud and Schoenberg, young Ludwig was a schoolmate of Adolf Hitler...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Wittgenstein" at 4, 7:30 and 9p.m. A humorous portrait of one of this century'smost influential philosophers. Wittgenstein led anextremely dramatic, unconventional life. Born inthe Vienna of Freud and Schoenberg, young Ludwigwas a schoolmate of Adolf Hitler...