Word: schbnberg
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...given world premieres of David Diamond's Romeo and Juliet Suite, Norman Dello Joio's Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, Douglas Moore's Farm Journal (all commissioned by Scherman himself), and revived many a little-known smaller work by Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Stravinsky and Schbnberg. He has no fear of running out of things to play. Digging around in the "terrific repertoire," he has found enough worthwhile but unfamiliar music to keep going "for the next ten years...
...from the Princeton Glee Club, Philadelphia's Fortnightly Club and the Mendelssohn Club; an orchestra of 125 pieces, six soloists and Conductor Stokowski, for whom there appears to be no musical enterprise too colossal.† Philadelphians approached it doubtfully. They were wary of Stokowski's modernistic mood. Schbnberg's awful, shrieking Die Glückliche Hand was still in their minds (TIME, April 28, 1930). But Gurrelieder proved to be neither ear-splitting nor bewildering. It began like Wagner in his tenderest mood, Wagner as tie described the forest murmurs in Siegfried, the love of Tristan...