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...does not like modern music and for the concert-goer who is looking for something different the Longy School's "Music of Today" series supplies an ideal remedy. Last Thursday, Gregory Tucker successfully presented the first of three concert-lectures devoted to contemporary music. The featured work was Arnold Schonberg's enigmatic Violin Concerto (Op. 36), the artists were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Krasner, and the result was one of the season's most important musical events...
...effect of atonality (or as Schonberg preferred to call it, "pantonality") is not particularly pleasing to the ear. The absence of all conventional melody, harmony, rhythm, and direction in the piece leaves a half hour of tenseness and doubts which are never fully resolved. And the vacillating, rhapsodic themes, occasionally broken by piquant pizzicatos and eerie glissandos, gave me a feeling of desolation throughout. Viewed in its entirety, the work is a lot more difficult to comprehend than its more lyrical sister concerto, by Alban Berg, and future performances would be most welcome. Two hearings of the concerto aren...
Died. Al Shean (real name: Albert Schonberg), 81, apple-cheeked, amiable comic favorite in the oldtime vaudeville team of ("Positively") Mr. Gallagher* & ("Absolutely") Mr. Shean, which wowed audiences in the '20s (they played 67 weeks in the 1923-24 Ziegfeld Follies^ made their 500-odd verses household jingles) ; in Manhattan. A veteran of 60 years in show business, German-born Al Shean first turned to legitimate theater in 1912 (he also made some 20 Hollywood films), scored his biggest Broadway hit 25 years later as the Benedictine monk in Father Malachy's Miracle...
...Music Club concert features composer pianist Louise Talma and Phyllis Curtin, soprano. The program includes a sonata for two planes by Claudio C. Spies '51, a suite by Randall Thompson, and some of the works of Arnold Schonberg...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Schonberg and Dvorak...