This show, first broadcast on June 10, 2016, examines the 1930s and 1940s, the last two decades of twelve-tone composition by Arnold Schoenberg, who permanently relocated to the United States in 1933. The show includes citations from Sabine Feisst’s superb book Schoenberg’s New World (2011, Oxford University Press), a groundbreaking study of Schoenberg’s American life and career. Schoenberg was a born pedagogue and taught an array of students in the States, most notably John Cage and Lou Harrison. Examples of Cage and Harrison working in the twelve-tone idiom are included, along with music in their mature styles. Harrison is also quoted from my own interview with him. Works played are:
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1936)
String Trio, Op. 45 (1946)
JOHN CAGE
Metamorphosis (1938)
Williams Mix (1953)
LOU HARRISON
Rapunzel, Act IV (1953, rev. 1996)
Main Bersama-sama (1978)
Link to:
Music: SFCR Radio Shows 2012–2018
For more on these composers, see:
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
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For more on John Cage, see:
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Music Book: Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers
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Music: SFCR Radio Show #8, Daoism in Western Music, part 1
Music: SFCR Radio Show #22, Neo-Classicism, part 3
Music: SFCR Radio Show #29, Electro-Acoustic Music, part 1: New Instruments
For more on John Cage and Lou Harrison, see:
Music Essay: The Beaten Path: A History of American Percussion Music
Music: SFCR Radio Show #19, The Percussion Ensemble
For more on John Cage and Arnold Schoenberg, see:
Music Lecture: “Intense Purity of Feeling”: Béla Bartók and American Music
For more on Lou Harrison, see:
Music Book: Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers
Music: SFCR Radio Show #30, A Century of Lou Harrison
For more on Arnold Schoenberg, see:
Music: SFCR Radio Show #23, A Tribute to Arnold Schoenberg
Music: SFCR Radio Show #27, 20th-Century Music on the March
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