This Thursday, piano and composition students will celebrate the musical legacy of avant-garde composer Arnold Schoenberg. The concert, which is part of the ongoing celebration of the 150th ...
On Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m., world-renowned pianist Emanuel Ax will perform Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata and music by Schoenberg in Morse Recital Hall. The concert is part of the Horowitz ...
Schoenberg gave three reasons for orchestrating Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor: "1) I like this piece. 2) It is seldom played. 3) It is always played badly, because the better the pianist the ...
Emanuel Ax, one of the most beloved pianists of his generation, is as amiable and ebullient over the phone as he is onstage. Mention Glenn Gould’s live recording of Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto and Ax ...
It’s going to be a Stravinsky spring, right? The Los Angeles Philharmonic is about to kick off a two-week Stravinsky festival, Esa-Pekka Salonen celebrating Stravinsky’s association with the orchestra ...
On April 3, pianist Russell Sherman performs a Jordan Hall recital including Arnold Schoenberg’s Drei Klavierstücke (Op. 11). Composed in 1909, the three pieces pushed into radically expressive realms ...
In his 1952 manifesto Schoenberg is Dead, Pierre Boulez had many good things to say about the man who had shrugged off the overbearing tradition of tonality and invented the revolutionary 12-tone or ...