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I always considered Arnold Schoenberg’s 12-tone, atonal music pretentious noise.
Oct. 28, 2001
In “In Thrall to the All-Powerful Patron” (Oct. 1), Mark Swed wrote that “. . . the theater once popularly known as Schoenberg Hall (although it never had an official name [italics mine]) was recently named Ostin Hall, after a much admired popular music recording executive, Mo Ostin, and his wife, Evelyn, donors to [UCLA’s] performing arts programs.”
Oct. 8, 2000
In the last years of his life, years spent in Los Angeles, Arnold Schoenberg wanted to respond to what he called “accusations of anarchy and revolution” made about him and his music.
March 24, 1991
Re “Sic Transit Schoenberg: The Melody Doesn’t Linger On,” Opinion, July 21: May I point out that Arnold Schoenberg did, in fact, write a piece for high school/university band: his “Theme and Variations in G Minor,” Op. 43A--an affable masterpiece in line with Brahms’ “Haydn Variations” and Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”
July 25, 1996
California
* Apparently, Ruben Martinez finds it somehow symbolic that UCLA’s Schoenberg Plaza has been appropriated and renamed “Plaza Aztlan” by Chicano activists (“The Emergence of L.A.’
June 15, 1993
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S JOURNEY, By Allen Shawn, Farrar, Straus & Giroux:, 272 pp., $26
Jan. 20, 2002
The first eight of the 29 pieces commissioned by the Arnold Schoenberg Institute (ASI) in the recent “Pierrot Project: Homage to ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ ” were given premiere performances Monday night at the institute.
Feb. 5, 1988
Arnold Schoenberg was a recent immigrant to California when he completed his technically daunting, emotionally riveting Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in 1936.
Oct. 24, 1991
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Oct. 7, 2011
Arnold Schoenberg was a great composer. The University of Southern California is a great university.
May 4, 1995