Entertainment & Arts
The Austria-based Alban Berg Quartet has been forced to cancel its 15-date U.S. tour, which included concerts at Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, on Feb. 22 and the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, USC, Feb. 25.
Feb. 17, 1987
One of the last living pupils of Austrian composer Alban Berg has received permission to travel from Moscow to Vienna after a seven-year wait, the Austrian embassy in Moscow said Wednesday.
Dec. 17, 1987
Schubert has been much with us in his bicentennial year.
May 19, 1997
Leonard Rosenman’s terrific ‘Fantastic Voyage’ music owes a debt to Alban Berg, whose score transforms ‘Wozzeck.’
June 17, 2007
Louis Krasner, 91, a violinist who favored 20th-Century music and who premiered the Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg violin concertos.
May 6, 1995
A strong case of the blahs infected the local return by the Lausanne-based ensemble Quartet Sine Nomine Sunday afternoon. * The quartet’s well-prepared, strong program--consisting of Haydn’s Quartet in C, Opus 9, No. 1, the Opus 3 Quartet by Alban Berg and Beethoven’s Opus 130, with the “Grosse Fuge”--apparently could not help this attack of uneventfulness.
Feb. 15, 1994
A work for our time, Alban Berg’s expressionistic ‘Wozzeck’ unsettles with its atonalism and moral disorder.
April 16, 2007
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has been widening the boundaries of repertory a conductorless ensemble can handle ever since its founding in 1972.
Feb. 4, 1994
Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” which the Music Center Opera ventured on Thursday, represents an epochal fusion of theatrical pathos and musical profundity.
Dec. 3, 1988