There was a time in American academia when, if you wanted to attain a bachelor’s degree in musical composition, you had to display a basic competence in the music of the Second Viennese School—of the ...
American composer George Rochberg, one of the central figures in the 1970s revolt against the modernist 12-tone technique of composition, died Sunday of complications after surgery May 2. He was 86.
After hearing Anton Webern's Five Pieces for String Quartet at Kirkland House on Tuesday, I had a hard time understanding why Vienna was scandalized when it first heard this work in 1913. For these ...
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