Saturday, December 22, 2007

schoenberg's five orchestral pieces

to read alex ross' the rest is noise: listening to the twentieth century is to experience a history of 20th century europe and 'meercuh through the prism of classical music: the fin de siecle vienna of richard strauss and mahler; the paris of stravinsky; the weimar berlin of kurt weill; the new york of gershwin and ellington; how music fared in stalin's russia, fdr's america, and hitler's germany (and i'm only halfway through the book). ross' webpage of sound samples is also pointing me toward things like this vid of arnold schoenberg's "five orchestral pieces," which includes images of the composer and his world along with the performers. will definitely be investigating more of this stuff in 2008 (when not listening to the stooges).



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Blogger Steve-O said...

I heard Ross on Bob Edwards' show the other day and I can't wait to read this book. Thanks for the blog link. I'm going to check it out.

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