If you have read a few of the previous entries, you may have guessed by now that this blog, entitled simply "Schoenberg," is not just about Schoenberg-the-composer or Schoenberg-the-painter or Schoenberg-the-thinker or even about Schoenberg-the-man. It is meant to be about Schoenberg-the-Idea. It is meant to be taken and used as a token or pointer or, better, a kind of springboard. This project ~ a work in progress ~ will take some time to unfold.
There will continue to be entries here with Schoenberg's music (always his music!) as well as the music of others ~ and a few words about that music from time to time that are calculated more to stir your interest in listening than merely to "inform" you. But "the real meaning" of this blog is intended to point to connections. Well beyond Schoenberg's music, many things which he experienced and expressed a century ago remain vital concerns today, not just in the little corner of the world called music that you and I inhabit, but in our entire fragmented, centerless culture.
Now back to work. Here's a brief interlude while I finish the next entry :
Arnold Schoenberg
String Quartet No.2 Mvt.4
Margaret Price (1941-2011), soprano
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