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Wholly Moses: Peter G. Davis on his lifelong fascination with Schoenberg's Moses und Aron.
I've given up trying to convince skeptics that I fell hard for Schoenberg's Moses und Aron the very first time I heard it, at age eighteen. Not possible, they say. Even if someone actually does claim to enjoy this fabled, thorny score--the first opera to be composed according to strict twelve-tone procedures, and still a jumble of dissonant cacophony to many tender souls--it would surely take constant exposure to the music, numerous performances and repeated playings of the available recordings before anyone could claim aural enlightenment, let alone make an outright declaration of love.
Well, perhaps. No imposing work of art reveals all its secrets at once, ...
- Moses und Aron.(Review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Johnson, Lawrence A. May 1, 1999 700+ words
Moses und Aron, by Arnold Schoenberg, at the Chicago...performances of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron that took place at the Met and in Chicago...The cso has had more experience with Moses und Aron than most American orchestras, Sir...
- CLASSICAL MUSIC Moses und Aron RFH, London
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Stephen Johnson October 29, 1996 700+ words
An ugly little scene prefaced the Festival Hall Moses und Aron on Sunday evening. The conductor, Christoph von Dohnanyi...evening made up for the unpleasant start. But this Moses und Aron was a mixed experience: successful in parts, but a...
- Leipzig to bring 'Moses und Aron'
- Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post Michael Ajzenstadt July 18, 1995 700+ words
...important operas of the 20th century, Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron. Most of the finances have already been finalized and...nothing goes awry, local audiences will be able to see Moses und Aron at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center next May. Copyright...
- Moses und Aron
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Moses und Aron. Opera in 2 acts (3rd uncompleted) by Schoenberg; text by the composer, after the Book of Exodus. Prem. Zurich 6 June 1957...
- Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
- Magazine article from: Opera News Smith, Patrick J December 28, 1996 700+ words
...well as its vigor, and thanks to Boulez and the recording engineers, the orchestral lines are clearly delineated. Moses und Aron can come across as a powerful mush or as a dead piece of avantgarde music-making; here it is revealed as the granitic...
- At last, the promised land?
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Coleman, Alexander May 1, 1999 700+ words
...Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron was broadcast to an audience noted...years after its composition, Moses und Aron is still a barrage of sound...himself never heard any part of Moses und Aron performed. Promises were made...
- Music: The numbers game that doesn't add up
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Michael White November 3, 1996 700+ words
...Dramatis personae of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron reads like the record of a police...no doubt, is one reason why Moses und Aron was never finished. The project...It follows that stagings of Moses und Aron are rare, and even concert performances...
- Moses: a tough act to follow
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Stephen Johnson October 6, 1995 700+ words
...Schoenberg was concerned, his opera Moses und Aron was unfinished. The story of...Wednesday night can make you wonder if Moses und Aron is any more "unfinished" than...electrifying and emotionally searing. Moses und Aron isn't comfortable listening...