Zwölftonwerbung - Twelve tone commercial

Die Zwölftonmethode - totgeschwiegen und totgeredet, geliebt und verehrt, verhasst und verdammt - ist eine jener Mysterien der Musikgeschichte, die unser Leben wie kein anderes in den Bann ungeahnter tönender Dimensionen zu ziehen vermag. Lassen wir uns erklären, wie unser Alltag durch Anhörung der herausragenden atonalen und dodekaphonen Werke von Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg und Anton Webern eine höhere Dimension erlangt. Die Metaphysik der Töne - in ein einziges Album gebannt. Nie war diese Musik zwingender als jetzt. Suchtgefahr!
Audio: a production, done in 1977 by Robert Conrad, the founder of WCLV classical radio in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The script was written by conductor Kenneth Jean and Mathias Bamert is said to have had a role in the production.
Video: ascvideo (Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien)

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[Emily Wright]

I love all of it. The actual music. The making fun of the music. The fighting over the making fun of the music.

[yohanfish]

It was an April fools joke made with Matthias Bamert when he was in Cleveland!

[Ramon Sender]

Why twelve tones? According to a famous Sufi

arithmatician:

“Zero is where the Real Fun starts. There’s too much counting

 everywhere else!” –

Hafiz

(David Ladinsky, translater

MORE ZERO, PLEASE!

[Joan Sutton]

too funny

[jamesaellis]

Lulu is a staggering work...

[Mad Musicologist]

This is not a fun at the expense of dodekaphony, but at the avarage muzak listener.

[moondoggyJ55]

hahahah so fucking true

[Anders Nilsson]

one of my absolute favorites! ;-))))

[tibbiemac]

Is it actually making fun, or being ironic?

[lispectorando]

What did you expect from Ohio?

[carminum]

Hilarious!

My favorite moment: the couple at 01:50...

[Richard McQuillan]

This is absolutely brilliant! Thank you.