Arnold Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (Excerpts, 1 of 2)
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the most beautiful and when they issue the instruments
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@Marg002 Well, musically I prefer Gielen's version for the Straub/Huillet film, but to my mind suitcases make perfect sense when you're fleeing from Egypt.
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Boulez is a great composer and conductor
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Totally wacked! I love it! This was/is cutting edge material.
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unsichtbarer und unvollsterbarer Gott...
the most beatiful libretto of xx century
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@Varese52 I've never heard it put better than that. My thoughts exactly.
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So,,,,, where is the Burning Bush? How are we supposed to comprehend what's going on? Plus it's VERY, VERY slow. How many European stagings have I seen now where everyone is in trenchcoats and carrying suitcases? Basta. I wish there were videos of the Met/NY production.
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Da macht auch meine Musik Lehrerin mit ^^
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I'm sorry for those who can't see the greatness in Schoenberg's music and his theatre. I saw this opera as a totally unprepared (and unbiased) 17 year old: I fell in love with it.
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@revoltz7 Even if Moses und Aaron were the only serial composition ever written it would still be a masterpiece, nobody writes in Flemish polyphonic technique today either, so what? didn't you ever hear that quantity doesn't make quality, being integrated into popular culture what does that mean?... have Beethoven's late quartets been integrated into popular culture? or Gesualdo's madrigals?
People were NEVER quick to support serial music. It has been subjected to the worst kind of invective since it was initially unveiled in the twenties. Some composers realized that it offered an alternative to what they considered the artificial extension of tonality, i.e. neoclassicism. But most often, those who refuse to accept total chromaticism have rejected it as "intellectual", ignoring the fact that ALL art is intellectual. Serialism is no more mathematical than a Bach fugue.
Varese52 2 years ago 14
This is GREAT!
luisiege2 1 year ago 4