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Schoenberg owes his survival to crime drama

26 October 2024

9:00 AM

26 October 2024

9:00 AM

Schoenberg: Reshaping Tradition

Queen Elizabeth Hall

George Gershwin once made a home movie of Arnold Schoenberg grinning in a suit on his tennis court in Beverly Hills but, sadly, never filmed one of their weekly matches. According to one observer, the composer of ‘I Got Rhythm’ played with languid strokes in a ‘nonchalant and chivalrous’ manner against the ‘choppy, over eager’ strokes of the creator of Erwartung.

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