Schoenberg gets to Hollywood via an outlandish opera
There is a small and intriguingly personal sub-genre of operas about composers. Something is always up when one…
What is L.A.’s musical style? Schoenberg and Hear Now hold answers
The composer and critic Virgil Thomson once defined American music as music written by Americans. There is no…
Zubin Mehta still champions Arnold Schoenberg at the L.A. Phil
It would be hard to come up with a more radically divisive major composer than Arnold Schoenberg, who…