Mahler 6 Scherzo as war music:
Gettin’ Wuchtig wit’ it.
And the Wuchtig Clan ain’t nichts zu wuchts mit.
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February 19, 2013
October 5, 2012
September 23, 2012
As scanning errors go, this one yearns for the post-modern toolkit: a Beethoven sonata movement (op. 26/iii, 1801) supplanted by a scene from Weber’s Der Freischütz (1821).
Found in Google’s scan of Harvard’s copy of the Harmonicon (1832).
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September 15, 2012
Autumnal Elegy
“The composer had been residing in Mödling since 1919, after moving there from Vienna for only one reason: to be near his idol, Arnold Schönberg. When the Master had moved to Berlin early in 1926, his apostles, as he was fond of calling them, had begun clinging to one another, and so Webern had become a frequent visitor at our apartment. Indeed, my brother and I could recognize him coming down the street at a distance and had invented a nickname for him, der Herbst (Mr. Autumn) because of his perpetually sour expression.”
Arnold Greissle-Schönberg | http://schoenbergseuropeanfamily.org
Anton Webern: Inadvertently
killed in the aftermath of WWII,
15 September 1945.
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July 24, 2012
Oh, Xenia.
A youthful first marriage didn’t work out so well for Xenia Andreyevna Kashevaroff Cage, who separated from John Cage soon after this concert chronicled by Time in March 1943, but man was she a trooper. She went on to have a fine career in collage and book arts. #respect.
May 31, 2012
The Theremin. Was any other modern instrument this cool?
May 10, 2012
The intersection of the avant grade aestheticism and the marketing of early technology adoption. Irony: this particular intersection remains in the shadows of history.
Source: Powell, A. L. The Coordination of Light and Music. Nela Park, Cleveland: Engineering Dept., Edison Lamp Works, National Lamp Works, General Electric Co, 1930. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1724727
April 29, 2012
This is unbelievable.
Source: East, Emma T. Musical Strings and Pharmaceuticals, Written for the Children of America. Chicago, Ill: Armour’s Bureau of Agricultural Research and Economics, 1919. Print. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270770661
The next part is gross. Read on at archive.org.
April 23, 2012
Charles Hanssens père (1777-1852). Composer, conductor, would-be Opéra Fantôme, and one-time director of the Brussels Conservatoire.
Ever fay or super fly?
April 15, 2012
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