Arnold Schoenberg

Review: Kay Larson's inspirational 'Where the Heart Beats'

2012-07-22 00:00:00

-------------------- Where the Heart Beats John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists Kay Larson Penguin: 477 pp., $29.95 -------------------- In the late 1940s and early 1950s, composer John Cage underwent related crises in his...

Israel Baker, renowned violinist, dies at 92

2012-01-09 00:00:00

As concertmaster for the orchestra that recorded the soundtrack for the movie "Psycho," classical violinist Israel Baker helped create a piece of pop culture that is regarded as one of Hollywood's most terrifying. He led the piercing attack of the violins...

NEH grants $1.4 million in California; funds small-venue exhibits

2011-12-02 16:32:54

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 7, 1940

2010-12-07 16:32:56

Peter Lieberson dies at 64; American composer

2011-04-28 00:00:00

Peter Lieberson, an American composer who wrote his most inspired songs for his great love, the late mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, died Saturday of complications from lymphoma at a hospital in Tel Aviv, where he had been receiving treatment. He...

Ojai music director George Benjamin in a familiar spot

2010-05-30 00:00:00

George Benjamin undertook his first visit to Ojai last January, but in some ways, the trip must have seemed like a homecoming for the celebrated British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. The freak storms that pounded the normally bucolic...

L.A.'s 'Ring' circus

2009-07-18 00:00:00

Next spring, the Los Angeles Opera will stage its first complete production of Richard Wagner's monumental four-opera cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen." In conjunction with those performances, more than 70 arts, cultural and educational institutions will...

Philip Langridge dies at 70; versatile British tenor

2010-03-08 22:05:00

Philip Langridge, the British tenor who won praise for his vocal versatility and subtle characterization, has died. He was 70. Langridge died Friday after a short battle with cancer, the Royal Opera House announced. His death "leaves a large hole in the...

Music review: Gloria Cheng and Piano Spheres at Zipper Hall

2009-10-14 16:32:34

Berlin Philharmonic by way of the World Wide Web

2009-11-23 21:32:37

Eighth blackbird lands at Ojai Music Festival

2009-06-07 00:00:00

The Ojai Music Festival has a long tradition of picking some of the era's most important artists to serve as its music director, a position that rotates annually. But though the festival has sometimes chosen more than one person at a time for the job,...

Leon Kirchner dies at 90; Pulitzer-winning composer

2009-09-21 00:00:00

Leon Kirchner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of expressive, rigorous, atonal yet romantic music, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in New York. He was 90. A pianist and conductor as well as a composer, Kirchner stood somewhat...

Conductor emeritus Pierre Boulez�s contribution to the season's bicentennial focus on Wagner includes music by Wagner, Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg's formidable Violin Concerto, with Michael Barenboim, son of former CSO music director Daniel Barenboim, as violin soloist.

2012-02-06 13:38:24

The World gallery has photo montages featuring composer Arnold Shoenberg (in largest photo on the left) and Albert Einstein (large photo on the right). Arnold is the grandfather of museum President Randy Schoenberg.

2010-10-12 14:44:58

Arnold Schoenberg, 1973.

2009-12-29 21:25:10