Webern’s music was revolutionary, but did not become widely accessible until Craft directed this series of recordings In the decades after the second world war it was the music of Anton Webern, rather ...

“This is a song for you alone”: such is the invitational opening line of the first of five songs set to Stefan George poems (Op. 3) by Anton Webern (1883-1945). It’s one of thirty-one works in which ...

The symphonic principle, as we've been discovering, can take in a gigantic range of interpretations; from Berio's centrigufal sounding together of a world of reference, history and allusion, to the ...

Bundling scary modern music with the warhorses audiences love is one of the oldest tricks in the concert-programming book. But it's rare to see it taken to such extremes as in this week's San ...

Grab your pencils, notebooks, and binders and head back to school with Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ernst Krenek, and Alban Berg. As the academic year begins, Music in the Making returns to the ...

Long before developing his distinctively sparse, crystalline approach to Schoenberg’s 12-tone technique, Anton Webern was an up-and-comer writing in a late Romantic style whose expressive lushness ...

Anton Webern: "Someone once said that in Webern's music, a novel would last as long as a sigh, and there's a love story in every trill… He tried to reduce it to its essence." Seventy years ago this ...

In January 1961, a glamorous 24-year-old Zubin Mehta, who was already taking classical music by storm, made his West Coast debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Included in those L.A. Phil programs ...

A Chamber Evening With Webern And Schumann on Friday was the first of two concerts devoted to the music of Anton Webern and Robert Schumann by faculty and students of Yong Siew Toh Conservatory with ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Gustavo Dudamel, in town for three weeks of concerts with the Los ...