Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zubin Mehta conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder" Friday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall. (Carlin ...

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The performances of Schoenberg’s last lingering celebration of late romantic luxuriance that Markus Stenz conducted in Cologne a year ago were his final concerts as chief conductor of the Gürzenich ...

How fitting that the opening concert of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Philharmonia series “City of Dreams: Vienna 1900-1935” should conclude with the mightiest wake-up call in all music. Fitting because an ...

At the turn of the 20th century, when the three-century period of tonal music was winding down, composers often wrote huge works requiring exceptionally large numbers of performers. Wagner's operas ...

It would be hard to come up with a more radically divisive major composer than Arnold Schoenberg, who was born in Vienna in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1951. It would be equally hard to come up ...