This is Schoenberg for people who fear Schoenberg

This is Schoenberg for people who fear Schoenberg

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norman lebrecht

June 23, 2015

A US orchestral manager told me the other day that nothing chills the box-office in 2015 like Arnold Schoenberg’s name on the programme. More than a century after his first notoriety, Schoenberg is fixed in the public mind as a kind of musical emetic, a foul-tasting medicine you take to cure a bad digestion.

It doesn’t have to be like that. My Album of the Week on sinfinimusic.com is not exactly Schoenberg for Dummies, but the kind of thing you could take a bank manager along to without fear of default.

Click here and all will be clear.

arnold-schoenberg smoking

You know it’s good for you.

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