Music and Migration: The Reinvention of Arnold Schoenberg

Phone: 202-387-2151
Venue: <a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=The+Phillips+Collection%2C+1600+21st+St+NW%2C+Washington%2C+DC+20009&amp;z=16&amp;hl=en'>The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20009

Name: Music and Migration: The Reinvention of Arnold Schoenberg
Start: Thu, August 15, 2019 – 6:30 pm
Location: The Phillips Collection

Thu, August 15, 2019 – 6:30 pm

In conjunction with the Phillips’s exhibition The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, PostClassical Ensemble presents two programs of music, readings, commentary, and visual art.

In the years preceding World War I, Arnold Schoenberg, Wasilly Kandinsky, and Ferruccio Busoni craved liberation. The result was non-tonal music and non-representational painting. Later, Schoenberg fled to the U.S., as did Kurt Weill. As patriotic immigrants, both responded musically to Pearl Harbor.

Program

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Six Little Piano Pieces (1913). Commentary / readings: Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Busoni
Piano Piece, Op. 11, No. 2 (1909).
Schoenberg/Busoni: Piano Piece, Op. 11, no. 2 (1909).

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Sonatina Seconda (1912) for solo piano. Commentary / readings: Schoenberg vs Weill in America; two musical responses to Pearl Harbor, both by Jewish refugees.