Triple bill reveals Schoenberg's recalcitrant beauties
In 1931 Composer Arnold Schoenberg spent a few months in Barcelona. It seemed only natural for a colleague to suggest that a composition by the revolutionary Viennese master should be played at a local concert. Schoenberg reacted with mock alarm. "I have made many friends here who have never heard my works but who play tennis with me," he said. "What will they think of me when they hear my horrible dissonances?"
Schoenberg's dissonances have long since become the common currency of 20th century music. No other composer of his time except Stravinsky has proved as influential,...
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