In Arnold Schoenberg's great unfinished opera, "Moses und Aron," God's forceful yet ineloquent prophet Moses faces his people and declares, "All-powerful One, the omnipresent One/ Invisible, ...
Los Angeles largely ignored Arnold Schoenberg, arguably the most influential and controversial composer of the 20th century, when he labored at USC and UCLA during the last 17 years of his life. As if ...
The production is dominated by the huge chorus, who are onstage almost throughout. The set is simple, a shallow ascending terrace, but it is also small and narrow, with a low ceiling. That gives a ...
The ineffable nature of faith and the infallibility of belief are the two ideas that form the crux of Schoenberg’s monumental, unfinished opera Moses und Aron. Composed to his own libretto, the ...
MOSES UND ARON IS ON MY CONSCIENCE. Arnold Schoenberg's opera, imposing even in its unfinished state, accorded unquestioned masterpiece recognition on the strength of its composer's own eminence, is ...
Fifty years after Arnold Schoenberg's death, his unfinished, frustrated, towering masterpiece has achieved its first hearing in its composer's final hometown. Begun in 1930, abandoned in 1945 with ...