Zubin Mehta still champions Arnold Schoenberg at the L.A. Phil
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…
A renovated concert hall gives San Diego Symphony new life
There are many reasons for the current rage in renovating concert halls. It is usually cheaper than building something new. The science, as well as…
Review: Mitsuko Uchida’s Ojai Festival revealed the zen of Mozart
When Schoenberg wrote “Six Little Piano pieces,” his Opus 19, he was he was in his mid 30s, taking deep compositional breaths, smelling the roses…