A MATTER OF DISSONANCE
A MATTER OF DISSONANCE New Yorker, August 26 & September 2, 1996 LETTER FROM LOS ANGELES Arnold Schoenberg’s music was daring, discordant, and enduringly unpopular. U.S.C. is a university famous for its football trophies and film school. Whoever thought the composer’s legacy belonged in a place like that?_______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN SHORT, bald, quick-witted, and irritable, […]
TWILIGHT OF THE GOD?
TWILIGHT OF THE GOD? New Yorker, October 3, 1994 NIGHTS AT THE OPERA James Levine has ruled the Met for over a decade. The general manager, Joseph Volpe, who rose from the carpentry shop, may have ambitions of his own._______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN IT had been a bad week for James Levine. First, Levine, the artistic director […]