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Program Notes — Poetry in Motion, Episode 2

April 21, 2021

      Arnold Schoenberg (1874—1951)Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)—Version for String Orchestra It opens with a cliché: your basic dark and stormy night. A couple is walking through the forest. The woman has a secret to impart to her new lover: she is pregnant, and not by him. He is, not surprisingly, taken aback by this…

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Three Composers and their Irrational Fear of Numbers

October 13, 2017

From October 13th to the 31st, the California Symphony will be exploring mysteries and superstitions surrounding symphonic composers. Pictured left to right: Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, and Alban Berg. Composers can be a superstitious bunch. For this Friday the 13th during the spooky month of Halloween, we look at three who were fixated on the power…

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