Steve Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>As much as I love Schoenberg's music, I think he would have made an equally
>good chief of the Comintern.

Good point.  In the famous interview between Horenstein and Alan Blyth
(now on the BBC Legends issue of the Mahler 8), Horenstein explains why
he was never a formal pupil of Schoenberg; as Egon Wellesz (IIRC) told him,
"with Schoenberg you learn everything, beginning with how to lit [sic] a
cigarette." JH says he was not prepared to submerge his personality to that
extent.

BTW, Weill's Symphony No.1 is obviously endebted to Schoernberg First
Chamber Symphony in a big way.

Deryk Barker
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