>From the Alex Ross's review of the Met's Moses und Aron in this week's New
Yorker:
"Arnold Schoenberg looked like a great man. That bald head, shining
like a dangerous new asteroid; that mouth, perpetually forming a deadly
phrase; those eyes, high beams of genius, finding you, accusing you."
I won't ruin the rest of the piece for you, but Ross relates an interesting
reading of the quasi-tonality of the music associated with Aron against the
"pure" serialism of Moses.
John Halbrooks