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John Halbrooks <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:30:42 -0600
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>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

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