Series 20c. - Celebrating Schoenberg : Recital/Lecture 5 - Cabaret

Most people love to hate Arnold Schoenberg’s music. But do they know what they are rejecting? This series will show how to find and love its great hidden beauty, through detailed listening, plain talk with careful live illustration, and repeated hearing. Each of the five events, one per September weekend, will focus on a different genre and artistic moment, featuring the best of the Bay Area’s zealous new music performers. The lecturers are enthusiastic teachers dedicated to all classical music.

Sunday, Sept. 29th at 7pm - - Recital/Lecture 4: Cabaret

Perhaps Schoenberg’s most famous modernistic work is Pierrot Lunaire, composed shortly before World War 1, in the middle of the composer’s almost frantic exploratory period of atonality. It certainly is his most entertainingly theatrical piece; a speaker acts out the whimsical mental caprices of the intoxicated iconic clown, while a small group of instruments blazes in kaleidoscopic accompaniment. Nikki Einfeld is soloist, with players from Left Coast Ensemble, under the direction of conductor Matilda Hofman, who will share the discussion lectern with Jonathan Khuner or Bruce Bennett.

General Admission - $15

Seniors/Students - $10 per event

Hillside Club members - Free.

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