Reflections of an American Composer
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780520232518
Subjects: Music; 20th century; Genres & Styles - Classical; Music/Songbooks; USA; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; Berger, Arthur,; 1912-; 1912-2003; History and criticism; United States
First sentence: When Arnold Schoenberg, having fled Nazi Germany, came to Boston in 1933 to teach at the short-lived Malkin Conservatory of Music, a story made the rounds to the effect that Richard Burgin, concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, had had a conversation with the celebrated composer in which he proudly announced that some years earlier he had given the first Boston performance of Pier rot Lunaire.