Daily Bruin

Opera ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ stages life of acclaimed composer, UCLA professor

This post was updated May 18 at 8:47 p.m. A Hollywood story is being told in a new way with an opera’s West Coast premiere. A production of composer Tod Machover’s piece “Schoenberg in Hollywood” will ...
Yahoo

To capture the outlandish subject of Schoenberg in Hollywood, it takes an opera

There is a small and intriguingly personal sub-genre of operas about composers. Something is always up when one composer deals with another composer’s life and music. Subjects have included Carlo ...
Observer

‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ Lands in L.A.

At the Nimoy Theater, the composer’s story returns to the place where it originally unfolded. Photo: Liza Voll In 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor and the Nazis revoked Schoenberg’s ...
Los Angeles Times

An L.A. Phil champion of Schoenberg for six decades, Zubin Mehta returns to show why

It would be hard to come up with a more radically divisive major composer than Arnold Schoenberg, who was born in Vienna in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1951. It would be equally hard to come up ...
LAist

Schoenberg in Hollywood

Esteeming all musical traditions as vital cultural expressions of our evolving global society, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music cultivates models for musical studies that integrate exemplary ...
Los Angeles Times

Is there a Los Angeles musical style?

The composer and critic Virgil Thomson once defined American music as music written by Americans. There is no arguing with that. Less obvious, however, is figuring out what, if anything, describes L.A ...