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On a flight from Berlin to Paris, a woman haunted by composer Arnold Schoenberg's self-portrait reflects on her romantic encounter with a pianist. Obsessive, darkly comic, and full of angst, Blue Self-Portrait unfolds among Berlin's cultural institutions, but is located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses, with repetitions and variations that explore the possibilities and limitations of art, history, and connection.
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When it comes to how societies remember these increasingly distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of history books, archives, documentaries, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, the award-winning critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler makes a passionate and revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. With a critic's ear, a scholar's...
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The desire for canonization and the process by which it is obtained are the underlying themes of this dialogue, with emphasis on Paul Klee's 'Angelus Novus', a canonized work that resonated deeply with Benjamin, Adorno and Scholem (and for which Djerassi presents a revisionist interpretation).
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Tells the story of Schoenberg's life within the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. Born in the Jewish quarter of Vienna, Schoenberg's early career took him to Berlin, as a leading light of Weimar culture, before he fled in the dead of night forn Hitler's Third Reich. Settling in Los Angeles, he inspired composers from George Gershwin to John Cage. Schoenberg's revolutionary approach to musical composition incorporated Wagnerian...
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