Festival of Words and Music
Air of Another Planet: Arnold Schoenberg and the Meanings of Dissonance

Part 1

Sat, 10/28/2023
4:00 PM - 17:30 Goethe-Institut Boston

Tickets can be purchased here.

Time’s Echo Live: An Exploration of Music, War, and Memory, Part 1

Words: Decades before Schoenberg’s expulsion from Nazi Germany, the composer had described art as "the cry of distress uttered by those who experience firsthand the fate of mankind.” This program provides an introduction to the festival as a whole, while also recounting and exploring the meaning of Schoenberg’s extraordinary journey: from the son of a Jewish shoe manufacturer in Vienna to a Lutheran convert intent on revolutionizing German music, from a political activist determined to avert the great European catastrophe to the creator of the first major musical memorial to the Holocaust. 

Music: Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night") for string sextet, Op. 4 

Performed by
Nicholas Kitchen, violin
Kristopher Tong, violin
Nicholas Cords, viola
Luther Warren, viola
Leland Ko, cello
Yeesun Kim, cello