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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BEETHOVEN/SCHOENBERG PROJECT

The Beethoven/Schoenberg project, which will continue through 2006-07, will include six programs in 2005-06. Next season's concerts include performances of Beethoven's Missa solemnis with Deborah Voigt, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Ben Heppner, and Ren� Pape; Schoenberg's Gurrelieder with Karita Mattila, Hunt Lieberson, and Paul Groves; Beethoven's Triple Concerto, Symphony No. 1, and Symphony No. 7; and Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Variations for Orchestra, and the symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande. Finally, the BSO will pair Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

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In his second season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine will present the first half of an ambitious 12-program exploration of major Beethoven and Schoenberg works.

Explaining the Beethoven/Schoenberg pairings, Levine said yesterday: ''Both composers experienced a certain amount of excited acceptance" in their day. But because of their daring, ''there were a lot of things that were neither understood nor accepted. So many things in late Beethoven didn't occur again until Schoenberg. When I did some of these programs with the Munich Philharmonic, people got into Schoenberg's music more easily -- it sounded more accessible -- and they were struck by how far Beethoven's music really went."

The BSO's 2005-'06 season also brings a mix of premieres, explorations of neglected works, and familiar repertoire by Mozart, Schumann, Berlioz, Debussy, Mahler, and Gershwin.

''I'm always looking for organic ways to present works in contexts that are illuminating for the music and for the listener," Levine said. ''The orchestra has worked very hard and achieved a new standard that gives us ground to stand on so we can make more subtle improvements more easily."

Levine will lead 11 programs next season, the same number as this year. There will be no concert opera, but Levine will conduct two evening-length works with prestigious soloists from the Metropolitan Opera: Beethoven's ''Missa Solemnis" with Deborah Voigt, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Ben Heppner, and Rene Pape, and Schoenberg's luscious late-romantic oratorio ''Gurrelieder" with Karita Mattila, Lieberson, Albert Dohmen, Johan Botha, Paul Groves, and Waldemar Kmentt.

Another all-Beethoven program features the Triple Concerto with violinist Miriam Fried, pianist Jonathan Biss (her son), and cellist Ralph Kirshbaum, plus the Second and Seventh Symphonies.

An all-Schoenberg program brings the Five Pieces for Orchestra, the Variations for Orchestra, and his symphonic poem ''Pelleas und Melisande." A program featuring both composers pairs Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony.

Levine's annual keyboard appearance with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players also includes Beethoven (the Quintet for Piano and Winds and the song cycle ''An die ferne Geliebte," with Matthew Polenzani) and Schoenberg (solo piano pieces with Levine and ''Pierrot Lunaire," with the legendary diva Anja Silja).

The Vienna State Opera's 2005-06 season will include a gala concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of its reopening after World War II, the Associated Press reports.

The season will also include new productions of Wagner's Lohengrin, Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, and a double bill of Jan�cek's Osud and Puccini's Le Villi. In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, the company will present new productions of his IdomeneoThe Abduction From the Seraglio.

Miami student to study in Vienna

Subjects will be Schoenberg, Wittgenstein

By Seth Clevenger

OXFORD � Michael Seifried, a senior honors student at Miami University, will live a scholastic dream next year by studying music and philosophy in Vienna, Austria, as the recipient of this year�s Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Prize. For the full school year, Seifried will study composer Arnold Schoenberg and philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein at the Schoenberg Center in Vienna. The Goldman Prize, valued at about $26,000 this year, annually gives one graduating Miami University senior the freedom to fully pursue an in-depth, independent study related to the student�s career path and future studies. Seifried, the son of Susan and Carl Seifried of Cleveland, is majoring in philosophy and minoring in German at Miami. He said the Goldman Prize will allow him to pursue his interests in a way that many students can only dream about. �It�s an amazing opportunity for students to do something they�d probably never have the chance to do otherwise,� Seifried said. �It gives you the rare opportunity to give 100 percent of your time and focus to one subject without other distractions like work or other classes.�
While in Vienna, Seifried plans to spend most of his time studying at the Schoenberg archives, which contain Schoenberg�s original writings and manuscripts.
He also plans to see performances of Schoenberg�s music and talk to musicians �Schoenberg is a cultural figure in Vienna,� Seifried said. �I plan to focus on the materials available in Vienna that are not available elsewhere.�
The culmination of Seifried�s studies will be a monograph of around 100 pages, which he described as a �humanities-based introduction to Schoenberg�s music and thought.� Seifried hopes to satisfy three different audiences - musicians, scholars, and general readers - while still producing a work of significant academic value.
�My most difficult task is to create something both accessible and interesting for the general reader, but still make points and clarify the music theory so it�s interesting to scholars and musicians as well,� Seifried said. Seifried said his goal is to bridge the work of Schoenberg, who is one of the most widely studied musicians of the 20th century, with Wittgenstein�s philosophy of aesthetics. Seifried said that both men saw art as �a way of challenging complacency,� and �a call to rethinking one�s life.�
Seifried�s independent study next year will not be his first foray into Schoenberg scholarship. He has been interested in Schoenberg ever since studying in Berlin the summer after his freshman year. Seifried later went on to study Kantian aesthetics at the University of Cambridge.
In the summer of 2003, Seifried received a grant from Miami to work on a project entitled �Wittgenstein, Schoenberg and the Language of Free Tonality,� with Miami music professor Eftychia Papanikolaou as his faculty mentor. Papanikolaou will also be Seifried�s mentor during his independent study in Vienna. She will correspond with Seifried during his studies and help to guide his research. �Michael�s very capable of sustaining the research on his own,� Papanikolaou said. �I�m just there to help him take it to the next level.� After her experience working with Seifried on his summer project two years ago, Papanikolaou is confident in his ability to do Ph.D. level work.
�He�s a very intellectual person,� Papanikolaou said. �He�s curious, well-read, and has a very broad mind. He�s also a very good researcher - something you don�t always see in an undergraduate student.� She sees this independent study as a great chance for Seifried to be �immersed in the culture by going to Vienna and interacting with the people there.�
Seifried has won numerous awards and scholarships at Miami, including a Benjamin Harrison Scholarship, a Linda Singer Memorial Award in Philosophy and the Provost�s Academic Achievement Award. He is also active on Miami�s campus as the founder and president of the University Lyceum, which aims to stimulate intellectual activity on campus by sponsoring cultural events, such as a student art exhibit and classical music performances.
Eric Goldman established the Goldman Prize in 1993 to honor his late wife, Joanna, a 1943 Miami graduate. Past Goldman winners have used the award to write a children�s book in the language of the Miami tribe, study human skeletons from around the world, explore gender roles in rural Ghana and study the classical music of India.
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The Schoenberg programme at the DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC ANALYSIS for your Website: http://www.dublinmusicanalysis.com/ 23rd - 25th June 2005 Preliminary Programme THURSDAY MORNING Session A1 Severine Neff (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) A Tonal Paradox in Sonata-Allegro Form: Flat-1 in Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, Op. 10 Jack Boss (University of Oregon) Diverse Musical Forms and Global Coherence in Schoenberg's Third Satire, Op. 28 Tuukka Ilomki (Sibelius Academy/Eastman School of Music) The Row is Not Enough: Aspects of Pitch-organization in Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra Opus 31 Ethan Haimo (University of Notre Dame) Partitioning and Analysis in the Second Movement of Schoenberg’s Fourth String Quartet Session A2 Stephen Peles (University of Alabama) Was Gleichzeitig Klingt : The Schoenberg-Schenker Dispute and the Tasks of Music Theory Murray Dineen (University of Ottawa) The Tonal Problem: An Analytic Method THURSDAY AFTERNOON Session B1 Pieter Berg (University of Leuven) Structural Relevance of the First Part Caesura Concept: Rethinking Main Theme-Typologies in Traditional Formenlehre Felix Wörner (Stanford University) The Influence of the Gestalt Theory on the German Formenlehre Tradition FRIDAY MORNING Session A1 Don McLean (McGill University) Der Dichter entspricht: Conforming and Deforming Formenlehre chez Schoenberg et son Ecole Idar Khannanov (Oklahoma City University) Russian Theory of Formal Functions in Comparison with Schoenberg-Ratz's Concept Marina Lupishko (Cardiff University) Where did the Grundgestalt and the Developing Variation Come from? Schoenberg's Early Formenlehre as seen through the Eyes of His Students Avior Byron (Royal Holloway, University of London/Bar-Ilan University in Israel) Formal Analyses of Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht in Light of his Performance Practice

MOSAIC, Inc. received a NEA Grant for a new production of Pierrot Lunaire and the early Cabaret Songs.
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To support the remounting of Cabaret Schoenberg, an interpretation of composer Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, stylized to evoke the original cabaret setting. Director Hans Peter Cloos (Germany) and designer Jean Kalman (France) will collaborate with the MOSAIC ensemble to meld the components of music, theater, film, and slide projections.

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