Arquivo de etiquetas: Schönberg

HALSEY STEVENS: The music we are hearing today has been written by a man whose influence on musical thinking has been worldwide. Beginning with Verklärte Nacht and continuing up into the present day, Mr. Schoenberg’s music has stimulated a great deal of discussion and controversy. For the past several years he has been living and teaching here in Southern California. And we are privileged, on this occasion, to hear some of his earliest and some of his latest music. It may not be generally known that Mr. Schoenberg is also a painter as well as a composer and it is particularly appropriate, I think, to have his music performed in the atmosphere of a museum of art. Mr. Schoenberg, I understand that it was originally intended to exhibit some of your paintings at the same time as the performance of the music. Is that right?

SCHOENBERG: Yes, it is right. But I have to correct something.

I was a painter, perhaps, but I am not any longer a painter. I didn’t paint for many, many years – but at least two or three decades but here still the whole afternoon I was under the impression that I will be asked about my paintings and have to speak about them. So I have, a little, prepared my capacity of improvisation in thinking about this subject; or because all my ideas centered around this subject. So I planned to tell you what painting means to me. In fact it was to me the same as making music. It was to me a way of expressing myself, of presenting emotions, ideas, and other feelings. And this is perhaps the way to understand these paintings, or, not to understand them. They would probably have suffered the same fate as I have suffered, they would have been attacked and scolded, and I don’t know what else I should say. What I mean: the same would happen to them what happened to my music. This I mean: with these understood or not understood. In fact, as I said, I expressed myself in the same manner as I did it in music. I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don’t know whether this is because why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting or vice-versa. That I had this veil as an outlet, I could renounce expressing something in words. Does this answer some of your questions?
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