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3 October 2012

Row, Row, Row That Tone Many people are frightened by the name Schoenberg, the father of 12-tone composition, but, as Alan Gilbert points out, schoen means beautiful in German. Take the opening tone row of Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto (above). Michael Steinberg, a former Philharmonic Program Annotator, described this ordering of the 12 tones of the chromatic scale as “the piano playing alone a lyric melody in a gentle waltz tempo.”  Discover the beauty in Schoenberg when the magnificent Emanuel Ax joins Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic October 4–6. Or read more here. 

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Row, Row, Row That Tone

Many people are frightened by the name Schoenberg, the father of 12-tone composition, but, as Alan Gilbert points out, schoen means beautiful in German. Take the opening tone row of Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto (above). Michael Steinberg, a former Philharmonic Program Annotator, described this ordering of the 12 tones of the chromatic scale as “the piano playing alone a lyric melody in a gentle waltz tempo.” 

Discover the beauty in Schoenberg when the magnificent Emanuel Ax joins Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic October 4–6. Or read more here. 

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