Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast.

My name is Joshua Wilerstein, I'm a conductor and I'm the music director of the Phoenix

Orchestra of Boston. This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just getting ready to dive in to this amazing world of incredible music.

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This is a newly updated version of one of my most popular shows from the past,

how to listen to and enjoy atonal music. I hope you enjoy it.

The Musical Times, May 1930, quote, The name of Schoenberg is as far as the British public 7th, 1940.

A regular Friday audience, 90% feminine and 100% well-bred, sat stoically yesterday through 30 minutes of the most cacophonous world premiere ever heard here

the first performance anywhere of a new violin concerto by Arnold Schernberg

a handful of dowagers however gave up the fight and walked out, noses in the air.

Yesterday's piece combines the best sound effects of a henyard at feeding time and practice hour at a busy music conservatory. The effect on the vast majority of hearers is that of a lecture

on the fourth dimension delivered in Chinese. The Olin Downs in the New York Times 1941, quote,

By the time the Vaburn ended, the room was as mephitic as the composition.

The windows following the intermission were closed, and at this point nature rebelled.

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