Theodor Adorno must After the premiere of “Wozzeck” at the Berlin State Opera, offer your condolences to Alban Berg until late on the night of 14 December 1925. The problem wasn’t that Berg’s first opera was a disaster, that this unknown student of Arnold Schoenberg was ready to be sent back to his former anonymity …
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In his youth, he was repeatedly faced with career choices that were mistaken for his multiple talents, originality, imagination, and critical acumen—for example, as a chemist’s assistant and “a trial apprenticeship that became the most miserable and most hopeless” at Hyde’s Drapery Emporium. a period of his entire life.” Yet some early work, such as …
Museum officials said the September 11 Memorial and Museum in Lower Manhattan has canceled special exhibition plans to commemorate the 20th anniversary of perhaps the most traumatic day in modern American history. Discount means the nonprofit museum of a serious budget crisis deductions including leave and layoffs It affects about 60 percent of its staff. …
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