Happy birthday to Austrian composer and music theorist Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)! In his fifth Norton Lecture at Harvard University in 1973, entitled "The Twentieth Century Crisis", Leonard Bernstein examined Arnold Schoenberg's movement toward atonality with the introduction of a new "ambiguous wrinkle", Sprechstimme, in his Opus 21, 'Pierrot Lunaire'. Bernstein then sings part of the song cycle. | Leonard Bernstein

On 9/9, we share with you Leonard Bernstein’s examination of the superstition surrounding “Ninth” symphonies. What's your favorite Ninth? In an introductory trailer to his Dmitri Shostakovich 9th Symphony performance with the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker, distributed by Deutsche Grammophon, Bernstein explains how Shostakovich “thumbed his nose” at the tradition of Ninth symphonies of the great composers. "The mystique of the number nine exerted itself in an odd way, so typical of

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