Nashville songwriter Joe Doyle will be inducted today into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame. This honor was delayed due to the Covid pandemic and scheduling difficulties, but Joe will now join his fellow inductees in the Class of 2020. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music, Joe Doyle, of Riverside, moved to Nashville in January, 1988 to pursue a career as a songwriter. Originally a drummer, during college he’d learned to play guitar and piano and developed an interest in songwriting. It didn’t take long for those in the know in “music city” to recognize his talents – he signed his first songwriting contract in April of that year with publishing giant BMG Music. This began a 10-year run of recordings of his songs by the biggest stars in country music including Reba McEntire, Dan Seals, Martina McBride, Rhett Akins and Alabama. Since then, superstars including Kenny Rogers, Jason Aldean and Tim McGraw have covered his material.

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Joe Doyle – R.I. Music Hall of Fame Induction Concert

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Schoenberg’s Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23, which marks the crystallization of his twelve-tone technique is the launchpad. Other groundbreaking piano methods are heard in Leo Ornstein’s Suicide in an Airplane, distinctive for its tone clusters. Pierre Boulez’s fascinating 12 Notations uses the number 12 as a self-imposed structure with a 12-note row forming the basis of 12 solo piano pieces, each just 12 bars long. The indirect passing of the Schoenberg baton is heard in A Love Supreme, a progressive jazz masterpiece by the famed innovator John Coltrane, whose groundbreaking style is rooted in Schoenberg’s techniques, gleaned from his teacher Dennis Sandole, a Schoenberg student. Coltrane also studied with Ornstein as a teenager in Philadelphia.

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Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 is an iconic masterpiece that compressed a whole symphony orchestra to 15 musicians and four movements to one. His model inspired many others, including Franz Hasenöhrl, who arranged Richard Strauss’s tuneful Till Eulenspiegel from a massive orchestra to violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and double bass. Two-time Oscar-winning film composer Leonard Rosenman studied with Schoenberg. Scott Dunn’s piano four hands arrangement offers a taste of Rosenman’s East of Eden. Two works packed with emotion provide a bittersweet finale to the final season. Bach’s monumental Chaconne is a 15-minute tour de-force. Jacaranda fades to black with Mahler’s final work, the fiercely beautiful Symphony No. 10 Adagio arranged by Hans Stadlmair for strings.

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Belmont Music Publishers owner Larry Schoenberg talks about his father with Harvey Sachs, author of the critically acclaimed classical music bestselling biography Schoenberg: Why He Matters (2023). Praised by composer John Adams (“one of the great narratives of 20th-century Western culture, and one can see how the story of this artist’s struggle for acceptance against the backdrop of the societal calamities of his era was so appealing to Sachs”, New York Times) this astonishingly lyrical biography rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers. Synthesizing Wagnerian excess with Brahmsian restraint, Schoenberg created a shock wave that never quite subsided, and, as Sachs powerfully argues, his compositions must be confronted by anyone interested in the past, present, or future of Western music. He has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement; and for BBC, PBS, CBC and other radio and television networks. He has lectured at universities and cultural institutions worldwide; has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He holds an honorary doctorate from Cleveland Institute of Music and was the NY Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence.

Schoenberg: Why He Matters

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This Vienna/LA double portrait pairs Schoenberg’s delightful Presto in C Major with Schubert’s Quartetsatz in C minor. His debt to Schubert is heard in Transfigured Night. Solo piano works illustrate the composer in LA. Eldon Rathburn’s Schoenberg vs. Gershwin: A Tennis Match portrays close friends and tennis partners. The Canadian film composer won the LA Philharmonic Orchestra Young Artist Award in 1945 for which Schoenberg was a judge. Erich Zeisl’s Pieces for Barbara were composed for his young daughter who married Schoenberg’s son Ronald. Ernst Krenek, who emigrated in 1938, composed the witty and heartfelt George Washington Variations. Set to Lord Byron’s protest of tyranny, Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon, composed during WW II, extols Washington.

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Providing a compelling personal look at Arnold Schoenberg and some of the key factors that shaped him, Jacaranda, in conjunction with UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, is screening two documentary films by Emmy-nominated director, editor and writer Hilan Warshaw and Emmy-winner Peter Rosen that focus on different aspects of the legendary composer’s private life and career. Through the Darkness (52 minutes, 2021) tells the true story of two artistic geniuses – Schoenberg and painter Richard Gerstl – whose passion for their art and the same woman drew them together and ultimately drove one of them to take his life and changed the course of artistic history. Shadows in Paradise: Hitler’s Exiles in Hollywood (56 minutes, 2008), directed by Rosen and edited by Warshaw, chronicles the exile of tens of thousands of Germanic intellectuals and radicals, including many of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, among them Schoenberg, to the US and LA, which was transformed by the exodus into one of the cultural centers of the world. Thomas Mann wrote, "Exile creates a special form of life, and the various reasons for banishment make little difference - the sharing of a common fate are more fundamental than such nuances of opinion... people find their way to one another. All of German literature settled here."

City Of Music To City Of Angels

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Schoenberg revered Wagner whose piano Elegy introduces the expressionist moods of Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11, Schoenberg’s first important piano work. The passion of Berg’s Piano Sonata Op. 1, a single movement ripe with Wagnerian chromaticism follows. Lyris Quartet performs Webern’s zingy Five Pieces of String Quartet. Then Jacaranda Chamber Ensemble, with David Bloom conducting, gives the world premiere of Peter Knell’s Arkhipov Synthesis, based on his gripping tale of apocalypse averted. This program is part of the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music — 100+ music institutions showcase forward-looking voices with new works written within the past five years.

Perilous Balance

Jacaranda opens its final season Planet Schoenberg on September 23 with Hanging Gardens. Schoenberg’s lush Book of the Hanging Gardens is a Late Romantic setting of bittersweet love poems by Stefan George. Its 1910 premiere received a lukewarm reception, but the tides turned in 1920 Paris when critics heard Schoenberg’s genius. Together pianist Steven Vanhauwaert and mezzo soprano Katarzyna Sadej take this forbidden journey into hanging gardens.  Under the direction of Jacaranda's music director Mark Alan Hilt, soprano Julia Metzler and the Jacaranda Chamber Ensemble will perform the chamber version of Gustav Mahler’s beloved Fourth Symphony—composed in 1900 and arranged by Schoenberg disciple Erwin Stein in 1920. The always pragmatic Arnold Schoenberg believed such arrangements offered clarity and an affordable way to hear unknown symphonic music, especially by his friend Mahler.

Hanging Gardens

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