“At the beginning of the century, composers were cynosures on the world stage, their premieres mobbed by curiosity seekers, their transatlantic progress chronicled by telegraphic bulletins, their deathbed scenes described in exquisite detail.”
“From 1900 to 2000, the art experienced what can only be described as a fall from a great height,” Alex Ross writes in The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century. Alex Ross, from the epilogue to The Rest Is Noise
Schoenberg’s scandal-making chords, totems of the Viennese artist in revolt against bourgeois society, seep into Hollywood thrillers and post-war jazz.
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