Research Catalog

Title

Translating abstraction into music? [videorecording] : Parallels to abstract painting in 20th century music, Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
• Webern, Anton, 1883-1945.
• Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016.
• Cage, John
• Crumb, George
• Botstein, Leon
• Cronson, Mary Sharp
• Bard Festival Chamber Players
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (94 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program opens with a 35-minute lecture by Leon Botstein about abstraction in music and its connection to and divergence from abstraction in painting. Botstein discusses traditional tonal music and its representation of emotions, Arnold Schoenberg's development of the closed twelve-tone system and its relationship to Wassily Kandinsky's innovations in painting, and further developments in modernist music by Anton Webern, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and George Crumb. The second part of the program is devoted to a concert of music by these composers, including a performance of Schoenberg's String trio.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 069.

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subject

• Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951
• Webern, Anton, 1883-1945
• Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016
• Cage, John
• Crumb, George
• Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944
• Art and music
• Twelve-tone system
• Absolute music
• Art, Abstract

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Music.
• Educational/cultural works.

Event (note)

• Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on March 13, 1996.

Funding (note)

• With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Biography (note)

• This program is presented in conjunction with the Guggenheim exhibition Abstraction in the twentieth century: Total risk, freedom, discipline.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1069

OCLC

100317029

Title

Translating abstraction into music? [videorecording] : Parallels to abstract painting in 20th century music, Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

1996.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 069.

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

Speaker: Leon Botstein. Music performed by the Bard Festival Chamber Players.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on March 13, 1996.

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Biography

This program is presented in conjunction with the Guggenheim exhibition Abstraction in the twentieth century: Total risk, freedom, discipline.

Added Author

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. Trio, violin, viola, cello, op. 45.

Webern, Anton, 1883-1945. Composer

Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016. Composer

Cage, John. Composer

Crumb, George. Composer

Botstein, Leon. Speaker

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Bard Festival Chamber Players.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1069