The world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s opera “Moses and Aron” was presented here this week-end by the symphony orchestra of the Northwest German Radio. The concert was also heard over the Austrian and French radio networks.
Nineteen hundred persons crowded into North Germany’s largest concert hall to hear the highly difficult work performed by a full orchestra and three choirs which spent ten weeks in rehearsal. Schoenberg, born in Vienna, had reached the top of the German musical world when the Nazis forced him to leave. He died in Los Angeles in 1951 at the age of 77.
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