World Premiere at the Nu Mu [sic!] Unlimited Festival 2006
Please allow sufficient time for movie and mp3 to download (size = 3 megabytes). Music: Arnold Schoenberg, Sechs Klavierstücke, op. 11, no. 6, performed by Joseph Dillon Ford
Schoenberg: The Movie was premiered during the first annual Nu Mu [sic!] Unlimited Festival on 31 October 2006. This short silent black and white motion picture has but a single caption, which summarizes its entire content: "I breathe the air of other planets." From the pen of poet Stefan George, this line was quoted by Schoenberg in his Second String Quartet (1908), a Meisterstück of the highest orbit generally taken to be the world's very first atonal, antigravitational musical composition. George's words seem to presage with remarkable clarity the entire course of the great composer's subsequent artistic development, but until now no one has attempted to dramatize their profound musico-historical significance in any filmic medium. This movie attempts to answer the question, "What would it have been like if Schoenberg had actually inhaled?" See for yourselves, O New Music lovers!
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