It would be hard to come up with a more radically divisive major composer than Arnold Schoenberg, who was born in Vienna in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1951. It would be equally hard to come up ...

At the turn of the 20th century, when the three-century period of tonal music was winding down, composers often wrote huge works requiring exceptionally large numbers of performers. Wagner's operas ...

"Gurrelieder," however, would come to mark a kind of transition in Schoenberg's life. Two years into the project, he had to put it on hold. By the time he returned to the songs, 10 years later, he was ...

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is taking on Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, a performance so massive it's billed as a once-in-a-generation event.

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Moser, Philip Langridge, Thomas Quasthoff; Ernst Senff Chorus, Leipzig Radio Chorus, Berlin Radio Chorus and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir ...

Zubin Mehta conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder" Friday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall. (Carlin Stiehsl/Los Angeles Times) It would be hard to come up with a more ...