'lff-fff"" -'-) -"rllrinir-n-iffff "- HWWBPBRipwil!WSww,?rT! J-oawjLKMW'iJJ'J "i". '. M riK,vtU;tnMMXfwwh!Mmmvitn The Evening Ledfjer- Amusement Section, Saturday, October 30, 1915 WHAT THE ARTIST SAW AT "A FULL HOUSE" . WHAT SCHOENBERG IS DRIVING AT DISCLOSED BY LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI The Talented Leader of the Orchestra Explains Why He Is Producing the Chamber Symphony Note Arnold Schoenberc was known only a few years aqo as the most revolutionary ot composers. Outcry at his work has. however, not persisted, because after Mm a number of freaks have come to a transient glory as being "more advanced" or more outrageous and have plaei In tart on his reputation, lie Ij himself a man of profound ovlslnallty and who hate played in part on his reputation, lie somen hat hackneyed taunt that he writes In a new idiom because he cannot master the oM. He both understands and masters the established Idiom ot music. Ills sitet. VerUaerte Nacht." played here U3t year by tho KnelseU. waa a revelation of the strict beauty ho can achieve, and the works In his later manner are of an 'Interest far beyond their technical oddities. ,...,. So It Is not at all as an apoloey that the following article by llr. StokowskI Is to 09 considered. It explains why. ot many novel ties, this one was chosen. The article will appear In the program books of the orchestra, but it seems desirable to give it the utmost publicity in this place. Music Editor. By LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI At a final hearing Schoenberg's Kammer Symphonle Is so ugly and apparently without spontaneous feeling; that I feel impelled to say frankly to the public why I am producing It. Schoenberg's music has received more serious attention from the foremost mu sicians of all nations in recent years than any other ultra-modern composer. It has aroused the public notably in London and Rome to violent protest and even riotous scenes in the concert hall. Schoenberg has been villified as a mad man and a charlatan. Just as were Mon teverdi. Gluck, Beethoven. Wagner. Straus3 and many other great masters when they first startled the world with their works, which sounded strange at that time, but- which are now considered masterpieces. What, then, is this music of Schoen bers which creates such a storm? The simplest answer is a comparison. De bussy's music corresponds to impression Ism In painting; Schoenberg's Is futur ism. The Kammer-Bytnphonle Is cubism In music. But In place of cubes he em ploys the musical interval of a fourth. The first theme of the symphonle is a series of steps upward of a fourth, thus treating this Interval melodically. Later he superimposes a number of fourths, one upon the other, sounding them si multaneously, thus treating them har monically. That Schoenbergr. as a theorist at least. Is not a shallow charlatan, but a man of most profound musical knowledge. Is proven by his "Harmonlelehre" (Vienna, 1911). In this book he shows himself to be not only easily master of the academic harmonic sj-stem, but shows how the iron-bound rules of the conservatorlum are choking development, and were them selves broken before they were made by the source and Inspiration of all modern music Bach. From Bach and Mozart he deduces and proves most of his the ories, and, carrying them further, points 1, Mr. Erady began dictating and at I p. m. had completed the- storywhieh in cluded 185 scnes and filled a book and a half with stenographic notes. The stenographer began transcribing her notes at 2 p. m. and-at 10 p. m. that night, with an hour for lunch, turned In the completed manuscript of 40 pagea. The dictating and transcribing occupied exactly 10 hours of work, a record, so far as Is known, for the writing and typ ing of a scenario. the way to enormous and undreamed-of possibilities of development for the fu- 1 Like the futurists in painting. Schoen- j i berg does not insist on his theories and ' I compositions as a final state of an art ' development, but frankly says he is ' reaching out to new art form3. He Is ' breaking fresh ground, like every other innovator and pioneer before him. Although we may not be able to Judge adequately the value of these lnnova- "wiu m -m jcaia vo uuiiiv, yet x am plaving the Kanimer-Symphonle because I feel that It is right that Philadelphia. like all other music centres, should keep in touch -with the latest notable devel opments in music Scenario in Ten Hours Jasper Ewing Brady, one of the Vita- I graph staff, was commissioned by Coin- i modore J. Stuart Blackton to prepare a l.Icturization of Cyrus Townsend Brady's military story. "Colton. U. S. X.." In the shortest possible time to complete a workable manuscript. Mr. Brady was told to select the speediest stenographer at the Vltagraph studio and get busy. Commencing at 10 a. m. Friday, October It does seem incredible, but there m such a thing as "Tne Unwelcome Wife" Perhaps you will not agree with the author of this new problem photoplay, hut you can see it at your neighborhood theatre by requesting the man ager to show this play. He can get it from the EASTERN BOOKING OFFICES, Inc. 1237 Vine St. Philadelphia Then decide for yourself The Most Wonderful Thing in Philadelphia Is the remarkable popularity of the Lubin pictures. Of course, "there's a reason' It's simply because we are making the kind of pictures the photoplay patrons want. Once you have seen one of our productions you, too, will agree that they are as near perfection, from every angle, as it is possible to make them. We now have one of the strongest producing forces in the moving picture field, and are constantly adding to our targe list of promi nent stars. Lubin is one of the oldest producing companies and our facilities second to none for picture making. .aiii!kJaaifedg)i,.Bifcjirfwt! 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