V014: "Arnold Schoenberg: Father of Modern Music"
Non-commercial, b/w (1966).
VHS (PAL), 58:30.
VHS (NTSC), 58:30.
VHS (PAL): silent (footage of Rockingham home used during television show), 12:50.
VHS (NTSC): silent (footage of Rockingham home used during television show), 12:50.
VHS (NTSC): silent (footage of Rockingham home used during television show, also Serge Hovey home movies), 11:50. ABC TV "Scope" Series, hosted by Truman Fisher (Pasadena City College)
Directed by Wes Butler
Non-commercial, b/w (1966).
VHS (PAL), 58:30.
VHS (NTSC), 58:30.
VHS (PAL): silent (footage of Rockingham home used during television show), 12:50.
VHS (NTSC): silent (footage of Rockingham home used during television show), 12:50.
VHS (NTSC): silent (footage of Rockingham home used during television show, also Serge Hovey home movies), 11:50. ABC TV "Scope" Series, hosted by Truman Fisher (Pasadena City College)
Directed by Wes Butler
Time | Description |
0:00 | Blank tape |
0:30 | Sextet performing Verklärte Nacht, titles |
4:40 | Fisher thanks the performers and introduces a contrasting work (4th String Quartet). |
5:25 | Fisher interrupts the performers and makes further introductory comments. He sits at the piano and explains the concept of "tonality." |
9:55 | Prelude to Tristan und Isolde, arranged for string quartet |
10:50 | Fisher returns to comment upon problems of chromatic composition |
12:00 | String ensemble plays an arrangement of Prokofiev's "Classical Symphony" |
13:30 | Ensemble plays a Stravinsky neo-Baroque piece |
14:00 | Fisher refers to Debussy's use of pentatonicism and whole-tone scale, plays a bit of Nuages |
14:45 | Fisher discusses modes and atonality. He plays an excerpt from op. 11, no. 1, then explains the 12-tone method of composition. String players demonstrate various permutations of a row (from op. 37). |
21:30 | Footage from Schoenberg's Rockingham home (quartet plays op. 37, mvmt. 1 in the background). Gertrud Schoenberg shows Fisher around Schoenberg's study: various 12-tone devices, manuscripts (Verklärte Nacht, op. 11, op. 23). |
25:50 | Fisher returns to the TV studio; sextet resumes Verklärte Nacht. |
27:45 | Program concludes, titles |
29:25 | Beginning of next Scope episode (taped February 22, 1966 to be aired April 15, 1966) |
29:55 | Bust of Schoenberg, titles |
30:25 | Fisher greets the audience, introduces Gertrud Schoenberg, Rudolf Kolisch, and Lawrence Schoenberg |
32:15 | Footage from Serge Hovey home movies (see V034); photos of Schoenberg; Schoenberg's voice-over from various sound recordings (speaking English) |
35:30 | Return to television studio. Fisher asks Kolisch to comment on performing Schoenberg's works. |
38:35 | Fisher asks Larry for his reminiscences about his father. Larry discusses the Sunday morning classes. Gertrud demonstrates Schoenberg's crafts: models, playing cards, paint box. Gertrud discusses Schoenberg's paintings, many of which are hung in the television studio. |
47:20 | Fisher introduces Robert Gross and Peter Hewitt, who perform Schoenberg's Phantasy for Violin and Piano op. 47. |
55:30 | Performance concludes. Fisher thanks his guests for participating and makes concluding comments. |
58:30 | End of recording. |
Sextet
Irving Geller
Roy Tanabe
Irving Manning
Jeanne Aiken
Don Cole
Beverly Lauridsen