The Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) adopted the revolutionary twelve-tone method, but he frequently combined it with tonality. Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern have often been called the second Viennese school. (The first...

A three-day festival dedicated to the music of Alban Berg was held at London's Barbican centre. In the works of Berg, one of the leading members of the Second Viennese School, the formality and inaccessibility of much serial music is tempered by an appealing...

By Dave Headlam. (Composers of the Twentieth Century.) New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. [xi, 460 p. ISBN 0-300-06400-4. $45.] Dave Headlam's Music of Alban Berg is the first comprehensive study of Berg's oeuvre since the publication of Douglas Jarman's book of...

In an age in which a listener can access a thousand years of music with the click of a mouse, and in which living classical composers, no matter how worthy, are unlikely to regain a place at the top of the cultural food chain, just...

As you enter the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center for the opening installment of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard’s trilogy about the fate of the revolutionary intellectuals of mid-19th-century Russia, it would be understandable if you were overcome by the fear that you...