“Driven into Paradise”: Schoenberg in Los Angeles
- May 7, 2025
- 5pm
- Online, Register here
This online event panel gathers venerated historians, musicologists and composers to explore Schoenberg’s complex relationship with Los Angeles.
An online discussion of the history and experience of Schoenberg in Los Angeles with scholars and artists. The panel will include historian Kenneth Marcus (University of La Verne), musicologists Sabine Feisst (Arizona State University), and composer Tod Machover (MIT), moderated by Robert Fink (UCLA).
Register in advance for the event here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event.
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of the American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Participants:
–Sabine Feisst – ASU Evelyn Smith Professor of Musicology. Feisst’s publications include the books Schoenberg’s Correspondence with American Composers (Oxford UP 2018), Schoenberg’s New World: The American Years (Oxford UP 2011) and Der Begriff “Improvisation” in der neuen Musik (Studio Verlag 1997).
–Kenneth Marcus – Professor of History at University of La Verne, engaged with cultural history and the history of Los Angeles. He focuses on transnational connections between Europe and the Americas as well as African American arts and culture. Among his publications is Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
–Tod Machover – Academic Head of the MIT Media Lab. He is an innovative composer that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries and for developing technologies that expand music’s potential for everyone. Has composed music for celebrated virtuosi to musicians of all abilities. Composer of Schoenberg in Hollywood Opera
–Robert Fink, Moderator – UCLA Special Academic Senior Associate Dean of the Herb Alpert School of Music, Professor of Musicology and Music Industry, author of Repeating Ourselves, a 2005 study of American minimal music as cultural practice; and editor of The Relentless Pursuit of Tone, an interdisciplinary survey of research into the “sound” of popular music—awarded the American Musicological Society’s Ruth Solie Prize for best edited collection.