Article on 20th century music

Some people knew me in the context of music, because after I was a diehard rock guitar player I was a diehard lover of 20th century music. Schoenberg, Webern, Bartok (still a favorite), Legeti, Crumb, etc. It's neat to see a new article about these guys. One of my first awakenings into this world took place at UCLA, where I posed as a student in the Schoenberg Music Library. He had immigrated there from Austria in the 1940s:

In one of my favorite anecdotes in the book, Ross relates a story from Schoenberg's son, Ronald, about the end of the composer's life. In the 1940s, the Schoenbergs lived in upscale Brentwood, Calif., near Shirley Temple. Ronald admits his father, the scourge of the bourgeois, the enfant terrible of the 20th century, felt discouraged that Hollywood tourist buses never pointed out his house. "But another time," Ronald says, "we stopped at a juice bar out on Highway 1, and the radio was playing 'Verklarte Nacht,' and I never saw him so happy."

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