1961 Vienna

Jun 11, 1961 – Jun 20, 1961
Vienna

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Start: Jun 11, 1961

End: Jun 20, 1961

Locations: Vienna

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(in conjunction with the 10th Internationalen Musikfest der Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft and the Wiener Festwochen)

From contemporaneous reviews…

“The event that attracted visitors from all parts of Europe and made this festival memorable was the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s oratorio ‘Jacob’s Ladder.’ … The festival included, as usual, a considerable number of uninteresting, routine twelve-tone works, the mere listing of which would serve little purpose and the description of which would be as dull as the works themselves.”

–Everett Helm, “Schoenberg’s ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ is I.S.C.M. Hit,” The New York Times, July 9, 1961, p. 277.

“I sympathize with the I.S.C.M.’s desire to sugar the pill of its annual trade fair with some substantial attraction.”

–Peter Heyworth, “The Fragments of a Giant,” The Observer, June 25, 1961, p. 23.

“It is to acquaint one with composers who normally cannot obtain more than national patronage that the support of these yearly festivals of the International Society for Contemporary Music is still needed: for in our days of adventurous controllers and insatiable Third Programme schedules both the outrageous and the remarkable will travel fast under their own steam.”

–Peter Stadlen, “An Old Fashioned Concern for the Ear,” The London Daily Telegraph, June 24, 1961, p. 9.

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