Articles by Ben Allison

Different Generations, Same Realizations

by Ben Allison
March 14, 2003

In the summer of 1992, I was reading a biography about Alban Berg that described his and Arnold Schoenberg's frustration over the lack of adequate performance opportunities for their music and the gap that seemed to exist between them and the public. This situation inspired Schoenberg to look for alternatives to the usual channels that composers were forced to use to get their music heard. He and his colleagues decided to produce their own concerts, free from the ...