Nuria Schoenberg Nono paints a portrait of Arnold Schönberg the family man, which is radically different from the familiar image of Schönberg the twelve-tone revolutionary. An interview by Max Nyffeler.
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Nuria Schoenberg Nono, you were born in 1932, and just two years later your parents emigrated to America to escape the Nazis. You spent your childhood and youth in Los Angeles. What was your experience of your father then, in public and in private?
He was hardly known to the general public. We were emigrants, and his music was foreign to the Americans. In Los Angeles, someone might say to him: “Ah, I know who you are. You are the father of Ronny, who won the tennis tournament.” Granted, he was a professor at the university, but he was no god. In Europe, it was different. When I went to Hamburg in 1954 for the posthumous premiere of his opera Moses und Aron, I experienced the strangest things. People came up to me and said, “Oh, you’re Schönberg’s daughter. May I touch you?”
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Mr. Cage, in the last few years, you have mainly been performing with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Are you still giving concerts on your own?
„Die Zeiten klingen zusammen, nicht im Sinne einer Harmonie, sondern oft genug als Widerspruch“, heißt es in einer Notiz von Hans Zender zu seinen „komponierten Interpretationen“, den künstlerischen Neudeutungen alter Werke. Es ist ein typischer Zender-Satz. Und am Schluss seiner Überlegungen zur kreativen Neulektüre alter Werke fasst er seine von wachem Einfühlungsvermögen geleitete Künstlerhermeneutik so zusammen: 
