LA Times

The voices of Angela Davis and Lech Walesa, via piano

8 years ago Lily Garner
In 1951 composer Arnold Schoenberg dictated from his Brentwood home a letter to Dial Records to protest in the most abusive language he could muster the company’s recent release of his “Ode to Napoleon” using a female rather than a male reciter. “You are not only a bugger,” Schoenberg irascibly...