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Russian Conductor Vasily Petrenko Says Orchestras “React Better” to Male Conductors
Mr. Petrenko is in hot water over his comments about woman conductors. Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko, in his first week of concerts as the Oslo Philharmonic's new music director, came under fire in the media for some comments he made to Oslo newspaper Aftenposten about women conductors. Swingin’ on the Gallows Pole: Harlots, Hugs and Haupstimme in Schoenberg's "Galgenlied" [TRANSLATION]
With a metrical duration of 13 measures (plus an anacrusis) and an overall existence of slightly less than 20 seconds, "Galgenlied"--the 12th of Arnold Schoenberg's 'Dreimal Sieben Gedichte' from the minor Belgian Symbolist Albert Giraud's '50 Rondels Bergamaques'--is the shortest, most concise movement of the former's 1912 melodrama 'Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21.'
