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GEORGE PERLE : Adagio for Orchestra

Tuesday 13 April, 1993 – Carnegie Hall, New York

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, cond. David Zinman

In 1937, Perle made his first connection with the revolutionary innovations of Schönberg and his school when he came upon a copy of Berg's 'Lyric Suite'. “It wasn't until I came upon the 'Lyric Suite' that I realized that there was something going on in contemporary music that implied really significant new ways of thinking about harmony...”