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Though famed for having been the first major video artist, Paik was a classically trained pianist and composer who began his career following in Schoenberg’s footsteps by writing 12-tone music.

The West Coast premiere of Tod Machover’s opera ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ is a bizarre look at uncompromising modernism and entertainment.

The 90-minute opera is basically a phantasmagoria of how Schoenberg got here.

The two most influential classical composers of the first half of the 20th century, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, lived here.

Schoenberg revolutionized Western compositional techniques and helped shape modern music worldwide, but he also had a profound and still-present influence on the cultural life of Los Angeles.