atonality/post-tonality destroy the bourgeois?

i was just thinking...if schoenberg was tried to destroy the "decaying tonal music" of the bourgeois...did he succeed? i have a feeling that if i look at the events schedule for any philharmonic i will find the answer. in a sad way i think all he did was force people to cling that that "decaying" form of music even tighter than they had in the past.

no one ever really talks about whether schoenberg succeeded in destroying the music of the bourgeois, they just say that was his goal. i don't know why. it would be interesting if someone did some compelling musicological research into the effect of schoenberg's music on "bourgeois" music. maybe someone has and i just don't know about it?



...i always thought that wagner was an ugly antisemite but now i think he was just jealous. according to my opera studies professor, wagner borrowed quite a lot, in regard to musical elements, from halevy and when he was a poor and starving young composer he used to arrange halevy's operas for voice and piano. of course, i imagine, at the time it was quite fashionable to hate jews.

just a few days before carl arrives in london. i can hardly work on my fieldwork proposal, all i can think about is the moment when carl walks into the waiting area of heathrow airport with his shaggy amish beard and square glasses. woohoo.