Adonro Schnbert A Survivor from Warshaw

"Schonberg achieved the impossible, namely to stand up to the horror of the present in its extremest form, the murder of the Jews, in a work of art. For this alone, he would already desrve the gratitude of a generation that disdains him--precisely because one can hear the tremors of that unspeakable horror, which everyone is already trying to forget, in his music. If music is to avert the threat of its invalidation, the loss of its raison d'etre discussed above, it can only hope to do so if it achieves what Schonberg achieved in it."A 'Survivor from Warsaw': by confronting complete negativity, the utmost extreme, which makes manifest the whole constitution of reality...." Adorno PM, 455-56