MixTapes

Audio / Video files of songs mentioned in the story OR music to complement the story.

Schoenberg believed he was writing not a fascinating epilogue
to the history of Europe's great music (which is how I tend to see his work) 

but the prologue to a glorious future stretching farther than the eye could see.

 ... the songs of Voskovec and Werich from the 1930s, so loved by her father,
who died when she was a child ....

He (Schoenburg) faults Igor Stravinsky for paying too much attention to his contemporaries
and disregarding the judgment of the future.

He was conversing with the greatest Germans, with Bach and Goethe and Brahms and Mahler, but , however intelligent they might be, conversations carried on in the higher stratospheres of the mind are always myopic about what goes on, with no reason or logic, down below:
two great armies are battling to the death over sacred causes;
but some minuscule plague bacterium comes along and lays them both low

The mother set the disk into a big player and pressed several buttons to program the pieces she liked, then she plunged into the bathtub, and with the door left open, she listened to the music. It was her personal selection of four dance pieces, a tango, a waltz, a Charleston, a rock-and-roll, which through the machine's technical prowess played over and over endlessly with no further intervention.