Bartók in New York, Schoenberg in Cambridge, Beach in Boston

Grant Chu Covell

[July 2025.]

Bartók glowers sternly from a facade on West 57th Street in New York City: “The great Hungarian composer… made his home in this house during the last year of his life.”

Schoenberg’s ca. 1910 self-portrait, as viewed in the current collection of the Harvard Art Museums.

Beach’s plaque in Boston at 28 Commonwealth Avenue: “The first American woman to compose a symphony and perform with the Boston Symphony Orchestra lived here from 1885-1910.”