Life, work of Schoenberg will be focus

Local composer and music instructor Donivan Johnson will discuss the life, music and paintings of Arnold Schoenberg in this year’s Hans Moldenhauer Memorial Lecture on Monday at Whitworth College.

Schoenberg, who lived from 1874 to 1951, was a painter, music theorist and composer known for developing the 12-tone compositional technique, which involves a nonrepetitive ordering of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale.

Johnson, music instructor for Northeastern Washington’s Selkirk School District, started the lecture series in 1994 in honor of the late Spokane musicologist and Whitworth graduate Hans Moldenhauer.

Monday’s lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in Whitworth’s Music Building Recital Hall. Admission is free; for more information, call (509) 777-3280.

Johnson also will discuss and play selections from Schoenberg’s music on Monday at 9 a.m. on KBPX-FM (91.1).