Lionel Rolfe Literary L.A., Chronicle Books: San Francisco, 1981, 102 pp., 1908.
" . . . By 1908 . . . George Sterling . . . was coaxing Sinclair to come west. So was another socialist, millionaire H. Gaylord Wilshire, after whom Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard was named . . . Wilshire had a gold mine in the Sierras, with two unusual . . . features: high wages and socialist propaganda . . .
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"It is surely not coincidence that in 1908 Schoenberg wrote some music for poems by Stefan George for voice and piano. Schoenberg regarded this work as his great "breakthrough"-melody and harmony almost completely drowned out by atonality-and he he believed that he had finally succeeded in his . . . claim of emancipating dissonance with his work . . ."