This work is closely associated with Adieu.  It is basically an oboe quintet version of the piano and oboe piece.

https://youtu.be/t0skwHxe-bU

This has been the most sustained conversation I have had on this site.

Thank you very much.  Composers tend to write for the forces that are available to them so that they can get their music played by the musicians they admire.

Lively and a bit wild. Not playful... in a simple sense.
Not sure if anyone is going to like this one.

https://youtu.be/1bunN6u3J4I

It's me. I just can't imagine them hitting it off. I think of them of opposites.

Extraordinary!

Arnold Schoenberg and George Gershwin were connected by profession, religion (both born Jewish - Gershwin's Russian name is Gershovitz) and locality (both lived in Los Angeles). Despite the kind words, I don't think they had much else in common.  In musical taste, musical upbringing and musical outlook, they were polar opposites.  I think the warmth of the epitaph is mainly out of respect for a fellow musician and religious fraternity; something which would have been expected in that era.

I can't agree with you on any of these points. In fact, Schönberg did his best work after 1908. He is also a significant German song composer, comparable to Wolf,  Richard Strauss; maybe not quite in the same league as Mahler.
Native Americans are American Indians as far as I know! George Crumb is an excellent example of an American composer who could easily cross the Atlantic. If you are into modern music, there are whole channels on YouTube of similarly talented American composers. Not many countries around the world have generations of great composers. Austria, Germany that's about it. America has a recent history and a fair share.

Problem with multiple quoting - it takes the top quote as being the one for all of them.  I didn't know it was going to attribute it to you, ahinton, sorry.

Why not. Why should composers use the most common place notation all of the time? Bach used a lot of 32nd notes. I never heard any complaints about that.

Stravinsky asked him how much he earned.

Schoenberg also rejected him as a pupil. 

Everybody speaks nicely about people when they are dead!

Do you think Schoenberg really respected Gershwin? I think it all sounds a bit patronising.

Sorry, I am really confused.  How did we get from the 'human voice' to 'Boulez'?  Is that your answer or are we talking about a different subject?

Ahinton, surely you're not blaming the 'human voice' for the annoying things about modern composers, are you? (Or maybe you mean the other way around - I am totally confused!)

I am intrigued as well.  Why the human voice? Strictly speaking it is nothing to do with modern composers.