What happened at the 1951 Darmstadt performance of music from Moses und Aron?

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Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room. — Arnold Schoenberg Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential teachers of music composition of the 20th century. He also was known for his creation of new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row.

On July 2, 1951, the conductor Hermann Scherchen performed the "Dance Around the Gold Calf" from Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron at the Summer School for New Music in Darmstadt, West Germany. The performance was a great success, and the telegram informing Schoenberg of this reception was one of the final sources of pleasure for the composer before his death 11 days later.1