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...High Hinsdale, Ill. Smith, Hamlin 17 185 6.2 North Shore Winnetka, Ill. Smith, Harold T. Jr. 18 173 5.11 Berkshire Washington, D. C. Townsend, Rodman 18 168 5.11 St. Mark's Clermont, N. Y. Tully, William R. 19 175 6. Exeter Boston Wilner, John L. 18 158 5.10 St. Alban's Washington, D. C. BACKS Allis, Edward P. IV 18 153 5.9 Milton Milwaukee, Wis. Altmaier, Robert D. 17 145 5.8 Columbus Academy Columbus, O. Anderson, Douglas 18 160 5.9 Exeter Wellesley Brew, Donald A. 17 175 6. East Orange High East Orange, N. J. Arnold, Alan...
...erotic, tormented mind of the late Playwright Frank Wedekind, a woman named Lulu was a symbol of insatiability. His two plays about her (Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora) showed people helplessly racked by passion, preached: "Only children have reason; men are animals." Composer Alban Berg articulated the same opinion with his opera Wozzeck. When he based an opera on Wedekind's Lulu, Berg produced the most impressive monument of lust in all musical literature. When orchestral excerpts from it were played at the Berlin Staatsoper, extra police squads stood by to govern the crowds. Lulu was given...
Apparently undisturbed by the Symphony's usual productions, the bats remained dormant during the first number. But Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, second on the program, brought them out in full force. The birds searched frantically for an exit. Scratching and squeaking could be heard throughout the concerto in the dim upper recesses of the hall...
...Alban Berg's Violin Concerto will be played by Louis Krasner in its first American performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at this week's concerts. Berg, a disciple of the famous exiled German composer, Schoenberg, wrote this particular work while deeply affected by the death of one of his closest friends, Manon Gropius, the stepdaughter of Gustav Mahler. This concerto, while a requiem for her, is also the composer's swan-song for he died soon after. A great reputation has preceded this last effort of Berg, and it should prove significant...
...Italian who has bathed at Ostia, favorite beach of Il Duce, will be able to speed in electric cars, which already run to Rome, clear under the Eternal City and on up to his suburban home in the Alban Hills...