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Eighteen Yardling ball players were selected last night by Coach Adolph Samberski to make the annual Spring Trip. The first game will be played on Tuesday, March 31 in Baltimore, Maryland, with the Gilman School. Teams from Mercersburg, St. Alban's, and Staunton will also...
...Died. Alban Berg, 50, Australian composer (Wozzeck, Lulu); of blood-poisoning; in Vienna...
...most luridly erotic of all opera heroines has yet to appear on any opera stage. Beside her, Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk would seem a rural innocent (TIME, Feb. 11). The adulterous Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck is a colorless nobody compared with Alban Berg's Lulu, a symbol of insatiability conceived in the tortured mind of Playwright Frank Wedekind (Erdgeist, Die Büchse der Pandora). Sooner or later Lulu is bound to make her operatic appearance because of Composer Berg's reputation, the power of his music. Orchestral excerpts from Lulu have...
...outline. But Berg's music was not to be discounted. Murky, rumbly drums actually suggested an evil, brooding power. The entire orchestra chattered over one gruesome death, grew lyrical when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, reached an awful climax when Lulu was slain. Austria's Alban Berg is one of the few real modernists who has been able to write effective theatre music, subduing atonality and the twelve-tone scale to a truly urgent feeling. Critics were unable to agree on Lulu's worth last week. Olin Downes of the New York Times pronounced...
With Roman temperatures averaging 77° last week and likely to go higher in August and September, 78-year-old Pope Pius XI directed his household to make ready to move out this week for a two-month stay at Castel Gandolfo. the rustic papal snuggery in the Alban Hills...