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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Victorian, red-and-gilt Metropolitan Opera House was transformed one night last week into a nightmarish, shriekingly demented world of sight and sound. The occasion: the Met's long overdue production of Wozzeck, by the late, famed atonalist, Alban Berg. It was one of the great nights in Met history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wozzeck at the Met | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...must be made. The three divas' pet dogs advance on him. Zinka's spitz, Nickie, growls; Maria's poodle, Toy, nips at his ankles; and Renata's poodle, New, crouches to jump. "Choose, choose, choose!" sing the divas, to some nightmare melody that sounds like Alban Berg played backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva Serena | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Canada's Christopher Plummer, a talented actor (Broadway's The Lark, TV's Little Moon of Alban), arrives in turn-of-the-century Miami, where he harkens to tales about Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), a red-bearded snake charmer off in the Everglades whose band of swamp angels (including such old Thespians as ex-Pug Tony Galento, Clown Emmett Kelly, Jockey Sammy Renick) pick off the wildlife like hungry dogs in a horsemeat factory. Modern hunters would do well to study their technique: every bird they shoot falls within 2 ft. of their boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein : "If it is all a total failure, the festival will nevertheless have been justified because it occasioned the first performance of Andrew Imbrie's Violin Concerto. It impressed me as being the most important composition of its kind since the Violin Concerto of Alban Berg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Star | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...first original play of its five years of faithful adaptations, the Peabody-Award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame rose to a level rare in the theater and rarer yet on TV. The drama: Little Moon of Alban, a lyric consecration of love and faith by young (30) Playwright-Actor James Costigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Compassionate Young Man | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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