Word: berg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance was conducted, characteristically, by Erich Kleiber of the Berlin Staatsoper. This pleasant bald-headed gentleman (who, at the New York Philharmonic, is overshadowed by the severely classical Arturo Toscanini) has championed more modern opera than any other man in Germany. He directed the premieres of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck (five years before Stokowski gave it to Philadelphia), Frenchman Darius Milhaud's Cristophe Colomb (written to the libretto of French Ambassador Paul Claudel), Czech Jaromir Weinberger's Schwanda, scheduled for performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera next year. It was Kleiber's enterprising programs, as well as his sound...
...lightweight championship of the world from Al Singer, has been supposed to be washed out. Grounds for this belief: Canzoneri has dodged a return match with Billy Petrolic of Fargo, N. Dak., who gave Canzoneri a good pre-championship drubbing. He was also supposed to be afraid of Jackie Berg, holder of the junior welterweight title, a Britisher noted for his courage, his windmill style, his ability to block punches with his chin. In Chicago last week, Berg and Canzoneri climbed into a ring, shook hands and started work, Canzoneri boxing nicely and Berg, short-armed and unable to land...
...Composer Berg's music was perplexing at first. It had all the dissonances to be expected of a pupil of modernistic Arnold Schönberg. There were no conventional harmonies, no set songs. Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff (Wozzeck) sometimes spoke, sometimes sang his lines. Soprano Anne Roselle (Marie, Wozzeck's mistress) had music so hideously difficult that it defied full, smooth tones. Robert Edmond Jones's simple, color-splashed sets had more general appeal: a ghoulish eye set in a screen for the doctor's examining office; the elongated shadow of a stack of guns for the soldier's barracks; a festoon...
...unisonal crescendoes which announced the murder announced also that Composer Berg had music worthy of the superb production. Wozzeck with his hands all blood staggering into a tavern where people were dancing to a tone-sick piano, Wozzeck going back for the knife, then wading into the water to wash him self, deeper, deeper until he drowned ? for these scenes and for an earlier one, in which the conscience-ridden Marie reads passages on adultery from the New Testa ment, Composer Berg has written music which critics unanimously pronounce the most powerful in any opera for years. Like...
...They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed air and so absorb most of the shock. Since the boat will cruise at 3 knots during the 3,000 mi. under ice course of its Arctic journey, the danger of concussions...