Word: berg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round. This year at Memphis, again medalist in the women's national tournament. Mrs. Page refused to be flustered, stayed calm even through such matches as one in which her opponent after a lusty swing lost her skirt. So last week Mrs. Page met 19-year-old Patty Berg, runner-up to Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare in the national tournament two years ago, in the final...
After the morning round it was apparent that Patty Berg, favorite with sportswriters because of her snub nose, would be only runner-up again. Playing in a faded blue jersey and battered felt hat with tees stuck in the hatband. Mrs. Page was 3 up at the end of 18 holes. Imperturbable, one-putting on green after green. Mrs. Page was 7 up at the end of 27 holes, ended the match three holes later. "It was just my day, I guess," she said...
...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...
...Zurich last week Lulu the opera was given its world premiere before one of the largest, most brilliant audiences ever assembled there. Widow Wedekind and Widow Berg listened proudly to what may prove to be an opera as lasting as it is sensational...
Revolting as Lulu's career is in outline, Composer Berg dressed it in music too peculiar and powerful to be discounted. Throughout he used the twelve-tone scale he learned from Arnold Schönberg, to whom the opera is dedicated. Song forms are woven in so cunningly as not to be obtrusive. A sonata form announces the appearance of Dr. Schön; a rondo suggests his son. The whole orchestra converses gruesomely over one death, lyrically pleads when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, strikes an ugly dissonance of shrieking brasses when she is murdered...