Word: berg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other works which will be heard are: Berg's four pieces for clarinet and piano, three songs by Berlioz and Stravinsky's new tow piano concerts...
...Harvard Music Club will give a concerts in Paine Hall at 8:15 o'clock, presenting works of Szymanowski, Berg, Mozart, Bertiez, and Stravinsky...
...spite of pea-soup fog and icebergs. The disaster, supervised for seafaring technique by Sea Captain Frederick Fleugal and for special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through the fog-is done with glass on a split screen. The collision itself is a miniature. The hysteria at the lifeboats, the singing of Nearer, My God, To Thee were made on a life-scale ship...
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...
Boston and New York have each heard Berg's last work, the Violin Concerto, performed by the Boston Symphony during the past fortnight. The reviews in both cities have been notably lukewarm, and a general impression of too much saccharine seems to have been received. It now remains for Cambridge to hear it in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening and to add its own judgment. The Concerto aroused considerable comment abroad, partly because of its romantic origin and partly as a result of the controversial nature of the work itself which is a product of a leading light in the Schonbergian...