Word: berg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Results of the H.L.U. elections for new officers were also disclosed last night. C. William Chastain '52 will succeed Dowd as president, while Richard K. Berg '51, Walter C. Carrington '52, and Walker La Brunerie, Jr. '51 will fill the posts of vice-president, treasurer, and secretary, respectively...
...overly concerned with where he stood in the great operatic tradition. He had not discovered anything brand-new, and he knew it. Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek and the late Kurt Weill had broken the ground for him in Germany in the '20s. Austrian Atonalist Alban Berg's gloomy Wozzeck had moved opera musically miles from the Verdis and Monteverdis...
...singing teacher at Stockholm's Royal Opera School had little fault to find with the little tenor's singing; what annoyed her was the tenor's persistent wooing of her pet pupil, pretty, blonde Soprano Anna-Lisa Berg. Marriage, she told them sternly, would be the end of Anna-Lisa's promising operatic career. She was right. Young, golden-voiced Tenor Jussi Bjoerling and Anna-Lisa were married. And while Jussi sang his way to the Metropolitan and world fame, Anna-Lisa set-to work to raise their family, instead of her voice...
...quite different from the somewhat eclectic Symphony No. 2 of Schuman they had first heard twelve years ago-and rewarded with "practically silence," as Schuman remembers it. A man who used to compose with one ear to Hindemith and Roy Harris (his teacher), the other sometimes to Atonalist Alban Berg, Schuman seemed to have found a little more of a style...
...like a surrealistic painting-with familiar and beautiful forms in unfamiliar relationships and in a dreamlike atmosphere." Another subtitled it "The id in search of itself." One Boston critic found it "crabbed and harshly dissonant"; another "wanting likability" and "without heart." But beaming Conductor Munch thought that "with Bartok, Berg and Bloch, it is one of the most important concerti." Bill Schuman himself, remembering the "practically silence" he once got in Boston, was mighty pleased with 2½ minutes of applause...