Word: berg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed claimed Jean Sibelius as one of the century's greatest composers, and since he outlived all major contenders for the title except Stravinsky, during recent years he reigned in almost solitary splendor. Yet, compared to such contemporaries as Richard Strauss and Debussy, to say nothing of Alban Berg and Prokofiev, Sibelius often sounded cumbrous and provincial. No major composer stood more stubbornly aside from the 20th century's musical revolutions or responded less to the shifting winds of musical development...
...second concert in the Harvard Summer School series will be presented at Paine Hall on Tuesday at 8:30, when Catherine Aspinall, soprano, James Wood, clarinet, and George Zilzer and Robert Middleton, piano, will perform works by Brahms, Hindemith, Berg and Schubert. The concert is open to the public without charge, it has been announced...
Patricia Jane Berg was bushed. The Titleholders Championship last week was the climax of the lady golf pros' long winter's tournament trek, and the rain-soaked, sidehill fairways of Georgia's Augusta Country Club course sapped the spring from Patty's 39-year-old legs. Between rounds she had to rub them with liniment; she even took an extra nap. "There's no doubt about it," she sighed. "It isn't as easy as it once was. Why, I won the Titleholders here in 1939 with four rounds averaging 80. Today I couldn...
...tense third round last week, Patty Berg dropped temporarily to third, two strokes behind 19-year-old Amateur Anne Quast, one stroke back of Mickey Wright. But on the final round the old pro stuck a shamrock in her hat and hit men's par on every hole except three. On those she shot birdies. She finished with a flashy 69. Her 72-hole total of 296 made her Titleholders champ, three strokes in front of faltering Anne Quast. It pushed her 1957 winnings to $3,863, highest of the lady pros...
Without Post-Mortem. Then the curtain descended. Shortly after Wallenberg was picked up by the NKVD, a Russian official in Stockholm declared: "Wallen berg is not really a prisoner. He committed some follies after liberation; therefore he had to be taken care of. He will return soon safe and sound...