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...Berg: Violin Concerto (Louis Krasner; Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinsky; Columbia). One of the meatiest, most listenable concertos of the century, played by the man who introduced it in 1936. Written in the twelve-tone technique, it combines all the nervous subtleties of that idiom with the undeniable decadence of Berg's own style, but still appeals strongly to the ear. More complex (and less appealing) is the piece on the reverse side: another great modern...
Violin Concerto, by Berg's teacher, Arnold Schonberg, which still has a reputation as the most difficult concerto of all. Both are on LPs for the first time...
Having introduced his characters, Jarrell finds nothing much for them to do. The talk ranges from Holbein to Mondrian, from Balzac to Thomas Mann, and from Beethoven to Alban Berg. But about all that happens in the whole course of the novel is that an English teacher dies and the music teacher hires a secretary. Wound up like talking clocks on Page One. each of the characters finally runs down by Page...
Martin H. Brownstein '56 and Irwin M. Berg '56, president and secretary of the Hillel Society respectively, told the CRIMSON yesterday that their primary objection was the presenting of one side of the issue at a time, but indicated that they would be satisfied if the U.N. Council announced before Asha's speech that he was only presenting the question form one point of view. Richardson replied that the Council had already intended to do this, and added that this should also pacify Mishael Zedek's 1G Israeli group in the graduate schools...
...Battle of Washington had given the Air Force a sensitive defense mechanism and an annoying passion for flamboyant publicity to drive its message home to the U.S. public, a proneness to leak its troubles to partisans in the press and in Congress when the infighting got tough. As Vanden-berg's Vice Chief of Staff, Nate Twining knew the infighting techniques as well as anybody. But when President Eisenhower promoted Twining to Chief of Staff last June, it was Twining's judgment that the long revolution was over, that the time had come to disband the rearguard...