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...them: Davenport's Roman Catholic Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, Des Moines' Methodist Bishop Charles W. Brashares, Des Moines' Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer. They just missed a chance to watch a typical example of cooperation in action. Fortnight before, a young Southern Baptist minister, the Rev. Kenneth P. Berg, had passed his oral examination for his Ph. D. in religion. His examiners, who learnedly discussed his thesis on Calvinism : Dr. M. Willard Lampe (Presbyterian), the School of Religion's director, Dr. Marcus Bach (Evangelical and Reformed), Father Robert Welch (Catholic), the Rev. Cyrus Pangborn (Congregationalist). Rabbi Frederick Bargebuhr...
...Patty Berg, low first-round honors in the Richmond Women's P.G.A. Open golf tournament, a dazzling 64 strokes, setting a women's world competitive record (the old one: 66, held jointly by Mrs. Opal Hill and Babe Didrikson Zaharias); at the Richmond (Calif.) Country Club's par-72 course...
...York City Opera's new director, Joseph Rosenstock, wanted to make a splash with his first new production. He picked just the right high-diving opera to do it with: Alban Berg's 27-year-old atonal masterpiece, Wozzeck. Ever since Dimitri Mitropoulos' stunning concert version in Carnegie Hall last year (TIME. April 23), critics and audiences have been clamoring to see a stage version...
...title role, Rosenstock borrowed Baritone Marko Rothmuller, a onetime Berg pupil, from London's Covent Garden (from which he also borrowed the English translation). Rothmuller was a sympathetic character as the cloddish, hallucinated soldier, but vocally he turned out to be a bellower. Soprano Patricia (The Consul) Neway was miscast as Marie: she was more of a heart-wringing Tosca than the faithless tart she was supposed to be, and she screeched in her attempt to be heard over the orchestra...
What did come off, despite all misfortunes, was Alban Berg's uniquely powerful score. Even the Daily News had to conclude that "the amazing thing . . . was to find Wozzeck so holding, in spite of the handicaps of its presentation...