Word: berge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minskys ran into palmy days. They advertised their show as the Folies-Bergeres of New York and were proud indeed of their "carriage trade": Otto Kahn. Horace Liveright, Frank Crowninshield. Gilbert Seldes, George Jean Nathan, who probably went to the National Roof less because it was like the Folies-Bergères than because it represented their country's one definite contribution to the theatre...
...Louis XIV, was a classical beginning far off the beaten track. Then there was Gabriel Faure, the French man who transmitted his fragile, elusive style to the more popular Maurice Ravel. Every song had its mood subtly, surely conveyed. Toward the end a ghoulish piece by Modernist Alban Berg (Wozzeck) was done so effectively that a sudden wail which came from the audience struck people at first as an overtone which be longed there. But it was a listener taken with a fit of epilepsy...
...came in a conclusion easier to reconcile with the radical middle-aged Schonberg. He wrote his last solo for a speaker, gave him specific notes to hit as he recited about the peaceful things in nature. Philadelphians instantly recognized this so-called sprechstimme as the device which Composer Alban Berg, a Schoönberg pupil, used with the same wailing effect in Wozzeck (TIME, March 16, 1931). Piccolos had a prominent part in this last orchestration, done ten years after the first. The strings had difficult chromatics to flurry through. But it never got noisy or jarring, never lost sight...
Every evening, a half hour after Pepsodent's Amos 'n Andy sign off, Pepsodent's "Goldbergs" sign on. This program, a continued story of the fortunes of a middle-class Jewish family, was created for her own amusement by one Mrs. Gertrude Edelstein Berg of Manhattan. At the instance of friends she offered it to NBC, which took it as a sustaining feature in 1929. The part of Mother Goldberg was taken by Authoress Berg herself, who said it represented her grandmother. Last July Pepsodent adopted The Goldbergs as a secondary battery to supplement their Amos...
...Lehmann, pride of the Chicago Opera, now starting to give concerts in the U. S. Soprano Lehmann is a heavy, Teutonic woman. Her program listed pure German Lieder. But people who tried to get in at the last minute were greeted by a big HOUSE SOLD OUT. Soprano Ljung-berg was one of many musicians who crowded in to hear Lehmann round out each song with marvelous warmth and eloquence...