Word: berge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ensuing week is singularly lacking in musical events. The Boston Symphony is on tour, treating New York with the latest Berg Violin Concerto which Dr. Koassevitzky presented here last week-end, and Symphony Hall will be empty except for Sunday afternoon when Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-soprano of opera, radio, and motion picture fame, will give a recital...
...Alban Berg's Violin Concerto will be played by Louis Krasner in its first American performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at this week's concerts. Berg, a disciple of the famous exiled German composer, Schoenberg, wrote this particular work while deeply affected by the death of one of his closest friends, Manon Gropius, the stepdaughter of Gustav Mahler. This concerto, while a requiem for her, is also the composer's swan-song for he died soon after. A great reputation has preceded this last effort of Berg, and it should prove significant...
...English golf galleries what "Patty"- redhaired, stocky Patricia Jane Berg, put out last week in the third round - is to golf galleries...
...industrial chemist, Friedrich Bergius was born in what is now the Polish Corridor, became assistant to Fritz Haber who won a Nobel Prize for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Bergius himself was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1931, now lives at Heidel- berg in close touch with its university...
...must concentrate, dear," purred a U. S. woman spectator to freckled, 18-year-old Patricia Jane ("Patty") Berg last week as they strode down a fairway of the seaside golf course at Southport, England. "I am concentrating hard," tearfully replied U. S. Golfer Berg, "but nothing happens." In spite of concentration, by the 18th hole Patty had missed five putts of less than five feet, lost her second-round match to Elsie Corlett of Lancashire. Other favorites fell even more quickly than Patty, whom British bookmakers had backed as the No. 1 U. S. entrant in the Women...