Word: berge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he has a fairly solid repertory in recital music and some grand opera (he once sang Modernist Alban Berg's Wozzek under Stokowski), Eddy knows on which side his short'nin' bread is buttered. His nightclub and concert audiences would rather hear Short'nin' Bread than Schubert. And as Eddy himself sings in his parody: "Mammy's little Nelson loves short'nin' bread...
...fellow students, Musicologist Slonimsky has catalogued his findings in a 30-page "Invecticon," listing the strongest and most piquant critical epithets alphabetically, with composers to whom they have been applied. Samples: advanced cat music (Wagner), belly-rumbling (Bela Bartok), bestial outcries (Alban Berg), bleary-eyed paresis (Tchaikovsky), chaos (Bartok, Berg, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Strauss, Wagner), intoxicated woodpecker (Edgar Varèse), lewd caterwauling (Wagner), mass-snoring (Bartok), nasty little noise (Debussy), spring fever in a zoo (Stravinsky...
...York's City Opera Company, which has made itself a fine reputation mounting such neglected modern masterpieces as Berg's Wozzeck and Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges, last week did a turnabout. It wet its thumb, leafed back through the decades, and uncovered a neglected oldtimer that had not been heard in Manhattan since the days of Andrew Jackson: Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). It left the opening-night audience whooping with delight...
...swinging hula that brought frowns of disapproval from the staid U.S.G.A. This year, playing for pro pay, Jackie has restrained her hulas, but her booming 240-yd. tee shots have taken the play-and some of the pay-from such old pros as Babe Zaharias and Patty Berg...
Last week, in the first round of the New Orleans Open tournament, Jackie banged out a men's par 72 to take a two-stroke lead over Patty Berg and Alice Bauer Hagge. Next day, Jackie slipped badly (81), dropped into a tie for third, then finished her final round with an 80, to finish in third place again...