Word: berge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milan's La Scala heard Alban Berg's atonal opera Wozzeck for the first time last week and, somewhat to its own surprise, was impressed...
...Texas. The part of the plodding, unhappy Wozzeck went to Italian Baritone Tito Gobbi. Milan admired them both. Another successful touch was the scenery; instead of going in strong for realism, Designer Gianni Ratto made his sets shadowy and changeable, to keep the audience under the emotional spell of Berg's music...
...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...
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...