Word: berge
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Since its foundation in 1842, the Salzburg Festival has always featured Native Son Wolfgang Mozart, although other Austrians and some outsiders, e.g., Beethoven and Wagner, often creep in. One Austrian whose name was never mentioned in the same breath with Salzburg was Atonalist Alban Berg. But this year Berg made...
Last week the performance was a near sellout and a hit. Reason: Berg's tragedy of the simple soldier betrayed by his mistress proved to have so much stage impact that even traditionally conservative Austrians were bowled over. They hardly had time to notice the fact that Berg's music was full of wrenched, tortured and distinctly unconventional effects. Baritone Josef Herrmann sang the title role with pathos, but no mawkishness. Christl Goltz, currently one of Germany's most popular sopranos, was forceful as the wanton mistress. For Stage Director Oscar Fritz Schuh and Conductor Karl Boehm...
...full chromatic scale in an octave). The result hurt people's ears. "Just dissonance," they said, or, more simply, "Just noise." Schoenberg stuck to his guns, demanded the "emancipation of dissonance." Discords can become new harmonies, he said. He found a few disciples. The best known: Alban Berg, composer of the twelve-tone opera Wozzeck (TIME, April 23). New music, Schoenberg insisted, "must be music which, though it is still music, differs in all essentials from previously composed music...
...Patty Berg, a playoff for the cross-country Weathervane golf title (TIME, June 11), over Babe Didrikson Zaharias, by one stroke; at Great Neck, N.Y.; and the Western Open, defeating the Babe again in the second round, then Amateur Pat O'Sullivan, 2 up; at Philadelphia...
...following Seniors and one Junior were elected to Phi Beta Kappa June 16, William J. Adelson, Social Relations; Julius Binstock, Romance Languages and Literatures; Burton N. Bromson, Government; Samuel C. Butler, Economics; Sheldon L. Berens, History; Richard H. Berg, Government; Irwin M. Bravermen Biology; Howard M. Brown, Music; Harold L. Burstum, History and Science William N. Center, Far Eastern Languages; Joseph S. Clark, History and Literature; Stephen P. Clement, Jr., Biochemical Sciences; William A. Coles, English; Archibald C. Colidge, Jr., English; Joseph B. Dallett, Classics; Alfred David, English; Robert J. Davis, Astronomy; Robert G. Dederick, Economics Frank de Leeuw, Economics...