Word: berge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Victorian, red-and-gilt Metropolitan Opera House was transformed one night last week into a nightmarish, shriekingly demented world of sight and sound. The occasion: the Met's long overdue production of Wozzeck, by the late, famed atonalist, Alban Berg. It was one of the great nights in Met history...
...wonder of this sordid and symbolic tale is that it is suffused with compassion, heightened by the remarkable music Alban Berg wrote for it. The score, set in the tilted frame of nontonality, is carefully cast in a variety of classical musical forms: suite, passacaglia, sonata, fanatasie and fugue; scherzo, etc. The huge (113 instruments) orchestra sometimes bellows in brassy rages, sometimes shrieks in lines of shrill angularity, sometimes surprises with passages of softly breathing lyricism. The stark horror of the murder is conveyed in a howling, brassy crescendo in the orchestra that gives way abruptly to the tinselly tinkle...
...Majority of One (by Leonard Spigelgass). Problem: Can a plump Jewish widow (Gertrude Berg) from Brooklyn find enduring happiness with a rich Buddhist-Shintoist Japanese textile tycoon (Sir Cedric Hardwicke...
Majority might be subtitled Halfway Around the World with Molly Goldberg (radio and TV Actress Berg's 29-year-long other life). She is the past mistress of the eloquent shrug, the rising inflection, the beautifully timed thrusting palm-up, down and out-the gently jabbing elbow ("So-it's settled...
Since the Japanese have fewer jokes than the Jews in Playwright Spigelgass's accounting, Sir Cedric's poker-spined Mr. Asano is doubly inscrutable. He cuts the sweet wine of Actress Berg's sentimentalities by being...