Word: berge
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This is the Metropolitan Opera's second season under the joint leadership of Music Director James Levine, 34, and Director of Production John Dexter, 52. They are men of skill and self-assurance, and when they succeed, as they did last winter with Berg's Lulu, they justify the Met's often advertised suggestion that to buy one of its tickets is to "strike a blow for civilization." When Levine and Dexter miss, they raise worries about the wisdom of dual artistic control. Last week's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto was about...
John Hult, a former Rand Corp. scientist who heads his own firm, has a similar idea. He would like to wrap an Antarctic berg, mummy-fashion, in thick plastic and haul it to Southern California. Hult, who says he could do the job for a mere $30 million, calculates that he would lose only 5% of the berg's mass during the year-long trip. He would make up some of his immense costs by bottling a portion of the iceberg water in small flasks and then selling them as souvenirs for tourists. Says he: "The American public would...
These and other questions apparently did not cool Prince Faisal's ardor for the idea. He went so far as to predict confidently that he would have an iceberg in Arabia within three years. He had already succeeded in delivering a berg of sorts to Iowa, which had not seen one since the last glacier retreated, some 12,000 years ago. To dramatize his plan, the prince spent $5,000 to transport-by helicopter, plane and truck-a mini-berg of clear blue ice from Alaska's Portage Glacier to the conference, where it was chopped...
...world's great ensembles, he had a more progressive view of contemporary music than either of his two main rivals-Arturo Toscanini in New York and Serge Koussevitsky of the Boston Symphony. He gave the American premieres of both Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Berg's Wozzeck. He was constantly concerned with helping young musicians. That was why, at age 80, he helped to found the American Symphony Orchestra in New York in 1962. He had demanded and received huge salaries in Philadelphia ($110,000 a year at his peak), plus the income from radio...
...former member of the Children of God for two years, I can personally testify to the nearly incredible evils perpetrated by the group and its "prophet," David Berg...