Word: berge
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...Marilyn: An Untold Story, concentrates on Norma Jean's notorious love life, tracing her downward spiral to a drug- induced death in 1962. Soprano Kathryn Gamberoni gives a breakthrough performance as Monroe: after this, companies should be lining up to offer her femmes fatales from Bellini's Norma to Berg's Lulu. The opera, however, is as much of a mess as Marilyn was. Rosten's lines (Marilyn to her half-sister: "How's your little dog Lollie, the one with six toes?") are frequently ludicrous, especially when sung to Laderman's plodding, semitonal noodlings. And the decision to make...
...them are very appealing, especially Slater (Rory Cochrane), the resident drug fiend, who is always slouching around in a cute, grungy way making funny little comments. Some aren't appealing, like O'Bannion (Ben Affleck), the typical sexist jock bully. There are the two nerdy guys, Mike (Adam Gold-berg) and Tony (Anthony Rapp), who spend the movie philosophizing and screwing up courage to engage in appropriate senior activities, and the nice, shy girl, Sabrina (Christin Hinojosa). For the purposes of the movie they're all like the people you went to high school with, even if they really aren...
...death at Missolonghi there is scarcely a word. Such a conception might have worked had Thomson been a composer of passion and power, had he been able to write music commensurate with Byron's words and deeds -- had he been, in short, the Verdi of Otello or the Berg of Wozzeck. But he wasn't. (The score, which incongruously quotes both Did You Ever See a Lassie and Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, is like The Rake's Progress without the wrong notes.) And so there Lord Byron sits, as fresh, buoyant and uncomplicated as a summer...
...Sergei Koussevitzky in Boston and Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia were far more adventurous than their contemporary counterparts. Koussevitzky, the Russian-born bassist turned maestro, commissioned and performed dozens of new works by American composers, and Stokowski routinely surprised his audience with major premieres of challenging works, such as Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck. As the recent history of opera in America has shown, there are large untapped audiences hungering for something new. But as long as symphonies insist on treating their customers to the same handful of well-known works -- masterpieces though they may be -- symphonic music will lack...
Kafatos' new position is an extremely prominent one, said Professor of Biology Howard C. Berg. "It's one of the leading molecular biological labs in the world," Berg said...