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...schemes -- an important activity for a company director. The year 1992 stirs his imagination: What can he do about Columbus? Another quandary: How to get the troupe to Vienna so he can knock their socks off with a homage to the city featuring ballets set to Mozart, Strauss, Webern, Berg and others? Although the details are not yet final, City Ballet's next gala attraction will be a festival of American music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Peter Martins' Little Nothings | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...teacher and, in turn, the state. An attentive father who travels everywhere accompanied by his second wife Katya, a Hungarian, and son Piotr, 7, Lyubimov will next mount an adaptation of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard in May and Berg's Lulu at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in November, followed by a string of European dates. He describes himself unhappily as "homeless" but says he would like to educate his son in the U.S.: "Here, schoolchildren would give a great diversity of answers in their essays about Crime and Punishment. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Soviet Exile's Blazing Debut | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...BERG: VIOLIN CONCERTO; THREE ORCHESTRAL PIECES (CBS). Violinist Pinchas Zukerman and Conductor Pierre Boulez in two powerful 20th century landmarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of '86: Music | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...When it comes to language, however, Californians showed little tolerance for speaking in foreign tongues. In polyglot California, where Spanish is practically a necessity and Korean is not a rarity, voters passed a measure making English the "official" language. Many saw the vote as a sign of xenophobia. Larry Berg, a professor of political science at the University of Southern California, describes the vote as reflecting "no-nothing, nativist resentment toward this massive influx of people." But former Senator S.I. Hayakawa, a formidable semanticist who led the crusade, promised it was not meant to homogenize Californian life. * "If you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Notebook of Tall Winners, Big Losers, Frogs and a Bird | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Howard C. Berg, professor of cellular and developmental biology, before beginning his lecture on bacteria movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notable Quotables, | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

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