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...calculated shock treatment worked. Toiling through the night, Berg and his committee drafted recommendations that the conferees readily accepted before their departure the next day. They voted not only to continue the ban on the worrisome experiments, but also to press NIH to establish levels of safety that should be required for different experiments. In addition, they decided that precautions to keep research organisms from escaping from laboratories had to include "biological containment." This required the creation of mutated strains of E. coli so disabled that they could live nowhere but in a test tube. If they did escape their...
During rehearsals there had been more excitement than usual among the stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera. Alban Berg's classic 20th century opera Lulu was being mounted for the first time in the company's history, but that was not it: to stagehands one opera is as memorable as another. What held their eyes was a makeshift dressing room right behind the sets. No wonder. The star of the show would regularly dash into it for a series of quick costume changes, some of her garments being scantier than others. As the opening-night audience soon learned, Soprano...
Special Problem. Conductor James Levine and Stage Director John Dexter, the duo currently guiding the Met's artistic fortunes, have come up with a brilliant Lulu. Levine unravels Berg's intricate, absorbing twelve-tone score in an almost chamberistic way, keeping all voices and orchestral strands balanced and clearly audible, yet summoning up a kind of debauched expressionism when that is called...
...production of Lulu has a special problem. Berg had not finished the orchestration of the third and last act when he died in 1935. In the years thereafter and in her will (she died last August), Berg's widow steadfastly refused to allow publication of his sketches for the act. Yet one who has seen them, American Composer George Perle, says that they are complete enough to make orchestration a relatively easy matter...
...hill in Jackson, Miss., Diana Berg flagged down a milk truck and warned the driver against going so fast. "Oh, don't you worry about me," he said. "I'm from Illinois. I can handle this stuff. Want a joyride?" Berg declined, then watched the truck slam downhill into a Volkswagen and another truck. Amazingly, no one was hurt. Says she: "My jaws were frozen into a laugh for about an hour...