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Upshaw returned for slightly more modern music: Berg's Seven Early Songs, begun in the composer's twenty-first year. The music is motley, elusive stuff that manages to sound at times like Schumann and at others like Schoenberg. The poetry of the seven different poets is altogether better and fresher than the Schubert texts. Of special literary value is Rilke's text for the fourth song, "The Crown of Dreams," but the musical hair-raisers were the first ("Night") and seventh ("Summer Days"). In each, Upshaw's intonation and delivery etched certain phrases in the mind: "Gib acht" ("give...
...tall, thrice-divorced bachelor hobnobs with the President (Bill Clinton is unlikely to turn down his calls since Ellison was one of his top individual donors in last year's election) and is friends with Jack Kemp, who once sat on his board of directors. Jeff Berg, the Hollywood power agent who represents clients like Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson, is a buddy. Michael Milken, the reclusive financier, is an intimate adviser. Ellison, friends will remind you, is the richest man in California...
...Berg cautioned that students should not write a thesis looking for future rewards. Instead, "a passion for [the subject] now" should guide the decision...
...should make that decision without regard to how it's going to advance your career a year from now," Berg said...
...Berg said applicants should not merely state on their application that they wrote a thesis, but should be "proactive...