Word: berges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard K. Berg '51 was chosen as Political Action Director; John S. Spier '50, as Harvard Affairs Director; and Gootenberg as Public Relations Director...
...Berg: Lyric Suite (Galimir String Quartet; Vox-Polydor, 8 sides). In this suite, one of his last works, the late Alban Berg (TIME, May 31) put his teacher Arnold Schonberg's theories to test, came up with perhaps the best work yet composed in twelve-tone technique. That still doesn't make it very listenable to ordinary unpracticedears. Performance: excellent. Recording : excellent...
...members of the graduating Class of 1948, they are: Alma Cecile Benson of Middletown, Connecticut; Janice Alerta Berg of Brookline; Amy Ruth Cline of Brookline; Helene Pauline Katz of New York City; Sara Murdock Steinberg of Cambridge; Gladys Marilyn Susman of Brookline; Helen Bryna Wiseman of Mattapan; and Sandra Lee Wool of Uniontown, Pennsylvania...
...Composer Berg dedicated this work to his teacher, Arnold Schonberg. But he had not built it on Schonberg's "twelve-tone" technique.* Between two fast, brightly dissonant movements, Berg sandwiched a melodic slow movement that had listeners gasping: the themes build to a climax, then run backward to a close. 1914, even gave it a few licks while he was in the Austrian army. Its successful Berlin premiere in 1925 surprised Berg as much as anyone. He had expected to be booed; instead he got a dozen curtain calls. (The U.S. first saw Wozzeck in 1931; Manhattan audiences heard...
...Berg was fiercely proud of a Ford bought with the proceeds of Wozzeck. Once when a reporter wrote that he was "neglected and starving," Berg called up a friend: "It is necessary that tonight we starve better than usual; come and starve with us." They ate at one of Vienna's best restaurants. With his second opera, Lulu, unfinished, he died of blood poisoning...