Word: berges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVELYN LEAR AND THOMAS STEWART: ROMANTISCHE DUETTE (Deutsche Grammophon). This recording unites the husband-and-wife team in a sedate but romantic hoedown. Evelyn Lear, most noted for her flamboyant version of Berg's violently atonal Lulu, becomes a demure turtledove in Schumann's Fair Little Flower. Thomas Stewart, memorable for his dour and doomed Wotan, pours out Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More with as much authority as any cotton-pick-in' baritone in the business...
Over the Cracker Barrel. Ruggles has had to struggle harder than any other composer for answers to 20th century musical questions. Nobody else's methods-not Stravinsky's, Bartok's, Webern's or Berg's-would suffice. And so, what he worked out for himself was a tone-clustered, highly contrapuntal and dissonant style. By his self-imposed rules, no note in a melodic line could be repeated until eight or so others had intervened. His work has an atonal quality that often sounds like Schoenberg's middle-period serialism. Yet Ruggles...
WILLIAM D. BERG...
...recent visitor described Rich berg's today as a "rusty-spoon." Customers still take "epicurean pleasures" by ordering seven hamburgers for $1 while waiting for their cars to be greased and oiled outside. The sleazy dining room is decorated with a rack of used shotguns and rifles, draped with a six-foot belt of machine-gun blanks. The counter area is brightened with stacks of knives, machetes, auto parts and a shelf of used pistols...
MUNICH (June 22 to Aug. 10) is one continuous Fest, starting with Karl Richter's Bach Festival (June 22-30) through chamber music at Nymphenburg Palace (July 6-25) to the Bayerische Staatsoper's ambitious selection of operas ranging from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice to Berg's Lulu, via a sprinkling of operas by Munich's own Richard Strauss (July...