Word: berges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra baptized itself Friday night in a sensuous swamp--Strauss' Don Juan, Berg's Violin Concerto, and Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique--and emerged after two hours smelling very sweet...
...Alban Berg's fine scores, expressively terse and textually dense, always pose the initial problem of hearing all that is essential. In the Violin Concerto, this dilemma assumes near-fatal proportions. The solo instrument is integrated into a large Wagnerian orchestra, which it must dominate with music marked mezzo-piano (or softer) seventy-five per cent of the time! Now Berg was no fool; the orchestra's dynamics are determined accordingly. But no orchestra can or will play continually softly, and the HRO proved no exception. The resulting acoustical imbalance seriously challenged the considerable prowess of violinist Charles Castleman...
...Announced the appointment of a 30-member National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber, to be headed by University of Minnesota Agriculture Dean Sherwood Berg, to make a thorough study of U.S. agricultural problems and recommend solutions...
Harvard moved up for a first down on Princeton's three-yard line. After uneventful dive plays, the Crimson was moved back to the Princeton 6 on an offsides penalty. Quarterback Peter Berg ran the ball back to the one-yard-line, but the Princeton defense held on the fourth down...
Tackle Bob Stack picked off one of Dartmouth quarterback Bill Robb's passes in the third quarter and returned it to the Green 10. Three plays later, quarterback Pete Berg threw to halfback Marshall Goldberg for the touchdown, and John Beaulieu kicked the extra point...