Word: berges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study of his 14-room house in Nyack, N.Y., and just finished in time. As curtain time approached, he was feeding the score to the singers five pages at a clip. The time is ripe for good opera, Ward believes, but he deplores the tendency-exemplified in Alban Berg's Wozzeck-to shift the dramatic emphasis from singers to orchestra. "Everything must happen in the voice," says Ward. "Opera belongs on the stage, not in the orchestra...
...contrasting warmth of Gertrude Berg almost saves Mrs. G. Goes to College (CBS), although the situation itself is both sad and saccharine: a widow in her 50s enrolls as a freshman at U.C.L.A. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who also played opposite her in Broadway's A Majority of One, helps a bit, but nothing can be done with a script that sets its sights along "the hippopotamus of a right triangle.'' And Car 54, Where Are You? is a question that does not deserve an answer. An NBC show written by Nat Hiken (who wrote Sergeant Bilko...
...Goes to College (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. Broadway's A Majority of One team, Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, in a new series about a matronly widow and a Cambridge University exchange professor...
...single-party governments most interesting; it is a concise explanation of the authoritarian single-party system, which, the author rightly concludes, "will become a general pattern in African states." A second most interesting contributing is the article on African law, by Boston lawyer Archibald McColl, which, like Elliot Berg's survey of American industry in Africa, presents hard facts. Jeffrey Butler's article on Africa's new leadership suffers most from pious generalization--e.g. "the quality of leadership will continue to be of crucial importance...
...with the lavish production put on by the Bavarian State Opera which featured Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Soprano Ingeborg Bremert, and they were unanimous in their praise. Said the authoritative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Henze has arrived at the point of decision. All the lessons which he learned from Verdi, Berg, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Britten and Weill have been absorbed in his tremendously creative feeling for sounds and his sense of the dramatic." This mixture of old and new, of atonality and traditional harmony, was precisely what Henze was after. It was a synthesis that he had been building for a long...