Word: berges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second half of the program, mezzo-soprano Paula Rasmussen, tenor Richard Clemont and bass Nathan Berg joined Christine Brewer along with the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus. The work, Beethoven's Mass in C, was definitely the highlight of the evening. Written in 1807 on a commission from Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy II, this was Beethoven's first setting of the Mass, and was a complete failure in the prince's eyes. Perhaps he did not appreciate Beethoven's extensive text painting (creating musical pictures of the text), and his application of personal feelings to the various parts of the mass...
...Cheryl Berg had 27 kills for the Sycamores...
...Scott Berg writes in his superb biography, Lindbergh (G.P. Putnam's Sons; 640 pages; $30), "radio, telephones, radiographs and the Bartlane Cable Process could transmit images and voices around the world within seconds...For the first time, all of civilization could share as one the sights and sounds of an event--almost instantaneously and simultaneously...
...Berg had the full cooperation of the Lindbergh family and access to some 2,000 boxes of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's personal papers. His use of this rich material is masterfully judicious. Lindbergh possessed a complex character that was part genius mechanic and part mystic. All his life he demonstrated a surprising, inner-directed capacity for intellectual growth. In the last decades of his life, regretting the effects of the worldwide aviation he had pioneered ("Every year," he wrote in his journal, "transport planes seem to get more like subway trains"), he campaigned as an environmentalist, circling the world...
CHARLES LINDBERGH Award-winning biographer A. Scott Berg (Max Perkins, Goldwyn) was granted total access to the aviator's vast archives. Berg's Lindbergh portrays the private man behind the public legend...