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Michael Tschudin wrote the un-Alban-Bergian but thoroughly appropriate score. He played it on piano and organ, accompanied by a beautiful blonde flute player from Juilliard reputed to be his girlfriend...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Woyzeck | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...Janssen conducting; Capitol, 1 side LP). Berg's masterful concert aria extols the qualities of wine ("I make your wife's eyes sparkle and give fresh strength to your son") in twelve-tone style. San Francisco Chronicle Music Critic Alfred Frankenstein explains the twelve-tone language (with Bergian illustrations) on the second side. Performance and recording: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...three grooves instead of one, to make them go straight, are judged on form. Ski-jump judges first picked 19-year-old Hans Beck of Kongsberg, Norway for two jumps of 232 and 208 feet. Then they changed their decision, ranked him second to another 19-year-old Kongs-bergian, Birger Ruud. Red-cheeked Ruud, who works in a gun factory, and whose older brother, Sigmund, finished seventh in the same event went 218 ft. on his first jump, 226 on his second, got 228.1 points to Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Lake Placid | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

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