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...Meet Lulu, 15 and never been kissed...
Died. Alban Berg, 50, Australian composer (Wozzeck, Lulu); of blood-poisoning; in Vienna...
...erotic of all opera heroines has yet to appear on any opera stage. Beside her, Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk would seem a rural innocent (TIME, Feb. 11). The adulterous Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck is a colorless nobody compared with Alban Berg's Lulu, a symbol of insatiability conceived in the tortured mind of Playwright Frank Wedekind (Erdgeist, Die Büchse der Pandora). Sooner or later Lulu is bound to make her operatic appearance because of Composer Berg's reputation, the power of his music. Orchestral excerpts from Lulu have been played...
...opera's prolog Lulu is represented by a fearsome wriggling snake, an eternal destroyer, according to Composer Berg who makes her just as horrid in every scene which follows. She destroys one man after another, commits a murder which lands her in prison, weasels her freedom only to philander in Paris with gamblers, procurers, swindlers. End comes in a sordid London attic where Lulu is brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. Berg's orchestra then sounds out a shuddering scream. The New York Philharmonic took the cue faithfully, startled half its subscribers who still had to hear Soprano...