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  • Berlin Music "Festtage 2011" is a classical music festival, featuring Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" and Wagner's "Die Walküre," alongside various concerts.

    What's on Around Europe 2011

  • And when you listen to the Eighth and the Ninth, you hear anticipations of Alban Berg and further things that you will find again in Stravinsky and in Messaien, and which you also find again in John Adams.

    Bruckner in a New Light Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • Something in the Alban Berg's playing made it obvious: Schubert, at 31, knew he was dying, and had composed a love letter to the world that was as sweet as it was sincere, full of anguish, acceptance, anger and serenity.

    Guardian young arts critic competition 2011: Our critics' picks 2011

  • Paris 'Lulu' Opera Austrian composer Alban Berg based his tragic opera "Lulu" on Frank Wedekind's play "Pandora's Box," and created a lasting portrait of an iconic seductress.

    What's On Around Europe 2011

  • Christopher Serra An illustration of James Levine If the revelatory performance of Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" that Mr. Levine, who is 67, turned in on April 13 is any indication, he's not ready to hang up his baton anytime soon.

    Forty Years and Change Heidi Waleson 2011

  • Along with the entire oeuvre of Channel 5, Gummer's guidelines might have suppressed, among other things, Sickert's Jack the Ripper's Bedroom, Alban Berg's Lulu, Capote's In Cold Blood and, more recently, Andrew O'Hagan's The Missing, which was part-published within months of James Bulger's murder in 1993 and is now due to be staged in September.

    We shouldn't make entertainment out of others' tragedy | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • So in his latest programme, Gruber's violin concerto Nebelsteinmusik, with its allusions to Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, is preceded with music by Ives (Three Places in New England) and John Adams (My Father Knew Charles Ives) and followed by the Concerto for Orchestra by Gruber's teacher Gottfried von Einem to whom, not coincidentally surely, Nebelsteinmusik is dedicated, and from the spelling of whose name some of its material derives.

    This week's new live music 2011

  • Next week, 30-year-old Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel will make his Easter Festival debut, when he guest-conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a program featuring Alban Berg's "Seven Early Songs" and Stravinsky's "The Firebird."

    A Classical Life in Allegro J. S. Marcus 2011

  • At points it sounds like Alban Berg meets Anton Webern in Hollywood by way of Havana, but most of the time it sounds like nothing you've ever heard or that your ears could even imagine.

    The Jazz Scene: Birthdays and Mermaids Will Friedwald 2012

  • Something in the Alban Berg's playing made it obvious: Schubert, at 31, knew he was dying, and had composed a love letter to the world that was as sweet as it was sincere, full of anguish, acceptance, anger and serenity.

    Guardian young arts critic competition 2011: Our critics' picks 2011

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