Word: testa
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...were dancing to a tone-sick piano, Wozzeck going back for the knife, then wading into the water to wash him self, deeper, deeper until he drowned ? for these scenes and for an earlier one, in which the conscience-ridden Marie reads passages on adultery from the New Testa ment, Composer Berg has written music which critics unanimously pronounce the most powerful in any opera for years. Like his leading character it is neither lofty nor noble but it effectively describes Wozzeck, like the Wozzeck in Georg Buchner's play (TIME, March 16), as any downtrodden wretch tortured beyond...