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Bergen (June 1-15): the home town of Composer Edvard Grieg stages its second celebration. Emphasis on Grieg and other Scandinavian composers by a cast that includes such celebrities as Conductor Eugene Ormandy, Pianist Clifford Curzon...
...housewives who yearned to appear with a symphony orchestra got their wish when one directed the Denver Symphony (in Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King) and the other sang (Arditi's Il Bacio) with the orchestra accompanying...
...chose three songs by Norway's Composer Edvard Grieg, followed by Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan and the last scene from Götterdämmerung. At the end, the international audience rose and shouted for a full five minutes while Kirsten Flagstad curtsied and smiled with tears in her eyes...
Though far less fortunate than the plunder of Grieg a few years back, the raid on Borodin produces a few trophies. AT worst, there are atmospheric inter-Iudes of Hollywood Baghdad music, which permit the "Princesses of Ababu" to cavort around a palace pool obviously built in manual training class. At best, there are agreeable melodies with out-rageous lyrics, and two lively numbers, "He's In Love" and the first act finalo. In any case, the music helps Kismet to whirl with amiable vulgarity through thirteen scenes, and the New York businessman will probably find the show a godsend...
...Franz Liszt sighed as Misia Sert played the piano, "Ah, if only I could still play like that." Grieg asked her to play the Peer Gynt Suite with him. Ibsen presented her with his autographed portrait. Mallarme wrote poems to her. Verlaine read her his verse and wept. Toulouse Lautrec painted her picture, then tickled the soles of her feet with his brush. Bonnard did murals for her salon. Picasso made her godmother to his first child. Proust called her beautiful. Maillol asked her to pose for sculpture. "In you the image of immortality seems achieved," he wrote her. "There...