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...hall, his audience was, as usual, two-thirds women, from bobby-soxers to grandmothers. They basked happily as his performances washed over them: folk songs, show tunes and his own arrangements of such classics as Debussy's Clair de Lime and Grieg's Concerto, most of which he played with artfully simplified fingerwork in the frillier runs. For a topper, he opened up his laryngitic baritone in a perennial favorite of the middleaged, September Song. When it was all over, he dangled his feet over a corner of the stage, signed his pictures, shook hands and accepted embraces...
...Vivian Rivkin; Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Dean Dixon; Westminster). MacDowell, a contemporary of Debussy, is one of the few U.S. composers whose seat in the hall of fame is already secure, and his concertos were his entry ticket. Their style is closer to the romantic outbursts of Grieg and Schumann than to the moderns, and Pianist Rivkin gives them a rousing romantic reading while her conductor-husband gives her firm orchestral support...
...game should be close. Leading Dartmouth will be Fred Grieg, a smooth forward who is ninth in league scoring as of last week with 114 points...
Shepard believes Grieg is one of the three of four best players in the Ivy league. "He is certainly the most under-rated," he said...
...Danes need not have been apprehensive. In Manhattan last week they played a program of Stravinsky, Dvorak, Grieg and Danish Composer Carl Nielsen, and thoroughly captivated a big audience in Carnegie Hall. The Danes were more relaxed and easygoing (and a bit less precise) than most top U.S. orchestras. They bowed their strings lightly, making bright, pure threads of sound. The brasses were not particularly powerful, but they sounded as mellow as if the instruments were made of soft copper. The horns-prone in any orchestra to skid off their notes-were as secure as a pipe organ...