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Song of Norway--at the Opera House--Another relic, this one not quite so worthwhile unless your'e particularly fond of Grieg's music...
Salt Lake Tabernacle (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Grieg's Nocturne, Mendelssohn's Arise, Rise Up, and other selections by choir and organ...
...there is short, balding-39-year-old Bandleader Freddy Martin-the man who has made more money from the music of Tchaikovsky and Grieg than the composers did themselves. By last week, Bumble Boogie (titled by Freddy's 14-year-old son, who thereby gets a cut in the profits) had sold a million phonograph records...
...doesn't cost him a cent. He has recorded Nutcracker Suite (an album of eight sides), Serenade for Strings and the theme of the Sixth ("Pathétique") Symphony, titled Now and Forever, with lyrics ("So it was fated, two hearts are mated . . ."*). He also recorded Grieg and Rachmaninoff piano concertos and last week did Dingbat, the Singing Cat, a dance perversion of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Says Freddy admiringly: "Tchaikovsky is the most commercial of all the classic writers." Martin believes there should be some honor among thieves of classical themes, and thinks...
...Seventh Veil is handsomely photographed, elegantly produced and acted with full romantic flourishes. It is a typical exhibit in Britain's current campaign to beat Hollywood at its own game (see above). The music includes the Grieg Concerto in A Minor, the Mozart Sonata in C Major and something called the Seventh Veil Waltz. Ghost Pianist Eileen Joyce and the London Symphony Orchestra perform superbly. But British moviemakers have learned more than expert photography from Hollywood: cinemaddicts will not be very much surprised to see at the end that Francesca's heart has really been yearning for True...