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...infused the classics into every River City he hit in his wide tours with the Marines and later with his own band. Music from Wagner's opera Parsifal was heard in the provinces nine years before it got to New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Grieg marched with the Marines on most of their journeys across dusty prairies and over mountains...
...strikingly handsome six-footer with a flowing mane of shoulder-length hair, a piano conjurer able to summon near orchestral effects and rouse audiences to such frenzied emotional states that the poet Heinrich Heine coined the term "Lisztomania." "I think I laughed--laughed like an idiot" is how Edvard Grieg described his ecstatic reaction to Liszt's playing. George Eliot's recorded impressions of Liszt come very close to swooning...
...finale production number revealed more second-hand material. Significant plagiarism of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming" and Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" blemished the score, previously marked only by a humorous reference to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. The orchestra seemed weary as well, though its strong rhythm section pushed onwards...
Wylie was one of the first skaters to reach Grinkov's side after he collapsed during a Nov. 20 morning practice at the Lake Placid Olympic Center for the upcoming Stars on Ice tour. Grinkov and Gordeeva had been rehearsing a program set to the music of Edvard Grieg's Concerto in A Minor. (Coincidentally, Grieg's wife Nina, a singer, was his professional partner.) After the routine, Sergei told Katia he was dizzy and slumped to the ice. For the first time since they began skating together in 1982, it was Gordeeva who softened Grinkov's fall...
...fourth movement, an Air, Grieg mixes his lyricism with the staid and screne qualities reminiscent of Corelli's Concerti Grossi. Unfortunately, the viola section began to lose their intonation as they brought forth the Air's long lines. The quickly paced Rigaudon brought the group back into synch, though, and allowed Yoo to show off his own virtuosity as solo violinist...