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Despite the success of Blossom Time (Franz Schubert) and The Great Waltz (Johann Strauss) the rather obvious idea of building an operetta around the life of Norwegian Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg apparently occurred to nobody until a year ago. Then it suddenly burgeoned in the brain of Edwin Lester, director of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association. He proceeded to turn out one of the most lavish and expensive ($110,000) productions the Association has ever staged. Song of Norway opened in Los Angeles last fortnight and by last week, it was looking like...
...year ago when Bandleader Freddie Martin heard it and made a popular arrangement that was worn ragged in juke boxes from coast to coast. Rubinstein's proper version, riding the crest with Martin's adaptation, shortly rolled up a sale of an estimated 200,000 albums. His Grieg Piano Concerto, released by Victor in July, sold over 100,000 sets in its first three months...
...much-abused Tchaikovsky piano concerto had disappeared abruptly from best-selling and radio-plug lists, but another classic was in the offing-Grieg Piano Concerto, recorded by Bandleader Freddy Martin, who had started the Tchaikovsky boom...
...Concert Master: Gilbert and Sullivan 8:30 A program of Ballads: Wallace Stegner, Instructor in English. 8:45 Frannie Powers, Mike Brody, and others in return engagements with Wheaton field hockey team. 9:00 Hot Off the Record. 9:30 Radio Workshop Production. 9:45 Crimson Concert Hall: Grieg, Lyric Suite. Corelli, Christmas Concerto. Spanish Civil War Songs. 10:45 Bed Time Story. 10:55 News...
...Grieg, Sibelius, A. Conan Doyle...