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...Voldemar Ludig, an Estonian lawyer-businessman, was arrested in December 1940 and accused of being a British spy. The police interrogated him daily for six weeks. Before each session, the jailers softened him up by making him spend two or three hours in a tiny concrete cell in which he could not sit down, stand upright or lie down. "The box," said Ludig, "was illuminated by a very powerful bulb. [It gave] you a headache, and you were kind of blind after...
...Composer Ludig for 14 years arranged the incidental music for the late David Belasco's plays. Modestly he says of his Rhapsody in Steel: "I tried to do something like Honegger's Pacific No. 231 but of course it is not as great music...
...free concerts on a shell built over the Lagoon. Also playing at the Fair is the Detroit Symphony, since mid-June an "exhibit" of Henry Ford. Another Ford musical exhibit was a 22-minute cinema for which a symphony orchestra played a special score composed by Edwin E. Ludig, musical director of Audio Productions, Inc., licensee of Electrical Research Products...
...assembly of a Ford automobile. Thus not only did Mr. Ford manage to exhibit a cinema which attracts 6,000 Fair visitors daily but he shrewdly outmaneuvered General Motors, whose concession to have an actual assembly line on the Fair grounds was exclusive. To compose his music authoritatively Mr. Ludig visited Ford plants, discovered that their music "was in a sort of whole tone scale with a lot of overtones." He adopted certain rhythms like the poundings of hydraulic presses, used them as contrapuntal accompaniments to string and woodwind melodies. The factory whistle gave him trouble until he found...
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