Word: riegger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mostly, the Poles stamped for the same old warhorses the Clevelanders had played elsewhere-Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Don Juan, excerpts from a Ravel Daphnis and Chloö suite. There was little stamping-only applause-for newer works (by Wallingford Riegger, Samuel Barber, Paul Creston, Bela Bartok). Said Dziennik Polski: "The Cleveland Orchestra plays like one magnificent soloist . . . A thing like yesterday's concert was never before seen or heard here...
Reactions ranged from enthusiasm to bewilderment for works by Henry Cowell, Douglas Moore, Alan Hovhaness, Ulysses Kay, Ben Weber and Wallingford Riegger...
Future names on the festival program furnish a virtual Who's Who in American Music, including Composers Walter Piston and Roy Harris, Aaron Copland, Paul Creston, Wallingford Riegger, Henry Cowell, Norman Dello Joio...
...concert, which is free, will include selections from the music of Riegger, Sessions, and Milhaud...
...Riegger: Symphony No. 3 (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Columbia). Manhattan's Composer Wallingford Riegger, 69, was one of the "bad boys" of the 20s, and his symphony makes abundant use of tone clusters then fashionable. He is also interested in more stringent twelve-tone technique, and dips into that idiom every now and then. The work, which won the New York Music Critics Circle Award (1947-48), is full of dissonance, but consistently strong and appealing...