Word: riegger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear: "We are looking for two kinds, the kind that reacts to the crude life around us, and the kind that creates a remote world that is far from everyday life." Stokowski has a strong feeling for the second kind, promises new fantasies by such composers as Modernist Wallingford Riegger and Tapesichordist Vladimir Ussachevsky (TIME, Nov. 10) for future CBS network programs...
...plays his share of classics, but finds that Europeans have a high "anticipatory interest" in contemporary U.S. music. In response, he has played about 90 American scores in the past 18 months. Among the composers whose works have had European hearings under Dixon are Charles Ives (Third Symphony), Wallingford Riegger (Canon and Fugue for Strings), Howard Swanson (Short Symphony...