Word: riegger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foot with a heavy, canelike conductor's baton while leading an orchestra; Charles Valentin-Alkan (1813-1888) toppled a bookcase over on himself while reaching for a copy of the Talmud; Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) came down with cholera after drinking a glass of tap water; and Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) suffered fatal brain damage when he became entangled in the leashes of two fighting dogs and fell on a sidewalk...
Arias and Arabesques (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A double-threat special featuring Composer Douglas (The Ballad of Baby Doe) Moore's opera Gallantry-starring Martha Wright, Laurel Hurley, Charles Anthony and Ronald Holgate-and a ballet, Parallels, based on a composition by Wallingford Riegger and choreographed by John Butler. Jan Peerce is the master of ceremonies...
Died. Wallingford Riegger, 75, versatile composer whose music, ranging from the romantic (La Belle Dame Sans Merci) to the atonal (Third Symphony), won prizes and international acclaim, and whose arrangements, under various pseudonyms, of everything from sacred music to Shortnin' Bread earned him a living; of head injuries after he tripped over a dog's leash; in Manhattan...
...touched a piano since he enlisted in the Navy at 17 in 1944. His constant preoccupation on the job with music listening and concert going has given him a set of musical references that ranges from Pal Joey to Wozzeck, and a special affection for Verdi, Brahms, Wallingford Riegger and Charles Ives...
Last week's concert displayed the early Riegger in Blue Voyage (1926), a shimmering, almost Debussyan mood piece; the later Riegger in Variations for Violins and Violas (1957), a series of brief, busy, crotchetily rhythmic episodes that exploded in the ear as strangely as a satellite's call; and finally the less flamboyant, middle-ground Riegger in the serene, elegant textures of Canon on a Ground Bass by Henry Purcell (1951). Not included was the work for which Riegger is perhaps best known-his Third Symphony (1947), which won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award...