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...meet in Salt Lake City, rotund (5 ft. 5 in., 190 Ibs.), taciturn Arnold Riegger, 39, a sometime airplane mechanic of Longview, Wash., who has broken nearly every trapshooting record in the last eleven years, blasted 300 clay pigeons out of the sky, running his streak to 1,307 for a new world record...
...provide Asian audiences with a rare sample of contemporary U.S. music, Conductor Scherman performed works by Wallingford Riegger, Virgil Thomson, Frederick Jacobi, Aaron Copland, discovered that they were just as warmly received as the repertory regulars-Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart...
...Riegger: Symphony No. 4 (University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Goodman; U. of Illinois Recording Series). One of the most consistently experimental of U.S. composers in a typically dissonant and percussive vein. The slow movement, taken from a dance score composed in 1936 for Martha Graham, is more loosely stitched and considerably less appealing than the rest of the work, but Composer Wallingford Riegger winds matters up in bold fashion with a striding, Western-flavored theme as muscularly rambunctious as an unfettered bull...
...performances of a program by Jose Limon and the 13 other members of his dance company were offered. With choreography by Doris Humphrey, "Variations and Conclusion From New Dance" proved visually striking with contrasting blue and orange costumes. Wallingford Riegger's music was neurotic and neomodal, and a bit static harmonically. "Ritmo Jondo," based on songs and dances of Spanish gypsies, suffered only from ragged strings in the orchestra...
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...