Word: riegger
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...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...
...Incident leaps frenziedly in all directions, snatches at pantomime, dancing, choral singing like merry-go-round riders snatching at a brass ring. Artistically a desecration of Greek drama, Trojan Incident has nevertheless a mongrel excitement of its own: the tale flushes with pathos and movement, and some of Wallingford Riegger's music, such as the narrative chant The Song of the Horse, gives the story a rhythmic speed...
...Philadelphians-instrumentally the world's finest-through what many a critic pronounced "the poorest orchestral program of the year." Three U. S. works were introduced: Prelude to a Drama, by Sandor Harmati, conductor of the Omaha Orchestra; Study in Sonority (for 40 violins-title by Stokowski), by Wallingford Riegger, New York pedagog; Indian Dances, by Frederick Jacobi, of California...