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Wiren: Serenade for Strings, Op. I I (Stockholm Radio Orchestra, conducted by Stig Westerberg; London). An appealing piece dating from 1937 by one of Sweden's standout composers. Like a good many other Scandinavian efforts. Dag Wiren's work avoids blatant modernity, but gets a fresh, airy effect by blending forthright melodic warmth with spicy dashes of dissonance...
...however, for there was no time. I had to burn my valuable letters; what ashes they made!" After hiding in Prague for three weeks Jakobson and his wife escaped to Denmark with the help of some friends. During the next year he and his wife shuttled all around the Scandinavian countries, finally settling in Oslo...
...through ancient Scandinavian literature. High Seats play a prominent part. A High Seat was a kind of throne and a symbol of authority. The seat also had a mystical quality. The Norse invaders of Iceland, for instance, threw the posts of their High Seats overboard and settled in the spots where the pieces drifted ashore...
...this time a sort of mass ecstasy was sweeping Sweden's archaeologists. One of them declared that the post "is literally worth more to us than a find of gold . . . It has unparalleled archaeological and cultural interest, as a link between west Scandinavian literature and east Scandinavian discoveries...
...with the state. But in 1953 Martin Luther's church is stronger, better equipped for this task, and more aware of it than ever before. Of the world's 68.5 million Lutherans, 41.6 million of them are in Germany, the rest principally in the U.S. and the Scandinavian countries. U.S. Lutherans, especially since 1945, have made a good deal of contact with their German brethren. Besides contributing some $24 million to German church welfare funds, they have perhaps shown the Germans how a church independent of the state can function...