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Claus Bahnson, pianist and conductor from Copenhagen, Denmark, now teaching at the University of Rochester, will give two musical programs here next Monday and Tuesday. Bahnson will lecture on the psychology of music with piano illustrations, in Agassiz House, Monday, and give a piano concert featuring contemporary Scandinavian music in Phillips Brook House, Tuesday...
Sturdy Swedes. Covering such a course in a slow walk would be a trial for the average athlete. Sturdy Scandinavians turn the wild cross-country scrambles into punishing foot races. Known officially as "orienteering," the sport dates back to 1918 when the first Swedish club was formed to hold formal competitions. Unofficially, historians trace the race's origins across 1,000 years to a time when Scandinavian sentries guarded long lonely frontiers. Then, long-winded runners were the only means of communication with threatened inland settlements...
...show of Wiinblad's work last week transformed the third floor of Georg Jensen Inc., the Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian good taste, into a strange place, half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested...
TRANSPOLAR FLIGHTS between California and Scandinavia may be operating by fall. Following successful trail-blazing flights by Scandinavian Airlines' DC-6Bs, the State Department and CAB have offered approval for the service provided that a U.S. airline is granted the same right...
Bergen (June 1-15): the home town of Composer Edvard Grieg stages its second celebration. Emphasis on Grieg and other Scandinavian composers by a cast that includes such celebrities as Conductor Eugene Ormandy, Pianist Clifford Curzon...