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Bergen, Norway, will be gay with folk dancing and flags for its third annual festival (May 26-June 7). Famed for its musical sons Edvard Grieg and Violinist Ole Bull, the city will feature Scandinavian music played by Bergen and Copenhagen orchestras. Star soloist: Russian Violinist David Oistrakh...
Spit in the Face. A few hours later, Edvard Kardelj, the No. 2 man in Yugoslavia, the man who prosecuted Djilas and is now running the country while Titc is away, spoke up. "Every honest man would spit in the face of 'politicians' of this type," he told a party gathering at Sarajevo. That Djilas and Dedijer should air their grievances abroad, he said, represents "a filthy blackmail of our democracy...
...trial for publishing articles which publicly criticized both the loose morals and the political rigidity of the party's top leaders, only two Yugoslavs spoke up in his defense. One was Djilas' exwife, Mitra Mitrovic. The other was Vlado Dedijer, who dared to take issue with Edvard Kardelj, next to Tito the most powerful figure in the government. "To speak quite frankly," said Dedijer to Kardelj, "I am not a robot and cannot automatically accept a view simply because of the authority of the man expounding it." Dedijer taunted the Communist Party for fearing new ideas...
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...
...chose three songs by Norway's Composer Edvard Grieg, followed by Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan and the last scene from Götterdämmerung. At the end, the international audience rose and shouted for a full five minutes while Kirsten Flagstad curtsied and smiled with tears in her eyes...