Word: grieg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week summer session; the teachers, many of whom play for northern symphony orchestras, got their expenses only. At week's end, the hard work paid off in a lively concert by the yo-piece student-teacher band before a crowd of 1,200. Main event of the evening: Grieg's Concerto in A Minor, with Guest Pianist Eugene List, the ex-G.I. who played for Truman and Stalin at Potsdam, as soloist...
...feet and cheered her for a full minute. As she left the stage after her fourth group of songs, she tripped and fell. The audience rose again in a hush that was loud with sympathy. They cheered again when she had finished singing her program of Beethoven, Schubert and Grieg...
...thing they like about her is her showmanship. Tall, green-eyed Pianist Joyce makes the most of her looks by frequent changes of dress and hairdo between numbers ("Sequins for Debussy," she once explained deadpan to a reporter, "red and gold for Schumann; hair up for Beethoven, down for Grieg...
...Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy admitted that Wagner had his points: the music of Parsifal is "incomparable and bewildering, splendid and strong...
...could be expected. The preoperative prayers were said with muted strings; the ether was given with dissonance; the incision and sewing up came with a clatter of busy brass and woodwinds. The non-medical found Composer Parris' music not quite surgically clean: it had echoes of everything from Grieg to Gershwin. But nobody denied that it was good...