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Show Born 100 Years Ago, but His Music Inspires Anti-Axis Norwegians Today out the nation to pay him homage. In concert halls, on radio networks, net-works, in theaters, the song-poems of Grieg again were heard to bring to mind once more the saga of a man whose indomitable will to make music for his native Norway brought him undying fame. And that music, mu-sic, written in the last century, is the inspirational background for many of the songs sung by the Norwegian Nor-wegian underground workers; on the seas, 25,000 Norwegian seamen, manning the fastest and third largest larg-est of the Allied merchant fleet daily sing Grieg's musical tribute to the seafaring men of Norway, "Den Norske Sjomann." Thus, 36 years after his death, Grieg is participating, par-ticipating, in a very real sens, in his homeland's strong effort to throw off the yoke of Nazi tyranny. As a child he displayed an amazing amaz-ing musical aptitude, and at the age of 15 was well started on a musical career. Like so many great musical musi-cal composers, he found much inspiration in-spiration in the folk poetry, legends, music, and natural beauty of his native na-tive country Norway. One hundred years ago (this month) in the now Nazi-infested city of Bergen in Norway, was born a maker of music whose thrilling tone-pictures tone-pictures of a free nation serve as an inspiration, not only to enslaved Norwegians suffering under the Hitler Hit-ler heel, but to Norwegian-Americans and to all others who are fighting fight-ing to rid the world of Fascist des potism. This great composer was Edvard Grieg and on this centennial celebration of his birthday, such famous fa-mous American musical personalities personali-ties as Walter Damrosch, Serge Koussevitsky, Albert Spalding, Helen Hel-en Traubel, Leopold Stokowski, Howard Barlow, Charles Wakefield Cadman have joined hundreds of thousands of music-lovers through- |