Lögberg-Heimskringla - 03.10.1963, Blaðsíða 3

LÖGBERG-HEIMSKRINGLA, FIMMTUDAGINN 3. OKTÓBER 1963
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field drilling equipment was
brought into use in 1958. The
new drilling rig is capable of
drilling wells down to a depth
of 7,500 feet. At present 22
wells have been completed
with this rig. Their depth
ranges from 2,000 down to
7,200 feet. The total flow of
hot water available from all
wells in the city is about 5,000
gallons per minute and most
of this water has a tempera-
ture of 275 degrees F. This is
a substantial addition to the
capacity of the Reykjavik Mu-
nicipal Hot Water Supply Sys-
tem. The system is now being
enlarged in order to serve all
75,000 inhabitants of the city.
This goal will probably be at-
tained in 1965 or 1966.
Drilling for hot water and
natural steam has also been
carried out in a number of
other places in Iceland. Be-
sides the system in Reykjavik
there are now in operation 4
other district heating systems
in small townships. These are
the townships of Hveragerdi,
Selfoss, Saudarkrokur and Ol-
afsfjordur.
A substantial green-house
industry is also based on natu-
ral heat. There is now in Ice-
land a great number of green-
houses with a total floor area
of more than one million
square feet. In these houses
mainly tomatoes, cucumbers
ICELANDIC ARTIST IN
DEBUT RECITAL
By S. Roy Maley
Rognvaldur Sigurjonsson,
45-year-old eminent Icelandic
pianist, presented a debut re-
citál in the Playhouse The-
atre Wednesday night. The
Icelandic National League, in
association w i t h Celebrity
Concerts, sponsored this in-
itial recital of the 1963-64 sea-
son.
Mr. Sigurjonsson proved to
be an able and serious pianist.
He went through his program
of Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and
two items by Danish and Ice-
landic composers, with techni-
cal finesse and honest musi-
cianship. In the process, he
displayed a flair for a virtuoso
approach to the keyboard,
which reached its highest lev-
el in Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz.
OPENING DISAPPOINTING
The opening Schubert Wan-
derer Fantasy was disappoint-
ing in many respects. It was
imbued with considerable vi-
tality, but its own lack of
struetural cohesion was not
minimized in Mr. Sigurjons-
son’s performance. His read-
ing of certain lyric passages
(particularly the I^ flat sec-
tion before the fugue) was
nicely considered and care-
fully phrased.
But a fast-moving passage
and flowers are grown. This
is of great importance, as
these vegetables cannot be
grown in the open air in Ice-
land.
A total of about 50 swim-
ming pools are now heated
with natural hot water. These
pools are of vital importance
to sporting activities in a
Country where swimming in
the open air is hardly possible
for a great part of the year.
THE FUEL IS SAVED
Interest is now concentra-
ted upon the utilization of
natural steam for the genera-
tion of electric power. Drill-
ing for natural steam has been
carried out in a few locations,
mainly in the thermal area
near to Hvergerdi, which is
a part of the Hengill thermal
area. Altogether 8 wells have
now been drilled in this area
and these yield a total of
about 300 tons per hour of
steam at a pressure of some
100 pounds per square inch
gauge. Plans are now being
worked out to erect a 15,000
kw power plant in this area.
The total amount of fuel
which is now being saved in
Iceland by the utilization of
natural heat amounts to about
65,000 tons per year. In 1970
it is expected that the figure
will be more than 160,000 tons
per year.—Iceland Review.
was inevitably reduced by
Mr. Sigurjonsson to its sim-
plest components — clear ar-
ticulation at the fastest pace
possible. The essential charm
of the music, its inner warmth
and distinction was thus hard-
ly emphasized.
Mr. Sigurjonsson seemed to
warm to his task with the en-
suing Sonata No. 3 by Niels
Bentzon, the Danish compos-
er. Tone color became more
varied, with lyric melodies in
the opening Allegro alternat-
ing with darker, richer tone
and dynamic accents. Ardor
and intensity were displayed
which made the work highly
communicative.
WORLD PREMIERE
A 10-minute Sonatina by
Leifur Thorarinsson was giv-
en its world premiere. The
opening Allegro offered a
wide variety of rhythmic con-
trasts, with sharp jagged stac-
co accerits. There was a cer-
tain lyric charm in the Adagio
section, but the work as a
whole conveyed little or abid-
ing interest.
In three of four Chopin
pieces Mr. Sigurjonsson was
both explicit and graceful, of-
fering color and unsentimen-
talized pathos — imaginative
and yet undistorted playing.
With simplicity of approach
Mr. Sigurjonsson interpreted
the Nocturne in E Minor, in
Whieh the fine choice of tem-
pi, the avoidance of a trace of
sentimeritality and the control
of tone all did their share in
a perfect realization of the
nature of this much abused
favorite.
The Ballade in G Minor re-
ceived a fierce, poetic reading,
in which lyric episodes were
invested with marked beauty
of singing tone and enhanced
by imaginative shadings and
nuances of sound. In the
Etude in A flat major, which
has been likened in eífect to
the melodious rippling of an
Aeolian harp vibrating in the
wind, Mr. Sigurjonsson’s tone
was too heavy, lacking requi-
site refinement and delicacy.
Superb technical qualities
were disclosed in Liszt’s Me-
phisto Waltz. Mr. Sigurjons-
son has the dead-sure digital
mechanism demanded for an
accurate negotiation of the
many technical intricacies in
which Liszt’s fantastic compo-
sition abounds. The frenzied
climaxes were prepared with
sufficient power and develop-
ment to m'ake them stirring
and inevitable.
—Winnipeg Tribune,
Sept. 19, 1963.
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