Windjammer 1958 Cadet Sven Erik Libaek, Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops

This clip is of Cadet Sven Erik Libaek performing Edvard Hagerup Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A minor". The Concerto was played live in the docks of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Taken from the 1958 spectacular "Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich", the first movie presentation in CINEMIRACLE. Cinemiracle was a widescreen cinema format competing with Cinerama developed in the 1950s. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with only a single film produced and released in the format. Like Cinerama it used 3 cameras to capture a 2.59:1 image. Cinemiracle used two mirrors to give the left and right cameras the same optical center as the middle camera.
This movie was a documentary film of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again. "Windjammer" was produced by Louis De Rochemont and directed by his son Louis De Rochemont III. The world premiere of both Windjammer and the Cinemiracle system was at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on 8 April 1958. The film ran for 36 weeks. Windjammer was later transferred to the Cinerama format, and even to Cinemascope.
The crew consisted of the captain Yngvar Kjelstrup, 16 officers, 42 teenage cadets and the mascot dog Stump. They traveled 17, 500 miles.
This is truly one of my favorite movies since I was a child.
I grew up listening to the soundtrack of this movie and this had a great deal to do with my love for sea shanties, ships and the ocean.

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[jslasher1]

Sven is very busy these days. He is the conductor of the Sutherland Shire Symphony Orchestra. In 2011, he is expected to conduct some music from the Kinopanorama films, which are being restored in Russia, for my record label.

[LoreneFaith]

@jslasher1 I am so glad to hear that he is still performing. It is wonderful to see him in Windjammer when he was just starting out and wanted to get into music school.

[MrGziss]

@jslasher1 really??? im glad to hear he is performing. i wonder if he would ever play the states

[LoreneFaith]

@MrGziss I would love to see him play in the states as well. Now that the Windjammer movie has been restored and is playing at select theaters here in the states and will soon be out on dvd, the interest in Sven's career should be renewed. Maybe he will consider it.

[MrGziss]

@LoreneFaith ive got to get that dvd. thanks for the info friend.

[LoreneFaith]

@MrGziss Your welcome. Can't wait to get the restored movie too.

[richardkornbluth]

I am not Richard Kornbluth..

[richardkornbluth]

I saw the original Windjammer movie and wondered (Mr. Gziss) where and when the restored version was shown?

[LoreneFaith]

It was perfectly performed! Do they still have the training cruises for boys in Norway? I think it would be a wonderful experience for young boys and something they would never forget. Have you seen the musical, "Song of Norway"?  It also has Edvard Hagerup Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A minor" as well as "In The Hall of the Mountain King".

[bhammershaug]

What an outstanding performance!