Certain specific performers became associated with the Festival, including violinist Aaron Rosand, pianists Jorge Bolet, Malcolm Frager, Gunnar Johansen and Raymond Lewenthal, cellists James Kreger and Jascha Silberstein, and conductors Victor Borge, Igor Buketoff, Jorge Mester and Izler Solomon – many of whom went on to record several of these works for commercial record labels.
He organized conferences which included such notables as Edward Teller, inventor of the American hydrogen bomb, and Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.
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As a composer he was also prolific with a catalogue of nearly 750 compositions in various forms: 31 piano sonatas, three piano concertos, three violin sonatas, a large 1937 work for orchestra (Variations, Disguises, and Fugue, on a Merry Theme of Cyrus McCormick), along with works for string quartet, oboe, and vocal ensembles.
Gunnar Myrdal | David Johansen | Jon Lech Johansen | Bård Tufte Johansen | Gunnar Hansen | Johan Gunnar Andersson | Gunnar Asplund | Gunnar Johansen | Gunnar Heinsohn | Gunnar Harding | Gunnar | Tore Johansen | Nils-Olav Johansen | Johansen | Jan Gunnar Hoff | Jan Arvid Johansen | Hjalmar Johansen | Gunnar Svensson | Gunnar Stålsett | Gunnar Sætren | Gunnar Malmquist | Gunnar Knudsen | Gunnar Jarring | Gunnar Halle | Gunnar Berg (composer) | Gunnar Berg | Viggo Johansen | Morten Gunnar Larsen | Kai Johansen | John Christen Johansen |