Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience four works for violin and orchestra-and nothing else, a rare program for the U.S. (though not for European audiences). He opened with the clear, forthright Corelli suite La Folia; then came the Brahms Violin Concerto, followed by Portrait No. 1, an early work of his late Hungarian compatriot and friend Bela Bartok, and finally the Beethoven Concerto...
Although a compatriot who studied at the Medical School last year and another who was at summer school have left Cambridge and none of the several hundred other Korean students in the United States are at Harvard, Lee is not lonely. The men at the Business School testify that he is a "great guy." He likes Harvard and states, "I could not find a better place to study fiscal policy...
Segovia is beginning a tour that will take him to Belgium, The Netherlands, England, Switzerland, Italy and the U.S. before he returns to his present home in Montevideo. Like his compatriot, Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, he has not returned to Spain since the civil war of the '30s. Still practicing from five to six hours a day, self-taught Andrés Segovia often permits himself a restrained self-compliment: "The teacher is satisfied with his pupil...