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When he learned that he had won the 40,000-zloty (about $1,700) first prize. Pianist Pollini called his home in Milan, shouted "I'm fine, I won," and burst into tears. The son of a prosperous Milan architect, Maurizio started piano lessons when he was five, at eight was hiding Bach partitas behind his school textbooks. He displayed a prodigious musical memory: at a piano examination at which students had three hours to memorize a two-page composition, Maurizio memorized ten pages in 15 minutes. Although he has won various piano prizes, Maurizio was not widely known...
Freedom &Riches. This week the academy named 13 new fellows for next year, ranging from Latinist Richard Brilliant, 30, a Yale doctoral candidate, to Latvian-born Astra Zarina Haner, 30, an apprentice of Detroit's famed Architect Minoru Yamasaki. Like the 27 current fellows, all are likely to be profoundly invigorated by the academy's unique formula: freedom amid Rome's riches, from the ancient Forum to the soaring Olympic stadium...
...greatness says, 'We have achieved our ideals. You can achieve yours.' " Stirred by the Sistine Chapel, Lebrun is hard at work on a vast vinylite-and-cement mural, depicting scenes from Genesis. Equally inspired by Rome is Harvard-trained Henry Millon, 33, art historian and architect. "I have spent hours staring at St. Peter's," says he, "and I've now decided that Delia Porta was wrong in his elevation of the curve of the dome. It may have all kinds of effect on my work." Rome has also transformed Princeton-bred Musician John Eaton...
...Real World. Founded in 1894 by Charles McKim, a turn-of-the-century architect who designed Chicago World's Fair buildings in a borrowed Roman style, the academy began as a place for young U.S. architects to drink at the source of McKim's inspiration. Endowed partly by J. P. Morgan the elder and chartered by Congress, it soon took in artists and classicists. Now, aided by 50 U.S. colleges and universities, it stands as one of the finest overseas representatives of U.S. culture. Among its alumni: Playwright Thornton Wilder, Classicist Robert F. Goheen (see above), Novelists Ralph...
...academy's recently appointed 13th director, New York Architect Richard Kimball, is anxious to renovate the elegant but ailing villa ("With us, it's boiling water or none," says one fellow's wife). But the men on Janiculum hill have little complaint beyond the plumbing. Stimulated by endless debates on life, art and talent in the atmosphere of ancient Rome, they have grown in every way. "Before I came here," says San Francisco Architect Aldo Casanova, 31, "I only studied and taught. Now, in what is supposed to be seclusion, I feel as though I have been...