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...took the unprecedented step of asking each to play again. Then, for the first time in the competition's 27-year history, it named two winners: Korea's Kyung-Wha Chung, 19, and Israel's Pinchas Zuckerman, 18, both scholarship students at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and products of eminent Juilliard Teacher Ivan Galamian...
Kyung (dubbed Cookie by Galamian) is one of seven musical children of an importer who now lives in Seattle. She started on piano at four, but switched to violin two years later because "I kept going to sleep at the keyboard" She left Seoul for Juilliard at twelve, knowing no English. As composed and lovely as a porcelain doll, she "never felt more comfortable" than in the competition, was calm enough to nap during the two-hour wait for the jury's decision...
HAYDN: THREE QUARTETS, OPUS 54 (Epic). The Juilliard String Quartet once again displays its unsurpassed exactness of intonation and joint attack as it makes each quartet a finely chiseled gem-all without sacrificing warmth or passion, as in the C Major Adagio, with its deep-voiced Hungarian lament under the dancing arabesques of the violin...
This weekend Harvard and the Juilliard School of Music collaborated on a Loeb production of two "experimental" works of musical theatre, one from the 1620's and one from the 1960's. The first of these, Claudio Monteverdi's II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, is a kind of stage cantata. A narrator describes and comments on a fight between Tancredi and Clorinda, while they act out the battle, occasionally singing a phrase or two themselves. In this production, Robert Jones as the narrator, Alan Titus as Tancredi, and Evelyn Mandac as Clorinda all sang excellently, although some of Miss...
...Your Soup." Sagan herself has remained a la mode ever since, at 18, she mailed the manuscript of Tristesse to the late publisher Rene Juilliard. He stayed up all night reading, next day offered Sagan 50,000 francs if she would ask her father, a manufacturer of abrasives, for permission to publish it. "I am famous," Francoise announced at dinner that night. "Eat your soup before it gets cold," replied Papa...