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...Masonite, cardboard wedges, and sandpaper stashed in their pianos,' apply them to the strings to conjure up weird effects resembling gongs, castanets, drums, xylophone and harpsichord. Ferrante and Teicher have been playing in unison ever since they were sixyear-old prodigies studying together at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music After twelve years and repeated prodding from teachers, they decided to become professional duo-pianists. In 1948 they bought an old delivery truck loaded on their Steinways and hit the road. They played in gymnasiums, churches, cafeterias, ballparks, even a boxing ring. In the first dozen years they...
...crutches and plays sitting down. He was stricken with the disease when he was four and lived for one year in bed with his violin. As soon as he was able to get around, he entered music school. At 13, he won a scholarship to Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, where he has been a student ever since. His parents, Zionist pioneers who came to Israel in the 1930s, moved to New York City with him. His father now folds shirts in a Manhattan laundry for $50 a week...
...been a bit of a problem for Perlman. His all-important debut in Carnegie Hall went unnoticed because it occurred during the 1962-63 newspaper strike. Then last April he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition, but in all the excitement the $15,000 Guarnerius violin he had borrowed from Juilliard was stolen. The instrument was recovered later in a pawnshop, but news of the event completely overshadowed his stunning victory. Barring other such misfortunes, the U.S. and the world will be hearing a lot more about Itzhak Perlman in the very near future...
...Miss Teenage Memphis disapproved, saying: "I feel I cannot live for God and participate in the vulgarity of some of the modern dances." When the feathers settled, the winner was a gleeful soprano, Carolyn Mignini, 17. a Baltimore oriole who will use her $10,000 prize to study at Juilliard...
Together with the Juilliard String Quartet (TIME, Aug. 23), the new trio gives the U.S. unsurpassed mastery of chamber music. Critics struggling to define its excellence find no one around to compare it with. They hark back instead to the years before World War I when French Pianist Alfred Cortot, French Violinist Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals were the presiding maestri. Even the great trio of the '40s-Heifetz, Feuermann and Rubinstein-is not in the running, for Stern, Rose and Istomin make up a trio unique in attitude as much as accomplishment. They play as if for themselves...