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...music society that Casals founded in 1919, had made the long journey as a tribute to their countryman, who will celebrate his 90th birthday on December 29. In honor of the anniversary, this year's festival has one of the most stellar lineups in its history. Violinists Alexander Schneider and David Oistrakh returned after several years' absence; Pianists Rudolf Serkin, Wilhelm Kempff and Julius Katchen took leave from crowded schedules to perform. It was a sentimental journey tinged with apprehension. "When a musician is almost 90," explained Katchen, "one may legitimately worry about how he is going...
Smiling but Silent. On opening night, however, the wondering quickly turned to wonder. Seated at the foot of the altar in the Gothic Saint-Pierre Church, Schneider, Serkin and Casals played Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat Major with a passion that made no concession to age. Casals' luminous tone filled the vast church like waves of sunlight, touching the life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked...
Married. Romy Schneider, 27, Austria's sugar-and-ice gift to the movies (Boccaccio 70); and Harry Haubenstock, 44, German actor-director; he for the second time; in St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France...
Thursday night, sophomore Pete Adams smashed the Harvard mark in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing third, and outstroking from the start Yale's Rick Schneider, who had beaten him last Saturday in New Haven...
Adams qualified for the finals in the afternoon with an electrifying 5:03.2 time. He broke 1965 captain Dave Abramson's record by 2 seconds, and improved his own previous best by 2.7 seconds. Adams then proceeded to cut his time to 4:59.1 in the finals, defeating Schneider, but losing to Army's Jay Williams and Navy's Tim Beard...