Word: andre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strolling from his art-filled office through a bulletproof door to a balcony overlooking an immense trading room, Cairo-born André Levy pauses to deny a bit of gossip circulating among his fellow money dealers in Lausanne, Switzerland. He insists that it is just not true that his firm - somewhat whimsically named Tradition S. A. - exchanges half a billion dollars for stronger currencies each day. The actual figure, he states with aplomb, is "more than a billion dollars...
Surprisingly, many of the money traders agree, though they are making profits out of the irrationality, which they blame on their clients. Asks André Scaillet, chief money trader in Europe for First National Bank of Chicago: "Can you tell me if it's logical to have a 7½% [downward] movement of the dollar against the Swiss franc in a single day? It's out of this world!" Money traders worry quite as much as any finance minister about what the drop in the world's central trading currency is doing to the global structure...
Brahms: Four Serious Songs, Two Songs for Alto and Viola, Eight Lieder (Mezzo Janet Baker, Pianist André Previn; Angel). Set to biblical passages about death, suffering and love, Brahms' late songs have a stately quality that Baker's dark, resonant voice conveys perfectly. Her low notes thrill with their sad, serene beauty...
Soviet critics praised Rosen's "splendid technique and beautiful full sound." Principal cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony under André Previn, Rosen was elated by his second-time-around victory. "Before, I was examining the style of others," he said. "This time, I was much more intense, concentrated." He began playing the cello at six when his father, an amateur violist, and his mother, a pianist, started their son practicing in hopes of gaming an addition to their family chamber group. At 13, he made his debut with a symphony orchestra in Redlands, Calif., and began studying with Cellist...
...André Vinckier...