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...people were rooting for UMass," explained Arturo R. Galletti '97, who works at the Quincy House Grille...
...fluid technique already a source of wonder. As a teenage student of the formidable Egon Petri (a tough, intellectual pianist renowned for his sturdy Liszt and penetrating Beethoven performances), Wild was already a concert-hall veteran, a kind of young American version of Vladimir Horowitz. In 1942, the legendary Arturo Toscanini invited him to play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the NBC Symphony. Wild remains the only American soloist ever to play under the fiery Italian maestro...
Enter the mercurial maestro Carlos Kleiber, with an official discography that can almost be counted on both hands and canceled projects numbering at least twice as many. One can only imagine what might have come of a recording of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with Kleiber and the late Arturo Michelangeli, had it not been aborted at the first rehearsal. Granted, bootleg recordings of his rare concert appearances have kept more than one Italian label busy, but his extreme reluctance to record has inevitably elicited comparisons with Sergiu Celibidache, well-known for his remark that listening to recordings is much like...
...official for the first time since he was detained June 19. Wu, an American citizen who spent 19 years in aChinese labor campbefore emigrating to the U.S. in 1985, was not allowed to discuss his case in the heavily-monitored, half-hour meeting with U.S. Consul General Arturo Macias at a jail in the central city of Wuhan. The arrest has single-handedly sentU.S.-Chinese relationsinto a tailspin, infuriating lawmakers in Washington, setting off numerous State Department protests. But China, equally livid at Wu's repeated success inslipping through its bordersto expose human rights abuses, has barely budged. Officials there...
...isolated trading town of Ipil (pop. 52,000), 500 mi. south of Manila, noticed the newcomers. But soldiers are a common sight most places in the Philippines, particularly on the turbulent southern island of Mindanao, with its history of Muslim insurgency. "We thought they were real army," said Arturo Dimla, a local accounts clerk...