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Worth the Agony. In the finals, performed last week with the Fort Worth symphony in the Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium, each contestant played the first movement of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto and one of two Beethoven concertos. A computer tallied the scores of the international panel of 17 judges, but the announcement of the results had to be delayed while contest officials frantically searched for Radu Lupu. He was found at last, wandering the hallways, gulping air in an effort to pacify his queasy stomach. But the agony had been worth enduring: minutes later he was named...
...guru in India, and daily rations of a syrupy mixture of ground-up acorns, figs and raw oatmeal. Last year she visited Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer in Gabon, played Mozart and Bach for him every night for five weeks; he spent his last days listening to her recording of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. In February, she will become an artist in residence at Texas Christian University...
...orchestra manager who arranged the session, was left nursing a new pent-up urge. Mused he: "I'll wager there are a lot of wealthy Americans who would like to conduct a symphony. It could become the new In Christmas present to give your friends -your own Beethoven's Fifth...
...selling Confi Guides," he said in a voice carefully tuned to imitate Beethoven bubbled through ambrosia...
...Guards even suggested that gold lettering be banned as crassly "capitalist." Henceforth, they ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy shop was ordered to drop the word happiness from its name, in keeping with the new austerity...