Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father was a regimental physician, and Sibelius was born at Tavastehus, a small town in the interior of Finland. He was just an ordinary little boy when he began to study the piano at the age of nine, but he started to compose almost immediately. At 15 he took up the violin, with the local military bandmaster as instructor. In his mature years he confessed to an early ambition to become a great violinist. The respectable Sibelius family, however, considered a career as a musician too precarious. They suggested law, and for a time the young composer dutifully pegged away...
Authentic musical Wunderkinder were something new to U. S. audiences when, one evening in 1887, a sturdy n-year-old boy, 4 ft. tall and dressed in a sailor suit, marched out on the stage of Manhattan's new Metropolitan Opera House. The solemn youngster seated himself on a high chair at a piano whose pedals had been built up to be within reach of his short legs. In the wings offstage stood the boy's mother, an opera singer of Warsaw, and his father, who had taught him to play the piano so well that...
...this reason, and because Josef Hofmann was the only private pupil Rubinstein ever took-after the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children had his first U. S. tour cut short, and Financier Alfred Corning Clark came to the rescue with $50,000 to subsidize the boy in seclusion until he was 18-Pianist Hofmann and the orchestra performed Rubinstein's shopworn but showy Concerto in D Minor. Still one of the world's great pianists, despite his small hands,* and a brilliant technician who excels at interpreting Chopin, Hofmann next played a group of Chopin solo pieces...
...visits to Rhodesian and South African jamborees, Chief Boy Scout Robert Stephenson Smyth, Baron Baden-Powell, 80, declared: "It is either going to kill or cure me. I don't mind which it is, so long as I can carry through my work...
...Fastest reader ever tested, an 8-year-old high-school boy who evidently had an unusually large macula (a yellow spot in the retina, most sensitive point of vision), in one test read 2,202 words a minute with excellent comprehension...