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...Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell last week, Chilean-born Pianist Claudio Arrau set some kind of record: he played both of Johannes Brahms's monumental piano concertos, Nos. 1 & 2, the longest two in the standard piano repertoire, all on one program. The audience liked it fine, and so did the critics...
...Wonder. Arrau had taught himself to read music at four, played his first recital at five without even taking a lesson. At seven, the Chilean Government paid his way to Europe for ten years' study. He was no sensation on his first U.S. visit in 1923. He stayed away until 1941, when a brilliant Carnegie Hall recital turned the trick. Since then he has been so busy that his wife and two young children rarely...
...months before grey, handsome Juan Antonio Rios finally died of cancer, the political vultures had swooped and darted. Last week they plunged. Chilean law requires presidential elections within 60 days after the office becomes vacant, and all but one of the prospective candidates had already stumped the country. The exception was 77-year-old ex-President Arturo Alessandri Palma, likely rightist candidate. Because he was too old for that sort of competition, he smartly let it be known that he was also too noble...
...Bernardo O'Higgins, son of an Irish father and a Chilean mother, and first president of Chile, who died...
Bright-painted vivas flecked the white walls of Santiago. Banners shouted bienvenida (welcome). From Santiago's Los Cerrillos airport to the Plaza Constitution, palm fronds and the hammer-&-sickle festooned the streets. All day and far into the torchlit night, 8,000 cheering Chilean Communists gave the first Soviet diplomat in Chilean history a pointedly ideological welcome...