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For weeks before the running, the odds were on the Russians to sweep the field in Belgium's first postwar revival of its violin international-the Concours Eugène Ysaÿe, this year renamed for Queen Mother Elisabeth. There was a notable precedent : brilliant Soviet Violinist David...
Writes Burnand, a lung specialist, in Paris' Concours Médical: "We live under the rule of pharmacy . . . The equation
For six years the world's fair of the cinema world has been the International Film Festival at Venice. In the past this annual, late-summer gathering to pick the world's best films has chosen such universally acclaimed cinemas as Man of Aran, Anna Karenina, Mayerling, La...
Last year, conforming to this wish, a group of Belgian musicians, led by Ysaÿe's lifelong friend and former pupil, Queen Mother Elisabeth of Belgium, founded the Concours International Eugene Ysaÿe. To Brussels, with fiddle cases under their arms, flocked contestants from 26 nations, eager...
Last month, in the presence of King Leopold III, a solemn ceremony at the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique inaugurated the second Concours Ysaÿe. This time not violinists but pianists were to vie for honors.*From 22 nations came nearly 100 eager candidates, aged 15 to 30, chosen...