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Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand were there, as were Eugene Carson Blake, former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. So were ten Democratic Senators and twelve black members of the House of Representatives, as well as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and (would you believe?) Joe Namath...
...then I saw that there were sharpshooters in the trees. Just as the orchestra began to play the Peronist march, the first shots were fired. Then they began coming from every which way. We on the journalists' platform threw ourselves to the ground. At first the orchestra conductor did not stop the music but got onto a chair and conducted all the more vigorously. Then the sound system went off. I remember seeing a bass-fiddle player lying on the floor, still putting bow to strings. There was a priest standing up, holding a Cross in one hand...
...keeps pestering "A No.1" (Lee Marvin) for some tutoring on the fine points of jumping trains and dodging conductors.A No. 1 tosses a few nuggets of road wisdom to his would-be protégé, but saves his energies and talents for his epic battle with the sadistic conductor Shack (Ernest Borgnine), toughest train man on the tracks...
...mediocre at 20." Given parental idiosyncrasies, the denial of childish games, the pressures of concert life, it is a won der any of them survive at all. Yet they do. Beethoven, Mozart and Mendelssohn made it and, since Rubinstein's emergence, so have Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor Lorin Maazel and Pianist Lorin Hollander, among others. Three of the latest entrants in the prodigy sweepstakes...
DYLANA JENSON: Yehudi Menuhin got down on his knees so he could be on her level when she played for him at age 6½. Conductor Milton Katims told her stories and played games after her appearance with the Seattle Symphony. At age twelve, Dylana is a thoroughly natural child whom everybody seems to adore. Last week at the New York Philharmonic Promenades, where she appeared as violin soloist under Maestro André Kostelanetz, one of her concerns seemed to be to limit her smile so as to conceal the braces on her teeth. Despite a few nerve-induced intonation...