Word: gregor
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Using the humble pea, an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Johann Mendel proved that living things pass their characteristics to later generations with mathematical regularity-almost as if the formula for each trait were conveyed in a separate little package. Last week, more than a century later, a team of young Harvard researchers reported that they had finally zeroed in on that Mendelian package. For the first time, science had isolated a single gene...
MEADOW BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL, Rochester, Mich., celebrates its fifth season with eight weeks of varied symphonic programs and name soloists, including two rare appearances by Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky (Aug. 17-18). Orchestra-in-residence is the Detroit Symphony under Sixten Ehrling. The American Ballet Theater dances for a week starting July...
...Gregor Piatigorsky has been known to audiences for nearly half a century as one of the world's great cellists. But in the music world, he is almost as noted for his borscht-accented conversation-sharp and sagacious-as for his musicianship. Last week, as he observed his 65th birthday on his rambling estate in Los Angeles, the far-from-retiring Piatigorsky gave one of his inimitable offstage performances in a four-hour talk with TIME'S Los Angeles bureau chief, Marshall Berges. As these excerpts show, he is as much of a verbal virtuoso as ever...
...next few decades will tell. In that time, the best of the new generation will vastly broaden their repertories and deepen their musical insights. As for Mehta, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky believes that "his ability as conductor is unlimited. His capacity to learn is absolutely astonishing...
...administrator of a vast bureaucracy, leading legislator and top diplomat, educator and economist, symbol and sage, ribbon cutter and fence mender. Because of his role in shaping legislation affecting the cities, in recent years he has also become "the Chief Executive of Metropolis," as Williams Political Scientist James Mac-Gregor Burns puts...