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...concert will include works by Handel, Rameau, Isaac, Ortiz, and Byrd. Some of the selections to be played are Praeludium, Si dormiero, Troisieme concert en trio, and Recercada sobre...
That there would be a rebellion against Argentina's military government was an open secret, and it was awaited with grim relish by the ardent young officers who fought in last September's revolution to bring down Dictator Juan Peron. They and their leader and hero, Admiral Isaac Rojas, itched to inflict a lesson in hot lead on the endlessly plotting Peronista party chiefs, labor leaders and pro-Perón officers cashiered by the revolutionary government. As luck would have it, when the plot popped this week, hard-boiled Vice President Rojas was in top command...
Rising Man. In 1936, two years after Fadeyev joined the presidium of the Union of Soviet Writers, Gorky died suddenly. Then people began asking questions. Where is Isaac (Red Cavalry) Babel? What has happened to Novelist Boris (Mother Earth) Pilniak? Why is the work of Poet Boris (Above the Barriers) Pasternak no longer published? About lesser writers there was no mystery: they had been arrested as "enemies of the people." While they disappeared, Fadeyev became No. 1 man in the Soviet Writers' Union. Disdaining elegant clothes, he habitually wore the party uniform, but he had his own chauffeur-driven...
...Born. To Isaac Stern, 35, top-ranking, Russian-born U.S. violinist, now on tour of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, May 14), and Vera Lindenblit Stern, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Shira...
...flat. A few months later, his parents sold their home and possessions in Bolivia to give him U.S. training (in San Francisco). After one of his rare appearances four years ago, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "In the 1920s it was Yehudi Menuhin, in the 1930s it was Isaac Stern; and [now it is] Jaime Laredo." After that, scholarships, first with Concertmaster Josef Gingold of the Cleveland Orchestra, and then with Master Teacher Ivan Galamian at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, with whom he still studies...