Word: ivan
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...principal inspiration was my father, who founded our Bombay Symphony and was its concertmaster. He taught violin and played quartets in our house. When he left us for four years during the '40s to study with the great violin teacher Ivan Galamian in New York City, there was less music at home. I played piano, and I listened to recorded music incessantly, every free moment I had. By the time he came back, I knew at least by ear most of the major works of the symphonic repertoire...
This concert has been arranged through the courtesy of the Most Rev- erend Evdokim, Archbishop of Aleutia and North America, and of Mr. Charles R. Crane. The conductor will be Ivan T. Gorokhoff of Moscow. It will be open to the public, but a limited number of seats will be reserved for members of the University and their friends...
...music business, where stars are formulated and marketed like so many sugary soft drinks, Ivan Shapovalov has come up with an original flavor. Take two Russian teenage girls, dress them in school uniforms, add some lesbian antics and don't forget a mildly catchy tune. The result: Tatu, Russia's most successful pop export ever, with more than 1.5 million albums sold worldwide, Top 5 chart positions across Europe and climbing in the U.S. True, much of this looks familiar, including the uniforms. But next to Tatu, Britney seems just cute and Christina seems almost clean...
...DIED. IVAN ILLICH, 76, social critic and onetime Catholic priest whose iconoclastic views made him a hero to baby boomers in the 1970s; in Bremen, Germany. In essays and books like 1971's Deschooling Society, he criticized the Catholic Church, said public education shouldn't be mandatory and accused hospitals of making people sicker. He left the priesthood after the Vatican called him "politically immoral...
...President Kuchma's Information Department, insisted the memos were nothing more than simple press releases. But some 500 journalists signed a manifesto in which they threatened to strike in protest against the temniki and in support of free-expression guarantees. "Ukraine is the most informationally open country," counters Ivan Chizh, chairman of the State Committee on Information Policies, TV and Radio. "It is so open that quite often those who are using this openness are working against the state." Despite the openness Chizh describes, dozens of Ukrainian and foreign journalists have been physically assaulted over the past three years...