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Western reporters like Burns and Hans-Joachim Bargmann of West Germany's D.P.A. news service are spared that kind of restraint and come through with interesting and revealing pieces from time to time. Burns recently risked official displeasure by reporting fresh evidence of recurring xenophobia: "Foreign residents find themselves sternly questioned by police for photographing Peking street scenes...
...eight decades, Wunderkinder have come and gone since Arthur Ru binstein was recognized as a prodigy by the eminent violinist Joseph Joachim. All of them, no doubt, have had experience as tender as Rubinstein...
...Professor Joachim picked me up from the floor, kissed me, and gave me a big piece of chocolate." For the great majority, however, the Japanese proverb has applied all too well: "The child prodigy at ten has talent at 15 and is 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...
Today, at age six, Leandro is a pianistic sensation who has been applauded wildly from London to Lugano. Just as Rubinstein was taken to Joachim, so young Aconcha was taken to the venerable Rubinstein in 1970 at his vacation villa in Marbella, Spain. "Instead of hanging about the piano like a little monkey," chuckled Rubinstein shortly thereafter, "he ran about the house and hurtled through the garden." When the boy finally sat down to play, "not one note was missing. I was four when I started to play and he was three, but even at the age of eight...
...Tourist Holdings; Nino Rovelli, Societa Italiana Resine; Curt R. Strand, Hilton International; Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., TWA; Hendrik A.C. Van Riemsdijk, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; Eberhard Von Kuenheim, Bayerische Motoren Werke (B.M.W.); Gerrit A. Wagner, Royal Dutch Petroleum; Pierre Waltz, Societe Suisse pour 1'Industrie Horlogere; Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler-Benz...