Word: kyung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...birders" who ever get a chance to see these magnificent creatures close up is Zoologist Won Pyong Oh, director of the Institute of Ornithology at South Korea's Kyung Hee University. Five times each winter, Won, 52, makes a well-advertised venture into the DMZ under the watchful eyes of soldiers on both sides of the line in order to observe and photograph the monogamous cranes in their elaborate mating rituals, which include wing flapping, bows and leaps into the air. "The Americans get very nervous," explains Won, who makes his perch right on the Military Demarcation Line...
...mother turned up with a cello and a cello teacher. "I had never heard a cello," she recalls. A year and a half later, at eleven, she became one of the first people in Korea to perform publicly a cello solo. An uncle brought five-year-old Kyung-Wha a quarter-size violin. In a week she could play anything on it by ear and carried it everywhere. Only Myung-Whun remained at the piano...
...know why we are so determined," says Kyung-Wha. "But our family dislikes anything in between." The habit of toil was instilled early. At home, the children would gather hi one large room in a communal practice for the contests they were encouraged to enter. Myung-Whun, the next to youngest, played his first concerto at seven with the Seoul Philharmonic. Still, he considers himself a "late starter...
...sports and got into a normal sort of life," he says. He did not decide to become a professional musician until he was 14 -when he asked his parents' permission to go to New York. There ahead of him were two of his older sisters: Kyung-Wha had studied at Juilliard and was a pupil of Ivan Galamian, and Myung-Wha was a pupil of first Leonard Rose and then Gregor Piatigorsky. Myung-Whun was attracted by the more personal, less competitive atmosphere of the smaller Marines College of Music and apprenticed himself to Pianist Nadia Reisenberg and recently...
...sibling rivalry. Onstage, the Chungs resemble one another in their cool professionalism and a musical intelligence and maturity far beyond their years. They lead the circumscribed life of performing artists. "Whenever I get on a plane, I always hope it will be to explore a new city," says Kyung-Wha. "Instead, I must be content to explore a new audience." Their personalities are similar only in a courteous sense of selfimportance. Myung-Whun is intense, Kyung-Wha fiery, and Myung-Wha pacific. When family frictions do arise, the Chungs may find their strongest bond in their individual ability to make...