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...serve liquor or food to guests at weddings or funerals; anyone who wears mourning dress during funeral periods, uses funeral flags, or displays more than three wreaths at family ceremonies stands to get fined up to $1,250. Too many social customs, explained Health and Social Affairs Minister Lee Kyung Ho, are "wasteful in terms of money and time. They must be corrected...
...much more than just his playing. He advises him when to appear publicly, what to wear, how to carry himself. He corrected Young Uck Kim's habit of hitching up his trousers while onstage. He was tough on prankish Arnold Steinhardt, to give him discipline; with shy Kyung-Wha Chung, a co-winner of the 1967 Leventritt Award, he was kindly and patient, to give her confidence. Galamian constantly worries that sex will distract his best students from their careers. At Meadowmount, the summer school for string players he founded in upstate New York, his most famous exhortation...
...Quebec Symphony. The Boston Symphony and the Japan Philharmonic are in the second year of an exchange agreement whereby two string players from each orchestra swap places for a season. And the promising youngsters keep coming: co-winner of this year's prestigious Leventritt Award was Korean Violinist Kyung-Wha Chung, 19, and second spot in the 1966 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow went to Japanese Violinist Masuko Ushioda...
...week at Carnegie Hall, the Leventritt jury outdid itself. It ranked the four violin finalists so closely that it took the unprecedented step of asking each to play again. Then, for the first time in the competition's 27-year history, it named two winners: Korea's Kyung-Wha Chung, 19, and Israel's Pinchas Zuckerman, 18, both scholarship students at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and products of eminent Juilliard Teacher Ivan Galamian...
...Kyung (dubbed Cookie by Galamian) is one of seven musical children of an importer who now lives in Seattle. She started on piano at four, but switched to violin two years later because "I kept going to sleep at the keyboard" She left Seoul for Juilliard at twelve, knowing no English. As composed and lovely as a porcelain doll, she "never felt more comfortable" than in the competition, was calm enough to nap during the two-hour wait for the jury's decision...