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...founding president of the European Community Youth Orchestra, an ensemble of 130 young musicians from the nine Europe an Community na tions, Heath periodically transcends his fallen state and conducts a little Mozart, most recently at a Youth Orchestra concert in France's Loire Valley. The audience there cheered the maestro on, but some picky French critics thought that European harmony would be better served if Heath stuck to his other avocation, yachting. Sniffed the reviewer for France-Soir...
Early this year, Thompson was a winner in the National Black Music Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington. As a result he and violinist Yehudi Menuhin are scheduled to perform the Mozart double concerto with the Chicago Symphony this coming season...
...instrument that way? Up, up! Higher!"? Or the virtuoso who appeared onstage with the Orchestre National de France and the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, the rosette of the Légion d'Honneur pinned in his lapel, and tossed off the feat of playing 15 major works, from Mozart to Samuel Barber, during a sequence of eight concerts...
...great painters are precocious, but Picasso was. In a technical way, he was as much a prodigy as Mozart, and his precocity seems to have fixed his peculiar sense of vocation. He was born in Málaga in 1881, the son of a painter named José Ruiz Blasco (a fine-boned inglés face, nothing like Pablo's simian mask; that came from his mother), and by 13 he was so good at drawing that his father is said to have handed over his own brushes and paints to the boy and given up painting. If the story is true...
Pianist-author Charles Rosen will be the 1980-81 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. Rosen, who won the 1972 National Book Award for his "The Classical Form: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven," will give six Norton lectures and two recitals of Beethoven piano pieces next year...