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...favorite will be Turishcheva's celebrated teammate, Firefly Olga Korbut, 21, who flipped, tumbled, smiled and cried both herself and her sport into the spotlight four years ago as she flitted off with two gold medals of her own. And the romanticist's favorite will be Nadia Comaneci, a 14-year-old, 86-lb. Rumanian sprite who risks fancier flights than Tinker Bell could dream...
...Nadia Comaneci, picked from her kindergarten class in the town of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (pop. 60,000) by her coaches because she was "alive," has advanced the sport of gymnastics as much as Olga popularized it. Frighteningly daring, she has developed a series of ultra-acrobatic moves that leave crowds gasping. The Salto Comaneci, to cite one, is a twisting, back-somersaulting dismount from the uneven parallel bars that one U.S. gymnast has a forthright word for: "Madness." Her derring-do, coupled with unusual stability in such difficult and dangerous moves as three back handsprings...
...hard to miss elsewhere around the U.S., and not just because she carries close to 300 Ibs. on a 5-ft. 3-in. frame. Next week she will become the second woman to mount the podium at the New York Philharmonic (the famed French pianist and teacher Nadia Boulanger was the first, in 1939). The program, co-sponsored by Ms magazine, will be entirely devoted to the works of women composers (see box page 59). In January she will become the first woman ever to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera, leading Verdi's La Traviata, starring...
...Many movie composers-Schifrin, Joe Raposo, Billy Goldenberg and Jerry Goldsmith, for example-have classical music backgrounds. Goldsmith majored in music at U.S.C.; Goldenberg studied piano with his father. Schifrin's father was concertmaster of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra. Raposo studied in Paris with the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger. "You have five more years of counterpoint," warned Mme. Boulanger when he announced his impending departure. She worried about her pupil's attraction to popular music: "What will happen to you is the same thing that happened to Gershwin." Replied Raposo: "I certainly hope...
...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 also to Conductor Carl Bamberger...