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...guest soloist was Richard Kogan, winner of the 1974 HRO Concerto Competition. Kogan is a 19-year-old freshman who upon arrival last fall was immediately welcomed in musical circles as the most accomplished pianist at Harvard in many years. He has studied piano since age seven with Nadia Reisenberg in New York City and with Nadia Boulanger last summer in France, and his performance of the Liszt E Flat Piano Concerto was exceptional. This is as it should be--one of the greatest virtuoso pianists who ever lived, Liszt was fond of composing fiery technical showpieces. Kogan's fingers...
Currently, Gilbert is combating illness, old age and dwindling celebrity in a Mediterranean villa that is decorated like an elaborate set from The Roaring Twenties. Soon after King's arrival, life begins to imitate artifice. There are decadent aristocrats, a mysterious mistress (Nadia Cassini), a vulturous ex-wife (Lizabeth Scott), and a professor from Berkeley (Al Lettieri) found dead in a bathtub-just like Diabolique-who pops up later as an assassin. And of course there are also the requisite bizarre coincidences, intimations of labyrinthine intrigues, and murders. It is all highly improbable, like one of Gilbert...
Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. A year later he went to New York for piano studies with Edith Oppens, later won first prize for a solo organ piece in the Nice International Composition Competition, an M.A. in composition from Harvard and a doctorate from Boston University. Still, it was his gifts as a performer that earned him a Columbia Records contract in 1967 and dazzled the New York critics at a recital in 1971 (wrote the Times: "A keyboard technician of staggering facility, on the scale of Horowitz...
Belly Dancer Nadia Parsa was doing her peristaltic stuff at a press party in Teheran when in walked Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger with Iranian Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Siseo. Her kohl-rimmed eyes gleaming, Nadia undulated over to the tables where the VIPS were sitting. Then, while Iranian plainclothesmen efficiently stymied the photographers, she nestled herself on Kissinger's lap for three minutes or so. "A delightful girl," said Henry the K later, "very interested in foreign policy." What had they talked about? Answered Kissinger, with a straight face...
...into the villages. It is perhaps the sorest point with local residents, who say that the refugees will work for one rupee (130) a day when the local rate is between 21 and three rupees. Farm laborers, shop assistants and other workers recently demonstrated in the farming district of Nadia, asking local employers not to hire refugees. Residents also complain that the price of kerosene, vegetables and other foods has nearly doubled...