Word: pianistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midafternoon, Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy sounded the final chord of a recital at New York's 92nd Street Y.M. & Y.W.H.A. Holding up his watch and resolutely waving off all requests for encores, he declared, "You have been most gracious, but I must go to hear Vladimir Horowitz...
...After our family, now every family in Korea has a trio," reports Pianist Myung-Whun Chung, 21, smiling at his own youthful hyperbole. With no exaggeration, however, it can be said that the Chungs rank in the forefront of this century's gifted musical families. Each of the seven young Chungs, aged 19 to 33, is a trained musician. Six have won prizes, two were child prodigies, and the three who were once the family's own fireside trio are now solo artists...
...Because six of the Chungs have the first name Myung (which means "bright, shining like a star"), and even Kyung shares her middle name, Wha, with a sister, individual members are identified to outsiders by the instrument they play.* "Name choosing in Korea is not an easy matter," observes Pianist-Brother Myung-Whun. "A parent just doesn't go to a phone directory. You go to a specialist in making names, maybe a fortuneteller. I'm happy my parents went to the trouble to do it right...
...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 also to Conductor Carl Bamberger...
...Rivalry. For the next several years, the three Chungs played together in recital and separately. With the pianist-brother's recent success, however, the consanguineous harmonies of the trio will no longer be heard. In the future, each member will concentrate on independent solo careers...