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...country roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs to burn in the kitchen stove instead of coal. He was an enthusiastic singer who competed in school contests; at Sunday church services the Mondales led the congregation in hymns. In 1938, when Fritz was ten, his father...
...astounding achievement of his music is movingly set against the pecuniary and social tragedies of his brief life. The story is further spiced with a succession of sometimes amusing, and always appropriate, anecdotes. (We are told, for example, about the occasion in a Swedish maternity clinic when his Piano Concerto K 467 was successfully used to ease childbirth...
...proclaiming their good feeling for him. India's granite lady, Indira Gandhi, actually seemed coquettish with Reagan. Queen Elizabeth did not have to throw a party-after-the-party for the Reagans during her West Coast visit. But she did, and even joined in songs around the piano, a royal rarity...
Phil and Rita's life shimmered like an advertisement. Indeed, to an outsider it seemed less a life than a perfect lifestyle: tree-lined California suburban street, tasteful $150.000 home (with piano), two sunny youngsters. Phil, 37, was a $30,000-a-year microchip sales engineer in Silicon Valley; Rita. 34, was a $20,000-a-year bookkeeper. Like their smart, attractive Northern California friends. Phil and Rita played tennis and ate interesting foods and knew about wine and, starting four years ago, sniffed coke...
Chung won the opportunity to perform the solo recital by taking the Highest Placing Artist of the Americas Award in the 1981 Bach International Piano Competition...