Word: pupil
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Burgin introduced the Fifth to Boston fifteen years ago and known its technical difficulties. The work contains long include laps as well as intricate physic patterns. But his pupil has game on to add Haydn's "Symphony No. 88 in G-Major" and Bach's "Magnificent," for tonight's concert...
...Rome University Ph.D., a pupil of famed Enrico Fermi, Physicist Pontecorvo fled Italy in the 1930s to escape Mussolini's Hitler-inspired antiSemitism. He spent some time in France and the U.S., finally settled in Canada, where he became a British subject and an important researcher at the Chalk River atomic project. Eventually he made his way to Harwell, where he rose to the post of chief scientific officer. Like many a colleague, he was an associate (in Canada) of Dr. Allan Nunn May, later convicted of passing atomic information to Russian agents; and an associate (in Britain...
Chopin was interested. Thalberg agreed. Liszt's old teacher, onetime Beethoven Pupil Carl Czerny, promised to come from Vienna. The others were Thalberg's teacher, Johann Peter Pixis, Pianist-Composer Henri Herz and Liszt himself...
This week Hexameron had one of its few hearings since Liszt's death in 1886. In London's His Majesty's Theater, brilliant Pianist Claudio Arrau (a onetime pupil of Liszt's pupil, Martin Krause) marched alone to the single piano in center stage. Then, playing with mixed high purpose and good humor, heaving and hammering, sighing and scintillating, he re-created for a moment some of the atmosphere of the Princess Belgiojoso's 1837 soiree...
...Come on now!' the dean said. 'What does "talking down" mean?' " After several guesses ("Does it mean arguing with the student?" "Telling a pupil his mistakes?"), the group got the answer, dutifully rated the phrase "quite important...