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Midway through the six-hour session, the class adjourns to the dining room for sandwiches and coffee and Piatigorsky's reminiscences from nearly 50 years of concertizing. When a pupil complains about preperformance jitters, he confides that he himself has found no easy remedy: "I try looking in the mirror and saying 'You're the greatest cellist in the world.' " But alas, he adds sadly, "I don't believe me." Or he will tell of the evening he dined with Amateur Fiddler Albert Einstein...
Clarion Call. For the first time since his death, Church's place in U.S. painting is being reassessed with a large exhibition at the Albany Institute of History and Art.* Historically, Church ranks as virtually the last of the Hudson River School. A pupil of Thomas Cole, he took as a personal command Emerson's clarion call to the American artist to reveal the hidden spirituality of the universe, to create art worthy of a new continent. Most of his generation traveled to the Old World; Church forayed into the New. Instead of Europe, he visited Ecuador, hacked...
...variety of films available, although they would prefer more short films, each on a narrowly specific topic, and more biographical films. Teachers at Scott Montgomery would like to see more films that do not portray "white middle-class suburban America." It would now cost other schools about $16 per pupil per year to duplicate the project's facilities, but this cost will decline as demand increases. Despite the advantages, no one expects films to become more than just another of a teacher's many tools. The teacher, says E.B.F.'s Howell, "must always remain in control...
Sydney P. Marland Jr., 51, came to Pittsburgh's 77,000-pupil school system from such relatively vest-pocket operations as Darien, Conn, and Winnetka, Ill. Since September 1963, Marland has demonstrated that this did not di minish his ability to think big. The chief elements of his Pittsburgh plan: - TEAM TEACHING. As in other schools, a group of half a dozen or more teachers work together with a large group of children. "But team teaching is more a spirit than a thing," says Marland. He finds that since teachers can be more creative, teaching in slum areas becomes...
...applied at white schools, crosses were burned on their families' lawns and bullets fired into their homes. In Sumter County, Ga., a Negro mother was fired from her job within 24 hours after she had chosen a white school for her child. In Calhoun County, Miss., a Negro pupil registered for the seventh grade in a white school but failed to attend classes after her family was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan; the school board then told her she could not attend classes at all, since she had rejected "the school of her choice...