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...shape and pace a lyric. Her unique style of talking a song was developed to compensate for her failing soprano voice. Now, she says, "it's just a noise." Enough, however, to hold some 500 guests spellbound at her birthday party in Manhattan. Mabel's star pupil could not make the party, but he did not forget the singer who "taught me everything I know." Frank Sinatra sent a bouquet and a note: "I love you, Mabel. Have a marvelous...
...respecting art historian would have deemed worthy of note about even the best of Benton's work, like The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley (1934), would have been that the lank boy in the foreground, playing a mouth organ, was a portrait of Benton's ex-pupil Jackson Pollock...
...project to the audience," Williams reminds him as he misses a turn. He fails in a second try and bangs his head in disgust. "I'm sorry, I will improve," Nureyev apologizes. Pale with concentration, he repeats the step with needle-sharp precision. Williams nods and his pupil jigs back and forth in fifth position like a gleeful schoolboy...
...sort of life," he says. He did not decide to become a professional musician until he was 14 -when he asked his parents' permission to go to New York. There ahead of him were two of his older sisters: 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...
...Massachusetts law, which was sponsored by Rep. Lois G. Pines (D-Newton) states only that each school committee must allow a parent, guardian or student over 18, upon request, to inspect "academic, scholastic or any other records concerning such pupil." The law provides no procedure for enforcement...