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...account, he was often a dull pupil : "The lessons had to be driven in, on the spot, and almost literally by getting knocked on the head...
...Bucharest a famed master and a famed pupil played together for the first time in six years. In those years the pupil had won greater fame, and the master had lived in obscurity. The pupil was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The master had been a prodigy too: Georges Enesco, son of a Rumanian peasant, became a highly talented composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and musical scholar. Enesco had almost dropped from sight after his country went Fascist...
...reunite master and pupil, the Rumanian Government flew Menuhin, his wife and two children, from Zurich in a special plane. In a Bucharest movie house Enesco, now 64 and bent with arthritis, played piano to Yehudi's fiddle, and conducted the Rumanian Philharmonic Orchestra. In eight days they played seven concerts, one of them for Rumania's King Michael and his aunt, Princess Elisabeth. Guards with Tommy guns stood at the doors, to protect Government officials in the audience. During the concert, janitors swept the floors, poking with their brooms beneath the feet of annoyed listeners. A huge...
Thompson recommends: 1) "focal walls"-catching pupil attention by painting the facing wall a darker or lighter value than the side walls; 2) "glare minimization"-equalizing lights and shadows by painting window walls in brighter colors than the opposite walls; 3) "correct room orientation"-cool colors (blue and green) for rooms with west or south exposures; warm colors (red, orange, yellow) for those with east or north exposures...
...years as an obscure laborer in the Louisiana rice fields (TIME, Nov. 5), dropped in to see him last week. Bunk now plays in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Casino dance hall, with the kind of small New Orleans jazz band that Louis abandoned years ago. Bunk still reveres his pupil. Says he: "Don't expect me to play like my boy Louis, 'cause when Louis does up I does down...