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When Gyorgy Sandor talks about the piano, it's as if an oracle were speaking. "It's not in the fingers. It's in the muscles of the body," he whispers cryptically about the secret of his technique. Sandor, who draws on a repertoire of works that numbers more than a thousand, is known around the world for his wizardry at the keyboard. Last year he played to packed houses at Cairo's Manasterly Palace, Seoul's Arts Center and London's Barbican Hall, to name a few. This week he's on his way to Rome's Teatro Ghione...
Across town from Sandor's Manhattan apartment, Robert Mann, 83, fiddles away in preparation for his upcoming tour. Mann's 51 years as first violinist in the renowned Juilliard Quartet now seem like a musical warm-up for the multifaceted career he has pursued since he retired from the group in 1997. At an upcoming concert that typifies his new approach to performing, Mann will conduct, play chamber music, perform on violin and viola and debut his own composition--all on the same program. "When you love your art, it's easy to keep going," he says. "There's always...
...begin harnessing those billions in the service of a cleaner planet, Sandor plans by early next year to launch a trading forum called the Chicago Climate Exchange, in what would be the first U.S. marketplace for greenhouse-gas emissions. More than two dozen major U.S. companies, including Ford, DuPont and American Electric Power, plus five Mexican and Canadian firms, along with Chicago and Mexico City, have been involved in setting up the exchange and have expressed interest in participating, pending further negotiations. As a group, Sandor says, they represent emissions nearly equal to those of Germany...
...eager to get experience coping with caps. "We really have endeavored to construct a program that will be highly credible and successful--and by success we mean it will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions," says Dale Heydlauff, senior vice president for environmental affairs for American Electric Power and one of Sandor's collaborators. Participation will be voluntary, but firms will be monitored for compliance...
Even so, the Chicago Climate Exchange will be ahead of U.S. law, and will be a test of corporations' readiness to act on their own. "This is the Wright brothers' version of an aircraft," Sandor says. "It's not the 747 that exists after 50 years, but it's a start. And that's going to be important to your children and my grandchildren." --By Katherine Ellison...