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...father Charles Lindbergh became an American hero when he was 25 years old. After he made the first nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927, in a tiny silver monoplane called Spirit of St. Louis, his very existence took on the quality of myth. Overwhelming, overnight celebrity followed him home from Paris to the U.S. and around the nation on his tour promoting aviation. Fame followed him on his goodwill tour to Mexico late in 1927, where he met the U.S. ambassador's daughter Anne Morrow, who married him in 1929. They traveled all over the world...
This year, Lin was a soloist with Harvard's Mozart Society Orchestra and the professional Boston Symphony Orchestra. During reunion week he is performing a solo during Harvard reunion night with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall...
...becomes not only something you enjoy but also a responsibility," says Lin, who has been playing since he was four years old. While at Harvard he has become somewhat of a musical celebrity on campus, seeking out opportunities for solo and chamber work, as he has his whole life...
...Harvard solo career began when he won the Mozart Society Orchestra's (MSO) first-year concerto competition. Soon his name appeared on posters advertising campus performances--his skill well-known, Lin could draw an audience...
...orchestra was looking for a younger soloist for a concert celebrating conductor Seiji Ozawa's 25th anniversary with the orchestra and had obtained a tape of Lin playing a solo with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra without Lin's knowledge. Artistic administrator Anthony Fogg gave him a call...