Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hartman thinks his success may help other handicapped people to enter the professions. Says he: "There is no way a sighted person can tell me what I can or cannot...
...Perahia laid aside his baton for a Steinway. He was 25, short on experience, and well aware that he needed a competition success to make a name for himself. Fighting nausea all the way, he won England's important Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. That brought him 50 performing dates and a contract with Columbia Records, which had not signed a new pianist since Andre Watts in the mid-1960s. His concert fees started to rise. (He now makes $5,000 per engagement...
Then a year ago, just as his career was beginning to soar, Perahia grounded himself. Success, he explains, "took me by surprise. Suddenly there was no time for anything else. I was labeled a specialist in Chopin and Schumann. Now that's not bad. But I also wanted to learn more Handel, Brahms and Haydn, whether or not I played them in public." He also decided he was "not really a piano buff," that he was more "interested in the ideas behind the music" than in one instrument...
...Radcliffe lightweight varsity met with limited success at the New England Intercollegiate Open Regatta Saturday at Worcester, placing fifth in a strong field of nine heavyweight teams...
...this monster is Jerry Jeff Walker, though God knows he probably didn't mean to. He's also changed a lot since then. He's no longer the grubby, lean desperado, looking like he'd like to hop the next train to Juarez. He's had a couple of successful albums, as many playing dates as he wants--even in places as distant and mysterious as Cambridge, Massachusetts--and everyone in the country music industry knows who he is. If he gets less attention than some of the latecomers, he still gets a lot, especially back home...