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Margot Fonteyn danced the pas de deux from Swan Lake while Isaac Stern played the violin. Van Cliburn knocked off a Hungarian rhapsody. Shirley Verrett brought down the house with Donizetti. Sol Hurok was celebrating his 60th year as an entrepreneur with a salute from his stars. The audience that packed the Metropolitan Opera House at up to $100 a ticket in tribute to the 85-year-old Russian immigrant was stellar too. In the crowd: Vanderbilts, Astors, Roosevelts, Whitneys, Cristina Ford, Jackie and Aristotle Onassis, and the Prince and Princess Alfonso de Borbon of Spain. A visitor to Hurok...
Lilit is a straight-A student at Los Angeles' Lycée Français. She is also a regular visitor to the University of Southern California, where she takes a course in music theory and continues violin instruction with Alice Schoenfeld, her teacher since Lilit was 7½. The proud possessor of a 1704 Stradivarius lent her by a Beverly Hills collector of fine musical instruments, Lilit practices one hour at 6:30 a.m., one hour after school, one hour just before bedtime -and professes not to mind it: "Practicing just makes me want to do it more...
...played for him at age 6½. Conductor Milton Katims told her stories and played games after her appearance with the Seattle Symphony. At age twelve, Dylana is a thoroughly natural child whom everybody seems to adore. Last week at the New York Philharmonic Promenades, where she appeared as violin soloist under Maestro André Kostelanetz, one of her concerns seemed to be to limit her smile so as to conceal the braces on her teeth. Despite a few nerve-induced intonation miscues, she played the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with sweep, dash and daring...
...knew from listening to records of the concerto what was right and wrong," says her mother Ana, a former schoolteacher who takes care of Dylana, Brother Kevan, 14, Sister Vicky, 13, and Brother Ivan, 10, who is coming along nicely as a sculptor. The Jensens bought several books on violin technique, went to work with Dylana, and by the following week's lesson she was ricocheting like crazy...
...said that although a Harvard and Radcliffe applicant may be equally talented, "a female will be first violin in her high school orchestra, while a male may play in a symphony." "The weight that Harvard admissions gives to athletes would also be unfair to women," she added...