Word: wha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best known of the Korean family Chung, Violinist Kyung-Wha, set the standard in 1967, when she shared top honors with Pinchas Zuckerman in the important Leventritt International Competition in New York City. She was 19. In 1971 Cellist Myung-Wha, then 25, took first place in the Geneva International Competition. Last July, Myung-Whun was second-place winner at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, an achievement he quickly followed up with an impressive debut recital in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall two weeks...
...Myungs. Because six of the Chungs have the first name Myung (which means "bright, shining like a star"), and even Kyung shares her middle name, Wha, with a sister, individual members are identified to outsiders by the instrument they play.* "Name choosing in Korea is not an easy matter," observes Pianist-Brother Myung-Whun. "A parent just doesn't go to a phone directory. You go to a specialist in making names, maybe a fortuneteller. I'm happy my parents went to the trouble to do it right...
...businessman whose enterprises have included operating the Korean restaurant at the Seattle World's Fair and running a mushroom plantation. Their mother loved music, and each child began piano lessons by five. The children agree that they immediately took to music, if not to the piano. Myung-Wha used to fall asleep at the keyboard until one day her mother turned up with a cello and a cello teacher. "I had never heard a cello," she recalls. A year and a half later, at eleven, she became one of the first people in Korea to perform publicly a cello...
This feeling among WHA All-Stars that they can top the Russians without really extending themselves is not unusual among Westerners. Bob Goodenow, last year's Harvard hockey captain, told me that when he went with the U.S. National Team to compete in a European tournament, the players only practiced together twice before they departed...
...issue is that Americans and Canadians tend to rationalize losses to what they consider inferior peoples. Either the players are not in shape or the country's best players did not show up--or, as in Bobby Hull's case, were not allowed to play because of NHL-WHA politics. We collectively have to face up to the fact that if a foreign country emphasizes a sport, either by subsidizing the construction of facilities or by exalting its participants in the press and public rallies, we cannot expect to remain superior forever...