Word: yankilevitch
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...successful adult career, Pianist Janis had to overcome that most irksome of musical burdens-a reputation as a prodigy. His Russian-born parents brought him up in Pittsburgh, where his father, who owned a sporting-goods store, went by the name of Yanks, a contraction of the name Yankilevitch. When he was five, Byron started to play a toy xylophone like an old hand, soon afterward was playing piano on the radio. At 13, Byron Yanks, who shortly became Byron Janis, left home for good to study with a succession of teachers, finally becoming the only pupil of Vladimir Horowitz...
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