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Safety in age
United Press International
WASHINGTON —An insur
ance industry newsletter indi
cates there’s safety in age. An
article in The Family Economist
says the older you get, the less
likely you are to have an acci
dent.
It bases the statement on data
from the National Center for
Health Statistics, which found
only 18 out of 100 people aged
65 and over sustained an injury
in 1981, compared with 21 in
100 people ages 45-64 and 36 in
100 under the age of 45.
Pianist to perform
here on March 7
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by Tracey Taylor
Battalion Staff
Listening to Murray Perahia,
one would never suspect that the
award-winning pianist was from
the Bronx. But that’s where the
softspoken, British-sounding
man was born.
In almost storybook fashion,
Perahia overcame his Bronx
background and has become in
ternationally known as a piano
recitalist and soloist with
orchestra.
Perahia, who has performed
in Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln
Center, as well as a number of
other places across the world,
will perform in Rudder Audi
torium March 7.
“It just happened that
though my parents aren’t musi
cians, my father loved music
very much, and he would take
me to the opera,” Perahia said.
“I used to sing back some of the
arias that I would hear at the
opera. It was my father that de
cided that I should have a piano
teacher.”
It was then, at the age of four,
that Perahia began piano les
sons. Two years later, he began
studying with Jeannette Haien,
whom he continued to study
with until he left home for the
Mannes College of Music. There
he received a bachelor’s degree
in conducting in 1969.
But it wasn’t until the 1972
Leeds Competition that he be
came known as a great pianist
and began to tour profession
ally.
Perahia was the first Amer
ican to win the Leeds Interna
tional Pianoforte Competition.
That victory meant performing
more than 40 solo engagements,
which, the pianist said, was quite
a few more than the three he
had given before.
“At first it was a bit frighten
ing,” he confessed. “But you
know, it came easier, and every
year was a little bit easier. Soon 1
was able to handle performing
without any problems.”
Perahia says that performing
is his form of expression.
“When I’m performing, what
I am really looking towards is
communicating something, and
it’s not just the music,” he said.
“It’s a message to the people in
ordinary situations that I think is
depicted even more clearly in
the music.
“The emotions that I think
music are speaking about are the
emotions that I think exist in ev
eryday life,” he said.
Perahia has no qualms about
performing before an audience
filled with agricultural and en
gineering majors — no music
majors.
“I think the feeling is the most
important thing,” he said. “Of
course, exposure helps. Its like a
foreign language to some ex
tent.
“To know the language a little
bit more helps, perhaps,” he
said. “But some people know it
instinctively. I don’t play for
people that only know music.”
He compared understanding
a classical concert to under
standing a foreign language.
“I think even with a foreign
language one can — even if one
doesn’t know the language that
well — understand from ex
pressions certain things one
feels,” he said. “One can follow a
foreign conversation.”
Perahia says he loves playing
for college campuses, and he
doesn’t prepare for a college au
dience any differently than he
would for any other audience.
Even his music selections are the
His repertoire consists of
three or four different prog
rams which he performs in dif
ferent areas. His performance
in College Station will include
selections from Beethoven,
Schubert and Litz.
Perahia is being sponsored by
the Texas A&M University
Opera and Performing Arts
Society.
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The MSC Endowed Lecture Series will feature Gerald
Ford, Edward Heath and Helmut Schmidt speaking on the
future of the Western Alliance, April 4 at 8 p.m. in Rudder
Auditorium.
Tickets will go on sale March 7 at the Rudder Box Office
The prices range from $6, S8, and S10 for students and$8.
S10, and S12 for non-students.
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The Texas A&M Raquetball Club is s|x>nsoringthePre
Christmas Classic Raquetball Tournament this coming
weekend.
The deadline to enter is Tuesday at 5 p.m.
Divisions will include men’s and women’s A, B,C,Novice,
and A & B doubles.
Entry fees are S10 for the first event and $5 foreacheveni
after that. Make checks payable toTAMU RacijuetballClul).
For more information or to sign-up call Mark Bewleyat
779-3266, David Mays at 696-3637 or Jerry Herringtonai
846-8605.
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program at the Holiday Inn North on March 3at6:45pm
The program will feature a presentation from a mission
ary about her travels behind the Iron Curtain to Russiaand
Poland.
Reservations for the dinner for adults can bt madein
calling: Martha Murphy at 846-9740 after 4 p.m., Shem
Richardson at 779-2981. or Janette Gibson at 822-6428.
T he dinner is complimentary but reservations are nece
sary.
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Nautical lectures to begin tonight
The Nautical Archaeology Lecture Series beginstongihl
8:15 in 31 1 Bolton Hall.
Kevin Chrisman will give a lecture on “A Navvintkt
M ountains or the Bargain Basement Warships of Lt.Tb
mas MacDonough."
It’s the story of a battleship that sank during the Ward
1812 in Lake Champlain, Vermount.
Toastmasters announce schedule
Texas A&M’s chapter of Toastmasters Internationahi
meet March 8 Sc 22, April 5 Sc 19 and May 3 in Room If
MSC at 8:30 p.m.
The Aggie Toastmasters welcome anyone wanting to
sharpen their public speaking skills and receive fri
criticism.
IRAs to be topic of library speech
Individual Retirement Accounts will be the subjectofi
slide presentation by Greg Stiles at the Bryan PublicLibran
March 8 at 7:30 p.m. This program is open to the publicand
will be held in the auditorium on the second floor of ttv
library.
Stiles will speak and show slides about IRAs and try to help
correct misconceptions about this new personal retireniem
plan that has been provided for in the Economic Recoven
Tax of 1981.
Stiles is a 1973 graduate of fexas A&M and is an accouni
executive with Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.
Program to feature women speakers
The Texas A&M chapters of Women in Communication
Inc. and Phi Delta Gamma are sponsoring a luncheon prog'
ram March 8 at 12:15 p.m. in Room 230 MSC, in observance!
on National Women’s History Week.
The theme of the program is “Perspectives on America"
Women,” and will include addresses by Sara Alpern,Ph,0
assistant professor of history here, and Lynn Martin Hasla"
Ph.D., national president-elect of WICI and professor
journalism at Penn State University.
The deadline to register is Friday and the cost is $625*
person. Limited seating is available. For more informalio"
call 845-4667.
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Unemployed may find
lower transit fares
United Press International
MINNEAPOLIS — Unem
ployed Twin Cities residents
may soon be able to smile about
at least one thing.
Beginning April 1, unem
ployed workers in Minneapolis
and St. Paul may only have to
pay a 25 cent bus fare on Metro
politan Transit Company buses.
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Stumpf said Friday unemployed
residents would be issued identi
fication cards allowing them to
ride for 25 centsduringoW
hours.
“The purpose of this
ram is to make availatf'
opportunities more access^
unemployed persons hv fi
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Stumpf said in a memo®
commission. He said ih^
adequate capacity on
buses to handle unenf
riders.
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