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POTPISANI
JUGOSLOVENSKE
I TEHNIKE U SSSR--u
By Bill Shaw
A few years ago, Josef Gingold, inter-nationally
acclaimed professor of music
at Indiana University and coach to the
world's great violinists, conducted a class
in Vancouver, B.C., for a select group of
Canada's most gifted violin students.
A trembling little boy and his shy sister
were brought before Gingold. The chil-dren's
teacher implored the master violin-ist
to take but a moment to hear their
music.
"They know everything," the frustrated
teacher told the great Gingold. "I can't
teach them any more. Please, just listen."
Gingold reluctantly agreed to grant
the boy a brief audience. With a sister,
Katja, accompanying him on the piano,
Corey Cerovsek, who was 9 at the time,
adjusted a tiny-1- 4 size violin beneath his
little chin, eased the horsehair bow across
the strings and played the most stirring
and technically perfect version of "Al-legro
Brilliant" Gingold had ever heard.
"It was frightening, I'm telling you,"
the Russian-bor- n Gingold recalled. "This
child scared me. This level of brilliance
I've never seen in anybody."
Gingold, a charter member of the NBC
symphony under Arturo Toscanini and
later concertmaster with the Cleveland
Orchestra before coming to Indiana Uni-versity
in 1960, invited Corey and Katja
to come here to study with him.
The beleaguered parents, Helmut and
Sophia Cerovsek, packed the U-Ha- ul, the
kids, the cats and moved 2,300 miles.
Last fall, Corey became the youngest,
fully enrolled student in the history of
Indiana University. He weighs 66 pounds,
wears braces, climbs trees, speaks three
languages and plays an $85,000, 78 size
Storioni violin made in 1789, two years
before Mozart died. He also knows more
about menopause than his mother.
"He heard the word once and went to
the library and read every book on meno-pause,"
said Sophia, 38. "He explained it
to me."
Corey can discuss the life of Albert
Einstein or Michael Jackson with equal
ease and enthusiasm and is as content
playing the violin for neighborhood kids
or the Queen of England, something he
did last year in Toronto.
"She's not as grouchy as she looks,"
he said. "She asked me the usual questions,
like you are." Apparently Queen Elizabeth
was intrigued.
Corey has soloed with 12 major or-chestras
in the U.S. and Canada, is a
regular on Canadian TV, will play the
role of the child Vivaldi in a CBC produc-tion
this spring, graduated from the Uni-versity
of Toronto's Royal Conservatory
of Music at 12 with a gold medal for
superior performance, is writing a novel,
creating a new language on his computer
and practices free throws each day, hoping
to master the game of basketball.
And he's a great kid, not a brooding
little weirdo like you might expect.
"I'm a kid," he says, slightly annoyed
at the mere hint that he's different. "I
hate the word prodigy. I really hate the
word genius. It makes us sound like a
different species."
Many think this kid is the greatest
intellect to attend Indiana University in
its 123-ye- ar history. He's 13. He carries
a double major, music and math, and
maintains a perfect 4.0 average through
80 hours of the most demanding courses
offered by the university.
And then there's Katja, 15, who also
maintains a perfect 4.0 average through
45 hours of class work. She made her
orchestral debut at 10 with the Calgary
Philharmonic, has soloed with eight major
orchestras and graduated from the Royal
Conservatory of Music at 13 with the
highest piano marks in the country.
She is the youngest student ever ac-cepted
lor study by distinguished profes-sor
Gyorgy Sebok, a world-clas- s pianist.
"She is the most extraordinary piano tal
ent in the school," he said. "She is so
gifted, such a natural talent, I can't de-scribe
it."
Were he simply a musical prodigy,
Corey's talents would be stunning, but
his additional intellectual skills place him
in another dimension.
Charles Webb, dean of the 1,600-stude- nt
School of Music, has taught 28 years,
seen thousands of gifted kids come and
go. Corey, he said, is beyond belief. Forget
music. The kid knows everything. It's as
if every bit of the world's accumulated
knowledge is stored in this little boy's
brain.
"Corey is probably the most gifted stu-dent
to ever attend Indiana University,"
Webb said. "I've never seen anything like
it. His musical gifts alone qualify him
as a genius. His perceptions, talents and
abilities are unfathomable. In six months
he passed every music theory course this
university offers. No one has ever done
'that. And we have many of the brightest
students in the world here."
! The math department was skeptical.
It brought in the heavy guns to stump
Corey. A faculty committee devised tests
in linear algebra, differential equations
and other brainbusters. Corey aced the
tests with ease and asked for more. They
had no more.
"He answers questions before my voice
quits vibrating. He hears things no one
else hears," said Bob Reno, who attempted
to teach Corey in a 19th-centur- y music
literature course for honor students. "I
couldn't. He knew everything."
Gingold, 75, sits in his office beside a
piano, surrounded by mountains of sheet
music and autographed pictures of the
world's great violinists. The bottom but-tons
of his maroon sweater strain against
his huge stomach. He sputters, searching
for words to explain his discovery.
"I've never seen five great talents rolled
into one as with this boy. He's a musician,
a mathematician, he paints, he writes
songs, he composes music. This is'
frightening.
"Corey is so intelligent it scares me.
How else could he know things no one
told him? He seems to know everything.
He knows things he's never been told or
read."
Helmut, the father, just shrugs. He's
an engineer, he says, and has trouble
with situations that can't be explained
with a slide rule. "I see things in black
and white. I don't know what to make
of these children, to be blunt. Sometimes
it's like living in a fantasyland. I just
go to work and love them."
Both parents were born and raised in
Austria, graduated from college and re-port
nothing in their genetic backgrounds
to explain their children's great gifts.
Katja was born in Austria before the
family immigrated to Canada in 1970.
Helmut chose to avoid Austria's manda-tory
military duty. Corey was born in
Vancouver, B.C., in 1972 and spent the
first three weeks of his life in a coma
of undetermined origin, which the doctors
couldn't explain.
When -- Katja was 2, Sophia played "Old
McDonald" on the family piano and sang
the words in German. Katja climbed on
the piano and repeated the tune perfectly.
At 4 she taught herself to read. Corey
also taught himself to read at 4. At 5
he was reading library medical books
and studying kidney disease, searching
for a cure. He's still searching but hasn't
given up.
On his 5th birthday, Sophia bought him
a miniature violin. He inspected it,
plucked the strings and started playing
Mozart. He didn't even know who Mozart
was.
At 6, Corey received a silver medal
from the University of Toronto's presti
gious Royal Conservatory of Music. At
9 he defeated 3,000 musicians to win the
overall Canadian Music Competitions in
piano, violin and ensemble, an unprec-edented
feat.
"People ask me what did I feed them.
Did I play music to them in the womb?"
Sophia says. "I did nothing. I didn't even
read to them. It beefs me when people
ask such questions."
She's refused to have the kids' IQs
tested or have them studied or probed
in any way. They're kids, not guinea pigs,
she says.
Interviewing Corey is a tricky task.
Ask him a question and he shoots back
with 50 more. He can't control himself;
he wants to know everything, a child's
natural curiosity gone berserk. Do you
like being a reporter, asking people per
sonal questions? What kind of car do you
drive? Volvos have great engine compres-sion.
You have a computer? What kind?
How many bytes?
Students at Indiana University rank
basketball almost above beer and sex in
matters of great importance. Corey heard
about this and naturally had to check it
out.
He settled himself with 17,000 other
screaming fans and within five minutes
had extracted every bit of basketball
knowledge from his companions, ran it
through his brain and understood the game
perfectly. By half-tim- e he was analyzing
the action, who had how many fouls, how
many points, the best inside shooters,
best outside shooters. Helmut was baffled
by the game, but Corey explained it to
him.
When the game went into overtime,
Corey was computing various mathemat-ical
possibilities required for a Hoosier
victory. When Indiana won the game, he
was yelling and screaming like a true
college student.
"This is the most exciting thing I've
seen in my life, more exciting than playing
for the queen!" he shouted.
Helmut later installed a basket on the
garage, and Corey is working to perfect
his game.
KOME ZVONE ZVONA?
Naucnici smtraju da su prva zvona
odjeknula u Kini pre cetiri hiljade go-din- a. Kasnije su se javljala i u drugim
zemljama da bi se vremenom raspro-stranil- a
po citavom svetu.
Prvim zvonima u Kini i Indiji, naci-njeni- m
od gline ili metala, u dana-snje- m
obliku, ili kao lopta sa malim
otvorom na dnu pripisivana je cudo-tvorn- a
moc. Njihov zvuk, verovalo se,
prizivao je seni pokojnika, delovao na
atmosferske prilike, pomagao use-vim- a
da bolje rastu. Veca zvona kra-sil- a
su hramove, manja odecu dece i
odraslih, koja je trebalo da ih stite
od nedaca.
Na stoci, teglecoj marvi i u karava-nim- a,
zvuk zvona omogucavao je da
stada i putnici ostanu na okupu po
mraku, magli i pescanim burama, a
verovalo se i da ima moc da ih stiti.
Zvona su sluzila u naseljima i da
oglase pozar, napad na grad, ili samo
da oznace podne. Kasnije od 11. veka
nase ere svi hriscanski hramovi na
svetu snabdeveni su zvonima, ali i tad
su pored verske ona imala i svetovnu
ulogu.
POCINJE AKCIJASKO LJETO
BEOGRAD (Tanjug) — Pocela je
prva smjena 45. saveznih omladin-ski- h radnih akcija koje ce ove godine
okupiti oko 40 tisuca mladih. Pred-vid- a
se da ce ukupna vrijednost po-slo- va koje ce brigadisti obaviti izno-si- ti
oko dvije milijarde dinara. Omla-dincim- a
iz domovine — koji ce, inace,
najvise raditi na poSumljavanju go-le- ti
— pridruzit ce se pocetkom jula
25 brigada s oko tisucu djece nasih
radnika na privremenom radu u ino-zemstv- u.
PRVI UGOVORI
Na izlozbi "Dani nauke i tehnike
Jugoslavije u SSSR-u"- , koja se odrza- -
vala u Moskvi, a na kojoj su bila ored-stavlje- na jugoslovenska naucna i teh-nick- a
dostignuca, prvih dana otvara-nj- a
potpisani su prvi ugovori. Brodo-gradilis- te
"3. maj" iz Rijeke zaklju-cil- o
je sa sovjetskom firmom "Sudo-import- "
ugovor o isporuci broda-diza-lic- e
u vrednosti od 71 milion dolara.
Vranjevacka firma "Zavarivac"
predstavila je na izlozbi opremu za
toplo dimljenje mesa i mesnih proi-zvod- a.
Neposredno pred otvavaranje
izlozbe "Zavarivac" je sa "Sojuzanes-import- "
zakljucio poslove u vrednosti
od 108 miliona dolara. Fabrika iz Vra-nj- a
treba u ovoj godini da isporuci
sovjetskom partneru objekte za pre-rad- u
mesa, cija je vrednost proce-njen- a
na 54 miliona dolara. Ostali deo
ove invesicije realizovace druge or-ganiza- cije
u zemlji.
"Energoinvest" je zakljucio takode
znacajne poslove za isporuku akumu-lator- a.
Jugoslovenska izlozba u Moskvi za-tvore- na je 16. juna. Poslednjeg dana
izlozbe bilo je potpisivanja i drugih
ugOvora.
D. TESIC
"Politika"
NAUKA I ZIVOT
SUNCEVA ENERGIJA
U nedrima Sunca svake sekunde sa-go- ri
630 miliona tona vodonika i pre-tvo- ri
se u helijum. Od toga najmanje
607 miliona tona ucestvuje u stvara-nj- u
fotona, a ostatak daje neutrone i
jos poneke elementarne cestice. Po-sl- e
"sagorevanja" tih 607 miliona
tona vodonika, u prostranstvo oko
Sunca poleti svake sekunde oko 4,2
miliona tona fotona — elementarnih
cestica koje nase oko registruje kao
svetlost a telo kao toplinu.
Od te ogromne kolicine fotona do
planete Zemlje stize polumilijarditi
deo — svega 1,85 kg. Oni se krecu br-zino-m
svetlosti i donose nam dvade-se- t
hiljada puta vise energije no sto
covek dobija iz uglja, nafte, atoma, ve-tr- a
i toplote zemnih nedara. Ali od
sve te energije dosame povrsine Zem-lje
stize samo polovina tako da svaki
kvadratni metar povrsine nase plan-ete
dobija tacno 160 vata.
Najveci deo energije fotona koja za-gre- va povrsinu Zemlje, gotovo 99,9 6d-st- o, upija zemljiste, trosi se na ispara-vanj- e
vode, na vetrove, oluje i sve sto
nazivamo vremenom. I samo 0,1 odsto
fotonske energije Sunca, njegove sve-tlosti,
uzmu biljke u vidu fotosinteze
organskih materija iz ugljen-dioksid- a
i vode. Samo taj deo energije hrani
sve zivo na Zemlji. Na taj nacin dobija
se 100 milijardi tona suve organske
materije. Covek od toga trosi za hranu
oko 5 odsto.
NENSI REAGAN NA
VENCANJU BRITANSKOG
PRINCA
Supruga predsednika SAD Nensi
Reagan bice jedna od retkih inostra-ni- h
visokih licnosti, koja ce po pozivu
prisustvovati vencanju britanskog
prica Andrew i gospodice Sare Fer-guso- n
krajem jula ove godine.
Prema saopstenju ljudi zaduzenih
za protokol, sefovi drzava nece prisu-stvovati
svadbenoj ceremoniji. Retki
ce biti, verovatno, i drugi gosti iz
kruga visokih licnosti kojima ce se
upucivati lifcni poziv, ali gospoda
Reagan ce, svakako, biti jedna od
njih. Objavljeno je da je ona dobila
rukom ispisano obavestenje o tome
licno od princa Andrew-a- .
Predstavnik za stampu Nensi Rea-gan
je vec izjavio da ce poziv biti pri-hvace- n.