Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei own the Long Museum in Shanghai and plan to make it one of the world’s great art institutions. “And nothing, Mr. Liu said, says world class quite like a Modigliani nude. … He added, ‘The message to the West is clear: We have bought their buildings, we have bought their companies, and now we are going to buy their art.'”
Seymour Lipkin, 88, Pianist, Conductor, Teacher
He entered Curtis at age 11; by age 17 he’d been hired by Jascha Heifetz as accompanist for a European tour. He studied with Koussevitzky at Tanglewood and apprenticed with Szell in the late 1940s, even as he was winning the Rachmaninoff Piano Competition in 1948 and going on to play concertos with major American orchestras. He spent decades as a sought-after at Curtis and Juilliard, and re-emerged as a soloist and chamber musicians in the 1980s and ’90s.