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Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia), January 19, 2003 Celebrating 20
years in musical spotlight Twenty years ago, Midori Goto, an 11-year-old violinist from Osaka, Japan, was one of the most promising musical prodigies of Asian descent. Recently enrolled in an American conservatory - in her case, in the studio of Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School - she hoped to follow elders such as conductor Seiji Ozawa, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Cho-Liang Lin into classical music's first string. Conductor Zubin Mehta tapped the young violinist as a surprise guest soloist in a New Year's Eve concert by the New York Philharmonic. Billed simply as Midori - the name she has stuck with professionally - she created a sensation by playing not just virtuosically but with a maturity far beyond her years.
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