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Yet mere wealth was never enough for him.  Wolfensohn also found time
to nurture and then to display his musical gifts.  At age 40 he was
encouraged by his ailing friend Jacqueline du Pré to take up
the cello. Ten years after his first lesson, he was sufficiently
accomplished to perform in concert at Carnegie Hall.  It did not hurt
that he was then chairman of the Carnegie Hall board.
		-- From "The Real Mr. Wolfenson", by Niall Ferguson,
		   The Washington Post, 2004-10-03, page BW05
		   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63755-2004Sep30.html

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