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section Action Line 2 Ann Landers 2 Business 4 New York stocks 5 Tuesday, June 2, 1981 A winning pianist, playing at 3fe Jlnptrer people calm I. I I .1 4- imU.JL....mWml.M I II. Man in the news ipiiiwiiiiiviTO'iiwf; iniKiririiiii I "'SisSiJ' I mm i. 1 ss6 irtiiiwiwii By Daniel Webster Inquirer Mufic Critic An Olympian calm was the air that Andre-Michel Schub projected in winning the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Sunday night in Fort Worth, Texas. Yet those close to the pianist say that calm shields a doubting, demanding musician.

Schub, 28, had been the odds-on favorite to win the competition. As the field narrowed, he alone had the concert experience, the breadth of musical interests and the toughness that comes from having won other big competitions. Even the excitement of the final round could not shake the pianist's aplomb. But he was not so confident earlier "in the competition. He called New York and spoke to his first piano teacher, Jascha Zayde, who has been his guide since Schub was 12.

"Michel called me from Fort Worth and said, 'I'm not going to make the quarter-finals. The others are all better than I "Then he called a few days ago and said the same thing about the semifinals. You see, he has this feeling that he just doesn't play well enough," Zayde said. "Of course that can help him. He really knows that he can play, but he is never satisfied with what he has done.

It makes him work harder next time." Schub's appearance in the competition came as a surprise to many. After all, he has a career in motion, and is already under contract to bia Artists Management. He has been soloist with many of the major orchestras Chicago, Boston, New York has toured extensively with the Music from Marlboro players, has been prominent in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concerts, and importantly, has already won the Naumburg Foundation Competition and in 1977 was named Avery Fisher Prize winner. He won the Naumburg competition right after his graduation from Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1973. His teacher for three years at Curtis, Rudolf Serkin, said yesterday: "I don't believe in competitions, but this perhaps brings him the recognition which he would have had in a couple of years anyway.

He is a brilliant talent, a brilliant mind and a truly great musician. I was delighted to hear of his achievement." Schub himself recognizes that competitions are artificial and sometimes anti-musical. "Still," he said, "there has to be a way for people to be recognized and get concert opportunities. The advantage to the competition is that you are heard." This represents a change from his days in Philadelphia. He had never competed in the Philadelphia Orchestra's annual competition.

His mother, I-ouise Rypto Schub, said, "He was not a pushy kid. I think he felt he wasn't good enough." Serkin has watched Schub's progress since chance brought them together in the early 70s. Schub had had no intention of attending Curtis or working with Serkin, and in fact had entered Princeton University because of his belief that he could make a career in science. "He could have been a physicist," Zayde said. But Schub had accompanied a friend to auditions Serkin was holding.

When the audition was over, Serkin, a courtly old-world figure, had asked what interest on Schub's part had brought him to listen. When Schub admitted that he, too, was a musician. Serkin asked him to play. The result was that Schub was invited to Curtis, while his friend was not. That invitation was a critical one, Schub's mother said.

''Serkin convinced him that his life was music, not science." Schub's work at Curtis led to his being taken into Serkin's Marlboro, music festival, where chamber music is the focus of the summer's work. Although Schub has played Philadelphia Inquirer GtRALD S. WILLIAMS Henry DeBernardo is out to defeat what he sees as a conspiracy to drive blacks from inner cities Raising the roof The firebrand general of a squatters' army Profile out of people if you use it correctly." It is not the stuff that inspires confidence among city officials or more establishment-minded activists. "I don't have a lot of personal respect for Henry. I think he's looking for a political base," says a present city housing official.

DeBernardo has the look of an underfed dog all ribs and' bones and skin. He has high, gaunt cheekbones, closely cropped hair, a slight beard and mustache. A vegetarian, he eats little food, drinks almost no alcohol. He has an intensity about him, that is infectious, leaving little patience for social amenities or polite conversation. His past before state Sen.

Milton Street (R Phila then a street organizer, discovered him (See DeBERNARDO on 3-C) By J. Darlce Poguu Inquirer Staff Writer The beliefs of Henry DeBernardo are detailed enough to fill 500 pages of a rnanuscript, rabid enough to lead him to jail four times, sharp enough to cause him to shun others not as single minded. The work of Henry DeBernardo is to break laws and to instruct others on how to break them. Somewhere between the work and the beliefs is the life of Henry DeBernardo. a life short on leisure time and devoid of personal ties.

It does not appear to be much of a life. But then, DeBernardo described by others as a "punk," a "self-sacrificing" leader, a "claim-jumper," a "hood," a "driven person," "courageous and sincere" doesn't want-much more. ing demonstrators into a council meeting. Last month, DeBernardo resigned his job as a paralegal at Community Legal Services because he said CLS was pressuring him "to quiet down." Last week, he and 80 of his followers occupied the federal courthouse lobby for two hours, demanding and getting a meeting with the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). DeBernardo and Burris will talk with Secretary Samuel Pierce tomorrow in a meeting arranged by Sen.

Arlen Specter. DeBernardo says he believes in using violence if the government refuses to allow his people to squat in abandoned houses here. He follows a doctrine of civil disobedience that he has spread through half a dozen other cities, saying, "You can scare the hell Andre-Michel Schub extensively in that repertory, Serkin said, "He is more soloist than chamber musician. His own personality is very strong in his playing." Although Serkin was his teacher at a stage when Schub needed polishing, Zayde had been the man to anchor his talent and direct his interests when he was young. Schub, born in France, was brought to New York at eight months by his parents, both of whom are teachers.

His father, an American, Sollis G. Schub, is retired from the facully at Brooklyn College, and his mother, a Parisian, continues to teach French at the college. French is the language at home. Schub started piano at 4. His mother said, "He already had temperament.

I taught him for a year, but he obviously needed more than I could give him. Of course we have a theory about his musical ity. You see, my mother's maiden name was Bach." The boy was taken to teacher Nadia Boulanger in France at 11 and studied with pianist Jeanne-Marie Darre and composer Darius Milhaud. His parents took him to Zayde at 12. "I recognized him as a wonderfully gifted boy," Zayde said, "but I also could see that he would require a lot of training.

I told his parents it would take six months of work to develop his technical equipment. "We spent those, six months playing scales, arpeggios, octaves, tenths. I was stretching his hands, giving him the strength in his shoulders and back, giving him the means to produce the sounds he wanted. He came in twice a week. He does not have a hand as big as Van Cliburn's, He can play elevenths or maybe twelfths, but his hand is extraordinarily strong.

"Piano playing is a terrifically physical activity. It is no accident that he is a good athlete. He plays baseball and he's a swimmer. I took him to see. his first major league baseball game, and we've been going to games ever since." The pianist's success in Fort Worth may curtail his chances to see the Yankees play.

The Cliburn Competition heaps a $12,000 prize on him, and gives him concerts and recitals throughout the Western Hemisphere and in Europe for two years. Afterward, former winners have found, the impetus of that launch is comparable to the thrust of the rockets that propel space shots from Cape Canaveral. "This is the first step in what Tye been dreaming about," Schub said after the judges' votes were in. Associated Press newmanin her life nson. the Newsmakers Margaret Trudeau "My life is work.

There's not a lot ofjime left over when you get through saving people." Henry DeBernardo is 31, a black activist who heads the Inner City Organizing Network (ICON), dedicated to placing only black squatters' in abandoned homes -r homes where they have no legal right to be. His objective is to defeat what he sees as a conspiracy to drive out blacks from inner cities. It is a controversial business. In early April, he was called "punk" and "hood" by City Councilman Francis Raffcrty after he and fellow ICON worker Charles Burris brought about 100 scream Wendy Yoshimura of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. The Sydney Daily Mirror said yesterday that Lady Diana's hairdresser "would be aghast at what has been done to her" on the 50-cent piece.

"Poor Di," the Melbourne Age said. "She looks as if she just stepped out of the shower." The coin shows the profiles of Charles and Diana looking sternly to the left, with a profile of Queen Elizabeth on the reverse. "While Prince Charles is neat and proper, although grim- miJIMlll I I IUMI.I.IJ.U UTOll I.lim U'l. 11 If 1 alliance award had nothing to do with Yoshi-mura's past. "She was rated very highly by a panel of artists" that screened applications, Cook said.

"She went through the system like everyone else." The arts council prnnt was pivpn to Ynshinnira and the Japantown Center Art and Media workshop in San Francisco. Under its terms, the state pays her S800 a month for 10 months and the workshop provides another S200 a month. "Whenever I turn up in the papers, strangers come up to me on the street and start talking," she said as she declined to be interviewed. "I'm really tired of that," she said. "I'm trying to maintain a private life." A cartoonist's change Jeff MacNelly, the Richmond News Leader cartoonist who won Pulitzer Prizes in 1971 and 1977 for his political cartoons, which have appeared in 450 newspapers, announced yesterday that he was giving up daily political cartooning.

MacNelly, 34, said he was quitting to devote more time to his comic strip "Shoe," which is syndicated to 650 newspapers. "The daily demands of the political cartoon make it impossible to expand into other areas," he said. Bill Thompson reveals a new faced, Lady Diana appears ruffled and wind-blown, looking as if she needs a good hairdresser and a few laughs to brighten her appearance," the Daily Mirror said. Australian Treasurer John Howard said the coin be released later this year. Too violent for Bacall Lauren Bacall says her new film.

The Fan, "is much more violent than when I read the script." And she is upset with suggestions that the movie is a dramatization of John I-en-non's murder The film, finished four years ago, is about a psychotic admirer who stalks an aging actress. "The movie I wanted to make had more to do with what happens to the woman and less Iwithl blood and gore," Bacall told People magazine. Grant for Yoshimura Wendy Yoshimura; who, in 1975, was arrested as a fugitive with Patricia Hearst and later convicted on charges of possessing explosives and a machine gun, has received an S8.000 grant from the California Arts Council. When the grant was announced, arts council director Bill Cook was quick to point out that the There's a new man in Margaret Trudeau's life a lawyer-businessman named James Johnson. She says he has been living with her at her Ottawa home.

Mrs, Trudeau, 32, is the estranged wife of Canada's Prime Johnson, who is in his late 30s, recently made their most public appearance at a party at the National Arts Center in Ottawa. The relationship has been an open secret among close friends. Asked their reaction if it were reported that they were living together, Mrs. Trudeau hesitated, looked at Johnson and replied: "Well, it's true. We've been together for sometime." Do they hope to marry? She replied, "We're both still married, each of us with children we're helping to bring up." Johnson said, "We haven't reached that stage." He had a law practice in Ottawa but now runs his family's office furniture business.

She and Trudeau, 61. have been separated since May 1977 and care for their children Justin. 9, Sacha, 7, and Michel, 5 in alternate weeks. Not a good likeness? The Australian press is severely criticizing the design for a commemorative coin in honor of tin1 weduing Margaret Trudeau and James Joh.