European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine guitar Prodigy Segovia just happened to live Down the Street Turo Niiro karnal constantly trying to earn by Dan Wakfield entertainment Etlor Twenty our yeah old Tura Mizra Ion of tatar student o be proud Holder of an american pass was returned to the stage for five encores by an enthusiastic crowd in Munich Hercules the Young classical guitarist made the Slop As part of an extended Winter tour dial look him to Western Romania and his technical proficiency on Ute instrument la astounding to compare his playing la that of the average Barracks serum nor is to compare Miles Davis to cub scout the Range of his performance took in elements of Folk and what is called contemporary music written id the my doth Century by modems who assert continuity Between the work of the great classical composers and their the performance was an interesting display of Talent Kama scene destined to earn a tasting place in the ranks of the great guitarists of modern and his name Wilt almost certainly become Al least As Well known be those of his who besides Andres Segovia to eluded Julian Bream and John intensely ambitious and Kamal Speaks of himself an example of How Opportunity Waits Tor minorities in a person from any ethnic has Ibe Opportunity to go to the University or and get anything they in not saying we dont have our problems in sure we but if you look at other he Titan Bora so know about de la other whose tatar Tori Lage to important him w us it Quick to Emp Hatlett that to Art people dont reality there Are More turks or turkic people within the soviet Union and China than there Are to we number to or 80 million which some people mispronounce we Are the same people As the huns of people of Tamerlane or Genghis Kahn they Are All the same there with mongols but there two different we Are ethnically Kamal has set to music his feelings on the tatar revolt against he czarist regime in the mid 19th part of thu tilted i and Viii was included in his my first name turan u the name of the defined by the following geographical limits from the ural mountains to the sea of Japan and Frum the Cauca sus to the Arctic All of that is in that area they speak a turkic Lunga Gether Are Many tribes like the american indians hey Are All one Ilia parents met in the chinese City of tientsin during world War my mothers father was to the fur and Wool business it was one of the biggest firms in All of Siberia and Kashmir and my father was inducted into the soviet forces and got along badly enough in that army to find himself behind russian father eventually found himself of rus Sias Laitem front in japanese occupied where he was manned and shortly after taken Pris Oner a Ltd Hii Bride by the my father spent the duration of the after getting out of the russian in a japanese concentration Camp with my that was their after the War they went on to America then to Indonesia when i waa bom in Hes a writer he was sent by life Magazine to do two feature articles on the state of Indonesia after their War of Independence from the his Fay now naturalized moved on to America for a Short then to Switzer settled Tor Long time in where i got most of my ii was in Home of the guitar As it exists thai Young turan found his his first guitar teach Antonio Ortega took him to Segovia at the age o Segovia just happened to live right Down the Street from where we did in we lived in number 15 he lived in f had the very food Fortune of being taken under his not like Many people who lust study in to master 1 studied with him in his he gave me a scholarship to study with him there and 1 went to study with Williams and also with Julian All this before 1 was Al h i said i was finished with i told my my father spent the duration of the after getting out of the russian in a Jop onese concentration Camp with my that was their january 1978 father thai was that i  go to school i  relate to my Peers or my teachers at that he apply to universities and things like 1 went into the school and said i wanted to take the College the whatever there the teachers though was absolutely they just laughed at me youve failed  i Wai just general i was interested in Ocean in writing and in and unless the teacher said something very very my mind went somewhere else very hit teachers finally arranged the Tesu and were or pulsed to find Ikeler Daw popu Felling Mph enough Corei to earn acceptance from several american Loc Lattof where he began College work Al is and had graduated by the Lime Hezam there was no Competition in my so i went to 1 went to study in i studied in France for three 1 studied both architecture and music and in constantly trying to team t remember something my rather told me when i Wax a Little boy a Man who is Rich is a Man who is Rich in the Sod arid the and not in the its definitely How i the depth of his Talent is but he attributes his continuing Success mostly to perspiration Ive worked hard All my Ive seen too Many people who have had qualities and possibilities who never worked and it went own the on stage he spurns Over Reliance on the usually Moil people prefer to play the Safe Ivilue pieces they know they re going to get a certain reaction out of they never Lake the i always Lake i May change the program i May put across something i know it not winning the audience i dont go out there and prostrate but t try to get the audience involved in try to open new ave after that is my rate in not just Here to collect my Money and in not much of a Pom Pous fellow that music Means a tremendous amount to it has to do something for it i do something exactly the Way f practice it to Here and dont take he there has to he if you want to hear some thing on the second string instead of the first go ahead and do Kamal has already earned More than his share of the honors available to american he received first prize last year from the National society of arts and utters for and now the National endow ment for the arts wants to give me a big Grant so i can write a till come through at least in he also turns his hand la it runs to the in the first musician in the history of the the stars and stripes Pogo 13