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...judges: Rudolf Serkin, George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Abram Chasins, Nadia Rei-senberg, Alexander Schneider, Lillian Fuchs, Leopold Mannes, Arthur Judson, Eugene Istomin. -Born Lucy Hickenlooper in San Antonio, she changed her name to cater to the U.S. predilection for foreign musical artists. From 1911, until her divorce in 1923, she also answered to the name of Mrs. Leopold Stokowski...
...Britain's Sir Arthur Bliss: "He plays with fire and poetry, and gives vitality to every phrase." More cautious, U.S. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos feels that Van "could rise to Rubinstein's stature, but at the moment it's not fair to compare them." Says Piano Critic Abram (Speaking of Pianists) Chasins: "Van is a born flaming virtuoso...
Pianists: Jacques Abram, Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Lillian Kallir, Rudolf Serkin, Ruth Slenczynska...
Violinist Kogan, 33, started tangling with technical difficulties as a seven-year-old prodigy in Dnepropetrovsk, was soon tagged as a good cultural investment, entered the Moscow Conservatory to study under Abram Yampolsky. In 1951 he burst spectacularly on the international musical scene by winning Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours against the best young talent of the West. Now married to Elizabeth Gilels, younger sister of famed Pianist Emil Gilels and a fine violinist in her own right, Kogan is something of a musical hero in Russia. To the impressed men of the Boston string section last week...
...United States should meet the recent Russian campaign to aid underdeveloped countries with a "bolder and more vigorous foreign economic program," Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, said last night. Bergson spoke in a lecture at the Geographical Institute on "The Rise of Economic Competition in the Cold...