Word: cliburn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Presentation of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Awards, with winning numbers performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Van Cliburn, Duke Ellington. Color...
...keyboard went through an entire book of beginner's exercises. By the time he was ten, Lorin was playing recitals, and he has been hard at it ever since. He scored his second big recital triumph last January when he filled in for his friend Van Cliburn in San Antonio and received a rare standing ovation from the 6,000 in the audience...
Queen Elisabeth Concours, Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition (which brought previous Leventritt Winner Van Cliburn to fame). Before some of the keenest musical ears in the world,* 58 contestants (all pianists this year) pounded their way through nine days of preliminary competition. By the time they picked the three finalists, the weary panel of judges had listened to some 40 hours of piano playing...
...haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 24, recently given to muttering about his mysterious true love, either unveiled the damsel herself or made a third party quite jealous. Stalked by a photographer for the London Evening News, Van was spotted strolling hand in hand with pretty, young (19) Tonina Dorati, daughter of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Antal Dorati, now also on a European tour. Earlier, Cliburn characterized his nameless heartthrob as "someone who thinks she's a musician-but she's not." By coincidence, Tonina plays the piano without distinction...
...rumors spread through the capital, Michiko Shoda suddenly left Japan, on her first trip abroad, visited Europe and the U.S., where she heard Pianist Van Cliburn play his first concert in Carnegie Hall. There were letters along the way from the prince, and, troubled, Michiko wrote her parents: "I don't believe commoners should be united with the imperial family. I doubt if such a step would have good results." To the prince she wrote: "I hope you will let me be a close friend of yours for a long, long time...