Word: cliburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winner of the Van Cliburn International Competition, Ralph Votapek [Oct. 19] gave new cultural luster to Milwaukee...
...recipient of all these honors had just won the first Van Cliburn International Piano competition, and with it the largest cash prize-$10,000-ever given a performing artist in the U.S. Votapek, a pupil of Cliburn's teacher Rosina Lhevinne, had to beat out 45 contestants from 16 nations, including two fine Soviet pianists who finished second and third. A softspoken, shy young man, he played the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto and the first movement of the Beethoven Fourth, singing his way into their reflective passages and kindling fire from their climaxes with an ease and fluidity that...
...bring about a change here that will influence the entire future of ballet and music.'' Few who sensed the shock waves of excitement in Russian intellectual circles last week doubted that Balanchine knew what he was talking about. The visits of U.S. instrumentalists such as Van Cliburn and Isaac Stern may have been more loudly acclaimed by the Russian man in the street. But it remained for Russia's two great expatriates -one of whom had not set foot in his homeland for half a century, the other for better than 35 years-to trouble and challenge...
...including Tenors Richard Tucker and Jon Vickers, Soprano Eileen Farrell and Mezzo-Soprano Shirley Verrett-Carter. The Philharmonic was followed in later programs by the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland orchestras, by the New York Pro Musica, the Juilliard String Quartet, the Metropolitan Opera, assorted pianists (including Van Cliburn), and by Adlai Stevenson, who, in excellent voice, provided the narration to Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait...
...Lammermoor. The attendance made Soprano Sutherland one of the most popular female performers ever to appear at the Stadium (one who topped her: Marian Anderson, who drew 23,000 in 1940). Sutherland's crowd was a notch above last year's high (19,500 for Pianist Van Cliburn) and not far behind Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's (21,000 in 1957). But she was still an octave or two behind Lewisohn's champion crowd pullers: Harry Belafonte (over 25,000 in 1956) and Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza, whose virile basso cantante and brawny frame also drew over...