Word: cliburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obbligato of cheers, applause and feminine squeals of "Vanyusha!", curly-haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 27. put on a triumphant two-night stand in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition four years ago. He even got his first piano teacher into the act. Brought onstage by her son, Mrs. Rildia Bee Cliburn, 58, rippled off two warmly applauded pieces. The only clinker of the tour, in fact, was hit by Nikita Khrushchev. Ending a concert attended by the Soviet Premier, the Texas trebler dedicated Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor -'to Nikita...
...residence, headed by Violinist Robert Mann. Juilliard stresses contemporary music, believing that "musicians of a given epoch have the responsibility for the music of their time." It emphasizes student performances, which frequently are attended by artists' managers and talent scouts for major orchestras and opera houses. Van Cliburn, Leontyne Price and John Browning were all signed after Juilliard performances...
...give the award to Block or anyone else. Leonard Bernstein, speaking for the judges, pointed out that contestants for the Leventritt do not compete against one another, but against a standard. Not even Block, he said, had measured up to the standard set by such previous winners as Van Cliburn, Malcolm Frager and Gary Graffman...
...didn't really want to go to Moscow," said she to the New York Times, "but the Institute of International Education raised the money for the trip. Of course, a good showing is important toward launching a career, although it's pretty unlikely that the Van Cliburn experience will ever be repeated." One annoyance of the competition, Susan found, was "learning a lot of repertory that I wouldn't otherwise have bothered with. There was a piece composed for the contest by a young composer named Pirumov that was pretty tricky, and I may keep...
...jolly good bash" was Soviet Russia's Second International Tchaikovsky Competition, first to be held since 1958, when Louisiana-born Van Cliburn captured the prize-and Russia with it. The "gamble" for gifted young English Pianist John Ogdon, 25, was whether to go into hock and cancel several engagements in order to compete in Moscow. Last week, Ogdon won his gamble, and shared first place with veteran Soviet Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy...