Word: cliburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fences or peered from apartment house windows more than a block away. Inside, early arrivals snatched all available folding chairs, forcing many a reserved-seat ticket holder to hunker on the ground. The scene was an impressive if chaotic tribute to the continuing musical phenomenon known as Van Cliburn...
...Lewisohn concerts have had a bad summer at the box office, only once filling better than half the seats. But Pianist Cliburn's appearance there last week-his first in New York at popular prices in more than a year-drew a capacity 20,000, proving that three years after his Moscow triumph he still commands a movie-fan idolatry rare among longhairs. His ardently romantic manner of playing the piano is only part of the appeal; Cliburn also obviously enjoys crowds and loves applause and has a showman's sure instinct for using his gifts. At Lewisohn...
Scheduled to come on during the second half of the program to play the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. I (which, along with the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 3, is still his big showpiece), Cliburn artfully delayed his appearance for several suspenseful minutes after the lights went down. Finally he strode boyishly out, all arms, to thunderous applause...
...Janis is a member in good standing of the talented generation of pianists who have emerged in the U.S. since World War II: Van Cliburn, Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Leon Fleisher, John Browning, Glenn Gould (a Canadian, but a product of the U.S. concert circuit). All of them are fine technicians-in Janis' case, he thinks, because he had Russian training. "To Russians, the important thing is first knowing the instrument and then having the emotion; Germans, on the other hand, feel that first you play the music and then the instrument...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Van Cliburn, Benny Goodman, Sally Ann Howes, Howard Keel, Ballerina Melissa Hayden. Color...