Word: cliburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instant success: contests. More combat than competition, music tournaments have grown in size and importance to the point where there is a contest among contests, each one claiming to be more prestigious than the next. But when it comes to money, none can match Fort Worth's Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Piano Competition, which offers a top prize of $10,000 and a bundle of fringe benefits that includes everything but an oil well...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "A Portrait of Van Cliburn" follows the pianist from rehearsal to performance and during rare relaxation...
Pianist Dichter-who was born in Shanghai midway in his parents' flight from Poland in 1945-also turned on Tanglewood's audiences. He played the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, a risky selection for any young pianist ever since Van Cliburn's powerful, sweeping version of it carried him to victory in the 1958 Moscow competition. But Dichter made the concerto his own, giving it unusual clarity and lightness...
...opened with a performance of Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Next week Dancer-Choreographer Edward Villella will perform the world premiere of his Narkissos. Next month Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra will accompany such artists as Soprano Leontyne Price, Violinist Isaac Stern and Pianist Van Cliburn. Talking about his musicians, the maestro is already picking up the language of the track. "My Phillies are chomping at the bit," says Ormandy. "But I will have to schedule rehearsals during racing hours because I saw what happened when the orchestra played in Reno." The Saratoga Performing Arts Center...
Brilliant as Sokolov was, some judges felt that Dichter was incomparable. During the second round, he played the Schubert Sonata in A Major and Stravinsky's Petrushka in a dazzling bravura style that prompted Soviet Pianist Lev Vlasenko (who ran second to Cliburn in 1958) to cheer him as "the best musician among the piano finalists...