Word: cliburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEDICATION CONCERT AT JUILLIARD (CBS, 5:30-7 p.m.). Live coverage of the dedication concert from Alice Tully Hall, featuring performances by Van Cliburn, Shirley Verrett, Itzhak Perlman, with Leopold Stokowski and Jean Morel sharing the direction of a 70-piece symphony orchestra...
...distinct disappointment. Recorded in the Philadelphia Academy of Music rather than in the ballroom used by Columbia, their sound is often dry and devoid of the luster for which the orchestra is famous. Charles Ives' Third Symphony and an LP of Grieg and Liszt concertos with Pianist Van Cliburn as soloist are the best of the lot. But the Chopin F-minor Concerto with Artur Rubinstein is heavy and graceless, and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony lacks the bite and immediacy of a nine-year-old version that Columbia re-engineered and rereleased last year. Bruckner's Seventh...
...commercials. The most spectacular application of the Moog to date is Composer Walter Carlos' electronic "orchestration" of ten Bach compositions for a Columbia LP called Switched-On Bach. The album has sold nearly 150,000 copies in four months, which makes it the hottest classical LP since Van Cliburn's 1958 version of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. The album's widespread appeal bears out what Composer John Eaton says of Moog: "He has brought electronic music out of the lab and into our lives...
Keeping the Momentum. Cliburn, now 34, has not always played so well in recent years. In Manhattan alone, three of his appearances in the past two seasons-especially a performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic in May-were considerably off his best form...
...Some of Cliburn's admirers believe that such lapses-as well as the lengthening pauses between record releases-result from the strain of trying to be both an artist and a commercial phenomenon in the music business. To keep up the momentum that started in Moscow in 1958, Cliburn plays a punishing concert schedule of well over 100 appearances a year. At fees that start at $7,500 for a solo appearance, this means that he makes something like a million dollars a year, including record royalties -although he coyly denies that he is rich ("Heavens, no!"). Furthermore...