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...have been different. Harold Shaw, the new man at Hurok Concerts, is regarded as a sound businessman. His abilities as a starmaker in the Hurok tradition are less well known. Despite the recent depletion of its talent roster, Hurok Concerts still handles a respectable array of artists, including Van Cliburn, Sviatoslav Richter, Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda and Artur Rubinstein. One of the joys of the new Shaw-Hurok liaison, said Shaw last week, is that now Guitarist Bream and Mezzo Baker can give joint recitals in the U.S., as they have in England...
...long series of friendships with performing artists. Bob Dylan, Van Cliburn, Robert Shaw, conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Gregg and Dickie and Marshall Tucker and all the artists on the Capricorn lable...
Pianist Van Cliburn, 40, who has created some waves in the music world, reached a high-water mark last week. Before leaving his hotel suite for an evening concert in Roanoke, Va., the virtuoso began running water for a bath. While the tub filled, Cliburn went to his piano, started practicing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto, and quickly tuned out the rest of the world. In a dining room below, guests could not hear the maestro's music, but they were soon aware of the bath water that had flooded the pianist's quarters and started seeping across...
...attitudes toward late Beethoven. For performers and listeners alike, it is either the ultimate in communicative art or too personal and troubled to share with a large audience. Rubinstein and Horowitz subscribe to the latter view and avoid both the music and the problem. Even a comparative youngster like Cliburn has kept his interpretive thoughts on the matter largely to himself. Fortunately there is Ashkenazy, the finest all-round pianist in music today, a man who is possessed of Schnabel's heart but, unlike Schnabel, has technique to burn. How exquisitely he attends to Beethoven's ruminations...
Margot Fonteyn danced the pas de deux from Swan Lake while Isaac Stern played the violin. Van Cliburn knocked off a Hungarian rhapsody. Shirley Verrett brought down the house with Donizetti. Sol Hurok was celebrating his 60th year as an entrepreneur with a salute from his stars. The audience that packed the Metropolitan Opera House at up to $100 a ticket in tribute to the 85-year-old Russian immigrant was stellar too. In the crowd: Vanderbilts, Astors, Roosevelts, Whitneys, Cristina Ford, Jackie and Aristotle Onassis, and the Prince and Princess Alfonso de Borbon of Spain. A visitor to Hurok...