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...drive to tear up all roots that bind China to Western culture, many top artists and performers are going through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have...
...Pianist Van Cliburn played at Michigan's Interlochen National Music Camp, recorded two Chopin sonatas in a New York studio, packed the Hollywood Bowl for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, and ate a folksy dinner with his parents and friends at their home in Shreveport, La. In between times, he mused about himself, his fame and his music: "The role of a concert artist in a concert hall will never be eclipsed...
...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A galaxy of stars twinkling in tribute to Impresario Sol Hurok. Representing only a few of the hundreds he has sponsored during the past 55 years are Marian Anderson, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, Andres Segovia, the Bolshoi Ballet with Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and Antonio and the Ballets de Madrid...
...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...
Hoping to cash in on the riches, 47 pianists from 16 nations entered this year's Cliburn competition. To begin with, each performer was required to play ten selections, ranging from the baroque to the severely modern. It was all severely worrisome. Rumania's fidgety, fingernail-chewing Radu Lupu, 20, one of the six finalists, suffered from a case of "the dry heaves," had to be rescued from the men's room before each performance. On the day of the finals, he arose from a practice session and in his excitement cracked his head on a ledge...