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BRAHMS: FIRST PIANO CONCERTO (RCA Victor). Van Cliburn digs into the technically difficult passages and plays them eloquently, but when there is nothing to display but the music itself, he has much less to say. With Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony...
BRAHMS: FANTASIES OPUS 116 (Deutsche Grammophon). What Van Cliburn lacks in the Brahms concerto, Pianist Wilhelm Kempff supplies here in full measure, condensing a whole spectrum of feelings into these seven melodic miniatures of Brahms's maturity...
When Jack Kennedy died, part of Pierre died with him. Certainly the White House never again seemed the same to Salinger. Lyndon Johnson laughed at Pierre, not with him. Once Johnson ragged Salinger into playing the piano for visiting German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard-just after Soloist Van Cliburn had performed. On another occasion, Johnson cajoled Pierre into climbing aboard a horse at the L.B.J. ranch, and while Salinger sat there like Humpty Dumpty, Lyndon whooped, "Ole Tex Salinger!" Salinger is a man of humor, but he does not like to be made a fool of, and it was only...
Mapping the Campaign. The Serenade for Four Orchestras played before the biggest crowd of the season-14,592-but the drawing card was Van Cliburn as soloist in the main body of the program. When Serenade's opening statement in the Number One orchestra ended and the echoes began, everybody looked surprised, and there was much craning of necks to locate the elusive Four. In 18 minutes it was over, and the audience gave it a warm round of applause, but no accolade. Said one female Cliburnite to a colleague: "What the hell was that...
...Mother, Daddy and Lynda." But they needn't have worried. For each of her two drawling but nonchalant narrations of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf at Michigan's Interlochen Music Camp, Luci Baines Johnson, 17, drew three curtain calls when she performed with Pianist Van Cliburn, 30, who conducted the camp's 150-member student orchestra. Whatever criticism Luci Baines is going to get (and under the circumstances, it will scarcely be fanged), will come when her version of the Russian fairy tale is beamed back whence it came, via the Voice of America...