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...regularly summons to the great romantic literature of the piano-Brahms, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt-more poetry and grandeur than any other pianist alive. The moderns, Rubinstein thinks, are best left to "the brilliant youngsters to whom these sounds are more natural" (although one of the brilliant youngsters, Van Cliburn, has emerged as Rubinstein's logical successor as a master of the musical romantics...
Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A tribute to the eminent violinist, taped last April. With Isaac Stern, Van Cliburn, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Benny Goodman and his sextet, and Roberta Peters...
Scheduled to come on during the second half of the program to play the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. I (which, along with the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 3, is still his big showpiece), Cliburn artfully delayed his appearance for several suspenseful minutes after the lights went down. Finally he strode boyishly out, all arms, to thunderous applause...
Expertly supported by Conductor Vladimir Golschmann, Cliburn shaped a characteristic performance-simple, water-clear, eloquent in every detail. And it brought an ovation. As the orchestra was packing its instruments, Cliburn reappeared to play an encore-Chopin's A-flat Polonaise. Then another, Rachmaninoff's Etude Tableau. The orchestra left for the night, but the audience stayed on. Cliburn played Albéniz' Eritaña. He walked offstage and came back again, smiling and bowing. At last he stole a look at the piano, walked over to it. put a hand on it and-to another...
...past year, Cliburn has crisscrossed the U.S., visited Mexico and made his second triumphant tour of Russia, rarely playing to anything but sellouts. Cliburn is something of a prisoner of his success: a man whose temperament and talent favors the romantic, he has recorded Schumann. MacDowell, Prokofiev and Beethoven. But his audiences often demand Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. What he clearly needs to do now is learn the trick-invaluable to any artist-of occasionally saying no to the fans...