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...fences or peered from apartment house windows more than a block away. Inside, early arrivals snatched all available folding chairs, forcing many a reserved-seat ticket holder to hunker on the ground. The scene was an impressive if chaotic tribute to the continuing musical phenomenon known as Van Cliburn...
...Lewisohn concerts have had a bad summer at the box office, only once filling better than half the seats. But Pianist Cliburn's appearance there last week-his first in New York at popular prices in more than a year-drew a capacity 20,000, proving that three years after his Moscow triumph he still commands a movie-fan idolatry rare among longhairs. His ardently romantic manner of playing the piano is only part of the appeal; Cliburn also obviously enjoys crowds and loves applause and has a showman's sure instinct for using his gifts. At Lewisohn...
...Janis is a member in good standing of the talented generation of pianists who have emerged in the U.S. since World War II: Van Cliburn, Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Leon Fleisher, John Browning, Glenn Gould (a Canadian, but a product of the U.S. concert circuit). All of them are fine technicians-in Janis' case, he thinks, because he had Russian training. "To Russians, the important thing is first knowing the instrument and then having the emotion; Germans, on the other hand, feel that first you play the music and then the instrument...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Van Cliburn, Benny Goodman, Sally Ann Howes, Howard Keel, Ballerina Melissa Hayden. Color...
Winding up a three-month tour of the Soviet Union, thicket-topped Pianist Van Cliburn, 26, beyond dispute the Russians' favorite American, played, sang and wept through a televised farewell concert, also posed with two other TV stars, Belka and Strelka, the Soviet space dogs. Presented with his tour earnings of roughly $8,000, Cliburn, not permitted to take the money back to the U.S., passed up a chance to shoot the wad on a luxurious...