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After Kozlov put in a plug for peaceful coexistence and confirmed that U-2 Pilot Francis Powers would be given a public trial, the three strolled to the drawing room to listen to a visiting celebrity, Pianist Van Cliburn. As Cliburn launched into Liszt's Twelfth Rhapsody, Mikoyan put a fatherly hand on the shoulder of U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson's daughter Sherry. When Cliburn swung into some lively Russian songs, Mikoyan joined in the chorus...
...compared with the twelve-key reach of Van Cliburn and Rubinstein...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Presentation of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Awards, with winning numbers performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Van Cliburn, Duke Ellington. Color...
...keyboard went through an entire book of beginner's exercises. By the time he was ten, Lorin was playing recitals, and he has been hard at it ever since. He scored his second big recital triumph last January when he filled in for his friend Van Cliburn in San Antonio and received a rare standing ovation from the 6,000 in the audience...
Queen Elisabeth Concours, Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition (which brought previous Leventritt Winner Van Cliburn to fame). Before some of the keenest musical ears in the world,* 58 contestants (all pianists this year) pounded their way through nine days of preliminary competition. By the time they picked the three finalists, the weary panel of judges had listened to some 40 hours of piano playing...