Word: cliburn
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...would be fitting to say that Van Cliburn's talent was discovered in June 1952, when, at the age of 17, he received the Chopin Scholarship of $1,000 from the Kosciuszko Foundation. This will surely gladden the hearts of the captive people of Poland and of all U.S. citizens of Polish descent...
While the flashbulbs flared, a reporter asked the question: How did Van Cliburn, hero returned from Moscow, feel about playing in Carnegie Hall before some of the biggest names in U.S. music? Drawled Van: "In general, I wish I didn't have...
Emotion & Poise. Pianist Cliburn played the two main pieces with which he won first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition: Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1, Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3. The conception in both was sweeping, the technique so sure that he rippled off the Rachmaninoff without cuts and with the finger-cracking cadenza that the pianist-composer himself chose not to play. Despite a few nervous smashes in the opening Tchaikovsky, he played with such bravura and nuance that the audience paid him the rare tribute of thunderous applause between movements. After both concertos, as he rushed...
Next day Van piled into an open car and drove in a tickertape-strewn motorcade up Broadway behind three high school bands. At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner produced a scroll proclaiming "Van Cliburn Day," while teen-agers and office workers milled about gawking at Van ("He's cuter than Tony Perkins...
...tore the handles from the doors of his limousine. In Washington, before his concert at Constitution Hall, he went to the White House with his parents and Conductor Kondrashin. President Eisenhower gave him a preperformance pep talk: "After that kind of ordeal over there, you will be all right." Cliburn hit Constitution Hall like a landslide, stayed for lunch in the Senate Dining Room with the congressional delegation from Texas. At week's end he returned to Manhattan to appear on TV's Steve Allen Show and to get ready for his first RCA Victor recording...