Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billboard in front of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is a picture of a blue-eyed, shock-haired Texan, partly obscured by a green-lettered streamer: SOLD OUT. Long before the concert was scheduled, Berlin-based Musicologist Paul Moor, a onetime professional pianist himself, went to Moscow to cover the Tchaikovsky International Competition for TIME, soon began to file glowing reports about 23-year-old Van Cliburn's performances, and his triumph as a winner of the first piano prize. At the request of Cliburn's parents, Moor became a kind of ex-officio manager...
...popular acclaim ever accorded a U.S. musician. Next week Manhattan will give him a national hero's welcome back to the U.S. with a ticker-tape parade up Broadway. He will go to Washington to be received by the President of the U.S. His first post-Russia concert (in which he will repeat his Moscow prizewinning pieces: Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1, Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3) has swamped Carnegie Hall with the heaviest demand for tickets in all its glittering history...
...hands on his knees, close his eyes, inhale four times in staccato gasps through the nose until his lungs are expanded to bursting, finally exhale through his nose in four staccato installments. Finally, he will pray. Then he will walk onstage at Carnegie Hall to play the toughest concert of his life...
...religious, and a conscientious teetotaler, he is a twice-over tither; i.e., he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During Evangelist Billy Graham's Manhattan crusade last year, Van sang in the Madison Square Garden choir alongside Ethel Waters. He once skipped a $500 concert date so that he could play for a church banquet in Paramus, NJ. Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, "Maestro, let us pray." Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with the pianist. Said...
...Genius." Irreverent sophisticates of the concert halls may laugh at Van-but not when he sits down to play. Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, whom the Russians regard as their best, dubbed Van "a genius -a word I do not use lightly about performers." In tears of emotion Pianist Emil Gilels grabbed Van as he came off the stage after playing Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto, bussed him soundly on both cheeks. To Composer Aram Khachaturian, Van was "better than Rachmaninoff; you find a virtuoso like this only once or twice in a century." France's Marquis de Gontaut-Biron...