Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without sleep for two nights. Mobbed by the press and friends, he sandwiched in three Manhattan rehearsals with Soviet Conductor Kiril P. Kondrashin and the Symphony of the Air. The queues for standing room started forming outside Carnegie-Hall early in the morning, and nearly an hour before the concert the hall began filling. Van himself arrived backstage five minutes after Conductor Kondrashin had launched the orchestra into Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Before his cue came, he prayed. Then the 6-ft. 4-in. Texan strode onstage and proved to doubters that he was up to his billing...
Profit in His Own Land. In midweek Van moved to Philadelphia and the same kind of reception. After his concert at the Academy of Music, he escaped through a shrieking crowd that 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...
...compositions are to be scored for a regular orchestra, and should last about 20 minutes. The winner will be honored by hearing his piece played by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra during its April concert...
...Moving Van"), and settle down for a concert tour. Next day Van was back at Idlewild airport to embrace a new buddy, Soviet Conductor Kiril Kondrashin, who will direct orchestras for Van in New York, Philadelphia and Washington...
...called the tune: nobody, from Liberace to Rubinstein, it turned out. could play an instrument for pay in the U.S. without his consent. "What's the difference," he demanded, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Once he decided to give a concert honoring Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly for political favors, and "suggested" to 23 bandleaders, including Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring. Tommy Dorsey and Kay Kyser, that they bring their orchestras to Chicago at their own expense. They all came, and with them the orchestras of three national radio networks...