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DAVID OISTRAKH, 53, was already a legend before he briefly left Russia to conquer the U.S. in 1955. Son of a poor Jewish bookkeeper in Odessa, he started playing a one-eighth-sized violin when he was five, supported his family as a wandering fiddler after graduation from the Odessa...
Although Browning has yet to achieve the international reputation enjoyed by such contemporaries as Van Cliburn and Glenn Gould, he has had his share of triumphs: a winner of the coveted Leventritt Award in 1955, a gold-medal winner in 1956 at Brussels' Queen Elisabeth Concours (in which he...
* The Russians are taking no chances on letting their own Tchaikovsky Prize go to a foreigner again: in next spring's contest they have entered Vladimir Ashkenazy, one of the world's ranking pianists, who won the Queen Elisabeth Concours back in 1956.
Private Enterprise. The Mitropoulos Competition offered a first prize of $5.000, as compared with the $3,000 offered by Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours and the $2,500 won by Cliburn in the Tchaikovsky Competition. The scope of the competition was all the more remarkable, said U.N. Ambassador Adlai...
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor (Leon Fleisher, pianist; the Cleveland Orchestra, under George Szell; Epic). When he won Belgium's famed International Concours in 1952, recalls San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher, he was known as a garden-variety YAP (Young American Pianist). In time he became a DYAP...