Word: concourses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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* 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...
When he won the Leventritt Award last fall, Pianist Malcolm Frager, 24, was hailed as one of the most promising keyboard talents to turn up in many a year. The son of a St. Louis stocking manufacturer, Frager started playing the piano at four, was giving recitals when he was...