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...Joseph Silverstein. The pianist played "as well as anybody need ever play," said Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. The soloists who won these praises from such rigorous judges were not big concert stars but virtually unknown American students: New York City's Stephen Kates, 23, and Los Angeles' Misha Dichter, 20, both fresh from winning silver medals at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
America's other Tchaikovsky prizewinners-Sopranos Jane Marsh, 24, and Veronica Tyler, 29, and Bass Simon Estes, 28-had already made impressive postcontest showings with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood last month. Now Kates and Dichter as well have added luster to their own bright promise...
...AFTERNOON AT TANGLEWOOD (NBC, 2:30-5 p.m.). An NBC News Special live, from the Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. The program includes Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra and solo performances by Pianist Misha Dichter and Violinist Masuko Yushioda, both winners of the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
Brilliant as Sokolov was, some judges felt that Dichter was incomparable. During the second round, he played the Schubert Sonata in A Major and Stravinsky's Petrushka in a dazzling bravura style that prompted Soviet Pianist Lev Vlasenko (who ran second to Cliburn in 1958) to cheer him as "the best musician among the piano finalists...
...Conductor Walter Hendl, a judge in the piano competition, agreed that Sokolov was a true Wunderkind, but that Dichter had a more promising future as a soloist. Still, when the Russians broached the idea of dividing the first prize between Sokolov and Dichter, Hendl vetoed it on the grounds that dividing leading prizes weakened their impact. The jury voted, Sokolov won, and the crowd promptly went wild-for Dichter. Five hundred Russians who had stayed until 2 a.m. to hear the results, kept chanting "Bravo Dichter! Bravo Dichter!", and several women wept and pressed flowers into his outstretched hands...