Word: dobrzynski
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...competition moved toward the finals last week, a battle shaped up between Poland's Witold Dobrzynski, who startled the audience with a dynamic, expert performance of Beauty and the Beast from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, and Denmark's Paul Jorgensen, who became an early favorite with his Victor Borge-like humor, which puzzled spectators but intrigued the judges. Wearing a perpetual wry grin, the Dane began his performance by tapping on the rack to silence not the musicians but the judges themselves. For all his humor, he was adept at dodging errors, at one point marched...
During the final playoff, Dobrzynski floundered badly in a Borodin selection and got lost in Die Fledermaus. When it was Jorgensen's turn, he moved to the podium with the same puzzling grin and waved the orchestra through both pieces without a flaw. During the last test selection-a tricky, untitled tone poem composed by Judge Bigot to tax contestants-Jorgensen drove the orchestra through the score so fast that the string section was glazed with perspiration at the finish. He won first prize hands down. For all his clowning, he had proved himself, in the words of Judge...
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