Word: graffman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judges: Abram Chasins, Gitta Gradova, George Szell, Rudolf Serkin, Rudolf Firkusny, Leopold Marines, Xadia Reisenberg, Alfred Wallenstein, Leon Fleisher and two previous Leventritt winners, Eugene Istomin and Gary Graffman...
...countries." Van's victory dramatically underscored that there is more first-rate native instrumental talent in the U.S. than in the whole of Europe. Moreover, the talent is younger. In Cliburn's generation there are at least nine pianists of equal native ability: Byron Janis, 30, Gary Graffman, 29, Seymour Lipkin, 31, Jacob Lateiner, 30, Claude Frank, 32, John Browning, 24, Eugene Istomin, 32, Leon Fleisher, 31, and Canada's Glenn Gould, 25, who has played widely in the U.S. By contrast, Europe has a small handful of young pianists -Austria's Friedrich Gulda and Paul...
Pianists: Jacques Abram, Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Lillian Kallir, Rudolf Serkin, Ruth Slenczynska...
Three Piano Musketeers. Manhattan-born Pianist Graffman, 29, played for the first time with a full symphony orchestra (the Indianapolis) when he was still a knickerbockered scholarship student at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. A local critic decided that his "assurance, ease and poise" were "a bit terrifying." The son of Russian-born parents, he followed a path after Indianapolis that is familiar to many another promising young U.S. soloist: special award in the Rachmaninoff Fund's nationwide piano contest, guest appearances with half a dozen U.S. symphonies, an RCA Victor recording contract. In the in-between...
...Graffman, Istomin and Fleisher share remarkably similar backgrounds, musical tastes and careers (Lateiner has not yet performed as widely as the other three). Like Graffman, both Istomin, 31, and Fleisher, 29, are the sons of Russian-born parents. Brooklyn-born Eugene Istomin abandoned a boyhood ambition to play for the Dodgers (he served as their water boy during one spring training) in favor of a scholarship at Curtis, where he studied under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher studied under Artur Schnabel in Manhattan, got his biggest professional boost five years ago when he won Belgium...