Word: graffman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone else. Leonard Bernstein, speaking for the judges, pointed out that contestants for the Leventritt do not compete against one another, but against a standard. Not even Block, he said, had measured up to the standard set by such previous winners as Van Cliburn, Malcolm Frager and Gary Graffman...
Then Block took charge at the piano, and with Mozart's "Coronation" Concerto prompted Serkin and Bernstein, Mannes and Graffman and Szell and Firkusny to exchange pleased glances. "Let's hear Beethoven's Opus 27 in E-flat," asked Leopold Mannes from the balcony. Block then eased his way into the Beethoven sonata fantasy with a keen intelligence that paid heed not only to detail but also to essential unity. Displaying versatility as well as virtuosity, Block played a cadenza from a Tchaikovsky concerto and a Liszt sonata. Chattering excitedly, the judges reached a verdict...
...Rudolf Serkin, Leonard Bernstein, George Szell, Rudolf Firkusny, Leopold Mannes, Nadia Reisenberg, Gary Graffman, Claude Frank, Gitta Gradova and Theodore Bloomfield...
...Janis is a member in good standing of the talented generation of pianists who have emerged in the U.S. since World War II: Van Cliburn, Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Leon Fleisher, John Browning, Glenn Gould (a Canadian, but a product of the U.S. concert circuit). All of them are fine technicians-in Janis' case, he thinks, because he had Russian training. "To Russians, the important thing is first knowing the instrument and then having the emotion; Germans, on the other hand, feel that first you play the music and then the instrument...