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...Kiril Lakota was a Ukrainian, and at 50 he was the youngest and most obscure of the 85 cardinals who met in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new Pope. His very name had just become known in Rome, having been kept in petto by the dead Pontiff-as are currently the names of three cardinals in the breast of Pope John. Said Kiril to his brother princes: "I have spent the last 17 years in prison. If I have any rights among you. let it be that I speak for the lost ones, for those who walk in darkness...
...Janis' second Russian tour were both judges and contestants from the Tchaikovsky Competition, plus Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson. For the occasion, Janis attempted a staggering tour de force: three major concertos in a single concert. While rehearsing the Rachmaninoff First and the Schumann and Prokofiev Thirds with Conductor Kiril Kondrashin and the Moscow Philharmonic, Janis felt "like a race horse trying for the Triple Crown." Conductor Kondrashin was confident: "I have now heard a pianist who can play three utterly different concertos with a perfect sense of style -one of the greatest pianists of this age." The audience apparently agreed...
...artist to sell 1,000,000 classical LPs. His recording: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which captured first prize for him in the spring of 1958 in Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Competition and which he recorded two weeks later in empty Carnegie Hall, Russia's Kiril Kondrashin conducting...
...were offering a straight Tchaikovsky repertory during the first two weeks of their stay, with no other classics and no modern works. (Muttered Permanent Conductor Konstantin Ivanov, who wanted to play more Beethoven: "I suppose King Hurok knows best.") Under the 52-year-old Ivanov and 45-year-old Kiril Kondrashin. one of Russia's most active guest conductors, the 106-man Moscow symphony displayed some solid virtues and some marked weaknesses. The Russians attacked their Tchaikovsky less fiercely than many U.S. orchestras, and the old tub thumpers emerged at times with a lacy lightness lost in many...
When he arrived, he had been virtually without sleep for two nights. Mobbed by the press and friends, he sandwiched in three Manhattan rehearsals with Soviet Conductor Kiril P. Kondrashin and the Symphony of the Air. The queues for standing room started forming outside Carnegie-Hall early in the morning, and nearly an hour before the concert the hall began filling. Van himself arrived backstage five minutes after Conductor Kondrashin had launched the orchestra into Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Before his cue came, he prayed. Then the 6-ft. 4-in. Texan strode onstage and proved to doubters that...