Word: lavan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still cashing in on his Moscow triumph, Pianist Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. boosted his standard concert fee to $4,000 for an afternoon appearance at the University of Texas, charged $500 for letting students into his morning rehearsal, and picked up $6,000 more for an extra performance later. Delighted to be paying so much for their music, Texans named Van an admiral in the Texas navy...
Surrounded by personal representatives, pressagents and recording executives, Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. strode into the mahogany-stained elegance of Manhattan's Steinway Hall one day last week to chat about his improbably skyrocketing career. During the fall and winter season, he said, he would play roughly 55 concerts with orchestras across the country. He would also throw his rehearsals open to teenagers. He drew a check for $1,250 from his pocket (part of his $6,250 Moscow prize money) and presented it to the city of New York to be used to start other young artists on their...
Idol. Certainly, Van never felt entirely at home in the small, dusty East Texas town nestled in a forest of oil derricks where he grew up. He was born Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., in Shreveport, La., an only child, in the eleventh year of his parents' marriage. His father is a minor oil-company executive with a modest income, his mother a talented piano teacher who studied in New York with Liszt's longtime pupil, Arthur Friedheim. She was on the verge of making her debut under her maiden name, Rildia Bee O'Bryan, when her mother...
...ably about on the minute Agassiz stage. It is perhaps the tiny stage that accounts for the undistinguished nature of Nancy Ryan's choreography. Lucy Garretson's two piano reduction of the score is all that might be asked and it is adequately played by Miss Garretson and Larry Lavan...