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Distinguished instrumental competitions are not rare in the U.S.. but lately not even the tough Leventritt International Competition, which awards a first prize only in the years the talent merits one. has attracted the foreign talent that Moscow's Tchaikovsky Competition drew in its first year (1958), when it boosted Van Cliburn to world fame. With world wide competitions getting increasing attention, the U.S. needs an instrumental contest with truly international appeal-and the Mitropoulos Competition is an effort to fill...
Biggest Prize. Pianist Anievas, 27, is no stranger to career-building contests; he won the Michaels Memorial Competition in Chicago in 1958, was a finalist at Brussels in 1960 (tenth place), competed for the Leventritt Award a year ago. Will he enter the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow this spring? Says Anievas: "No, I think I should quit while I'm ahead." If he changes his mind, there is still another contest in the offing: the Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Competition, to be held in Fort Worth next fall, which will offer $10,000 as first prize, making...
When he won the Leventritt Award last fall, Pianist Malcolm Frager, 24, was hailed as one of the most promising keyboard talents to turn up in many a year. The son of a St. Louis stocking manufacturer, Frager started playing the piano at four, was giving recitals when he was six, has appeared with most front-rank U.S. orchestras. Last week, against a field of twelve finalists, Frager walked off with the $3,000 first prize in Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours, becoming the first instrumentalist to win the two toughest competitions in music...
Winner Frager won a $1,000 cash prize and engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Buffalo, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit and Pittsburgh orchestras. Three times a Leventritt finalist (in 1955, '56 and '57), Frager has played with the Detroit Symphony and other front-ranking U.S. orchestras. The son of a stocking manufacturer, he started playing the piano at four, was giving recitals in his native St. Louis when he was six. By the time Frager graduated with honors from Columbia (major: Russian) he had already won several piano prizes, and taken a turn about a European concert...
...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...