Word: paderewski
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...list of pianists to the golden 74 included here. The selection will not please everyone. Partisans and critics already want to know why their favorites were passed over: "Where is Stephen Kovacevich's incomparable Schubert?" asked Hilary Finch of the London Times. But the reputations of the represented artists--Paderewski, Horowitz, Brendel--are indisputable. "Of course, this was a subjective and somewhat personal exercise," says Deacon. "I'm not arguing that some of those excluded aren't great. We are only saying the ones we selected are unquestionably great...
...piano, reminding his listeners that it is the only instrument capable of emulating both the tender nuances of vocal music and the thunderous range of the orchestra. When Wild plays, the pallid noodling that often passes for pianism these days vanishes: one hears the grand echoes of Paderewski, Rachmaninoff and Josef Hofmann...
...very least, Sunday's concert will offer a glimpse of the brilliance that put the U.S. on the pianists' map for the first time. Names such as Rubinstein, Sviatoslav Richter and Jan Paderewski had dominated the piano world since the turn of the century, Many such as Rubinstein and Rudolf Serkin, eventually made their homes in this country, but Cliburn was the first native-born American to become a definitive performer of major works. He could have been remembered for his legacy or virtuosity alone, but this tour represents his valuable commitment to bringing classical music into American eyes...
...named Van Cliburn. As the winner of the first Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Cliburn was front-page news, the cultural vanquisher of the Red Menace; in New York City he was given a ticker-tape parade. At the age of 23, Cliburn found himself the most famous pianist since Paderewski, his very name synonymous with piano playing. His future as a major figure in American music seemed secure...
Truman lived in Independence from age 6 to 21, the formative years. His circle was made up of well-to-do youngsters, and his intellectual companions in a superb high school were Mark Twain, Dickens, Plutarch, Tennyson and Shakespeare. He studied Chopin, Mendelssohn and Paderewski on the piano. His heroes included Cincinnatus, Scipio and Cyrus II the Great. He never played football, basketball or baseball. You might even say that in his place and time he was elitist...