Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thirteen years since the plastic LP era began, no classical record has exhibited the sales allure of such old champions as Enrico Caruso's 78-r.p.m. performance of Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci, which sold well over a million copies. But last week Pianist Van Cliburn joined Caruso and a handful of other 78-r.p.m. giants, became the first 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...
...star-packed jury, which included Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Rosalyn Tureck, Grant Johannesen, Jacob Lateiner and Eugene List, had four finalists to choose from-three of them Americans, one Argentine. Winner Anievas, Manhattan-born but of Spanish and Mexican extraction, played the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, and he proved to be a pianist in the big, romantic tradition of a Rubinstein or Cliburn. Occasionally guilty of mere pounding, he nevertheless had prodigious technique and the kind of rhapsodic, deeply felt musical vision that suggests a major career...
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...
...Elegant Dilettante. Until she was 20, Berlin-born Gabriele Münter thought that music would be her career; she had published a few songs, and she was an accomplished pianist. But she changed her mind, decided to become a painter, and soon headed for Munich, then and now a haven for the German avantgarde. In 1902 she started studying at a school called the Phalanx, an institution already intoxicated by the 20th century...
...Frontier bustle gives Romagna less time than ever for his other consuming interests: his wife, his two children, chess (he has 140 games going simultaneously by mail), model shipbuilding and music. An accomplished pianist who plays nothing but Bach. Romagna has mastered 672 Bach compositions, sometimes working three hours over a single measure. He practices anywhere, whenever time permits, often going to heroic lengths: he once got seasick practicing aboard Truman's yacht Williamsburg-which was tied up at the dock...