Word: piano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More combat than competition, music tournaments have grown in size and importance to the point where there is a contest among contests, each one claiming to be more prestigious than the next. But when it comes to money, none can match Fort Worth's Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Piano Competition, which offers a top prize of $10,000 and a bundle of fringe benefits that includes everything but an oil well...
Worth the Agony. In the finals, performed last week with the Fort Worth symphony in the Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium, each contestant played the first movement of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto and one of two Beethoven concertos. A computer tallied the scores of the international panel of 17 judges, but the announcement of the results had to be delayed while contest officials frantically searched for Radu Lupu. He was found at last, wandering the hallways, gulping air in an effort to pacify his queasy stomach. But the agony had been worth enduring: minutes later he was named...
Lupu, a-student at the Moscow Conservatory, does not have to worry about competitions for a while. In addition to his first-prize money, he won a $400 gold watch for the best performance of Structure for Piano, composed for the contest by Willard Straight, $300 for the best interpretation of Copland's Piano Sonata, the opportunity to play with twelve major U.S. orchestras, a three-month tour of Europe, a debut recital at Carnegie Hall in April, and a contract for further concertizing in the U.S., Canada and Latin America...
...born in Budapest, became a prodigy at six, taught adult students at eight, became a full-fledged soloist at 20. In 1940, while on a concert tour of Java, she was stranded by the war and eventually placed in a Japanese forced-labor camp. Denied access to a piano for most of the three years of her imprisonment, she "continued to play organically," deciding that "either I go to the dogs or I make the experience the treasure fund of my life by falling back wholly on that which is within myself...
...daily rations of a syrupy mixture of ground-up acorns, figs and raw oatmeal. Last year she visited Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer in Gabon, played Mozart and Bach for him every night for five weeks; he spent his last days listening to her recording of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. In February, she will become an artist in residence at Texas Christian University...