Word: trebler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even got his first piano teacher into the act. Brought onstage by her son, Mrs. Rildia Bee Cliburn, 58, rippled off two warmly applauded pieces. The only clinker of the tour, in fact, was hit by Nikita Khrushchev. Ending a concert attended by the Soviet Premier, the Texas trebler dedicated Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor -'to Nikita Sergeevich." But Nikita, already hurrying backstage for a private dinner party with the toast of the town, was not in his box. Informed that Cliburn was still at the keyboard, he scrambled back to his place for the encores...
| 1 |