Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a few surprises in last weekend's full schedule, the Ivy League football standings begin to take shape. The eight teams have now jostled into position, but even so, any prediction on an eventual winner, or even a leader, by next Monday would be no better than a guess...
...odds held fast through the third contestant's rendering of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, and at evening's end the expected announcement was made: 24-year-old Pianist Malcolm Frager was the 2Oth-anniversary winner of the U.S.'s most prestigious instrumental competition, for the Leventritt Award...
Queen Elisabeth Concours, Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition (which brought previous Leventritt Winner Van Cliburn to fame). Before some of the keenest musical ears in the world,* 58 contestants (all pianists this year) pounded their way through nine days of preliminary competition. By the time they picked the three finalists, the weary panel of judges had listened to some 40 hours of piano playing...
...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...
...winner, appropriately enough, was Sherry, who won two of the Dodgers' games and saved the other two. The relief star made the difference in a World Series in which neither team had a complete game from its pitching staff...