Michael Hawley, Pianist: Van Cliburn 2000 piano solo live recordings and notes. van cliburn amateur competition. fort worth, texas The Italian megapianist, Feruccio Busoni, made this faithful arrangement around 1899. http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/music/VanCliburn2000
Extractions: These are the live recordings of my performances in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, held in Fort Worth, Texas (June 2000). This unusual event was a highlight of my year. It's for pianists who are over 35 and out of practice: no professionals allowed. Contestants play purely for the love of it. The pianists who come, about a hundred of them, are from dozens of countries and all walks of life: the chemist from Japan; the Brazilian ambassador; the blackjack dealer from Reno; the autoglass repairman, surgeon, lawyer, numismatist, masseur, assistant manager from Starbuck's, flight attendant... What a dazzling array of human interest. On stage, settling down at the gleaming Steinway concert grand, they glowed like 500-watt bulbs, and the audience was on the edge of their seats, hanging on every note. Music for the pure, unalloyed joy of it. Great stuff. I've always felt that part of the fun in being a true amateur comes from the mistakes, and the excitement in not knowing how well you might do. Professionalism (suggesting perfectionism) kills that spontaneity. Anyway, you might as well learn to love those pesky mistakes. Even Franz Liszt hit a few clams from time to time, but he didn't call them mistakes: he called them uninvited guests, and always tried to make them feel right at home. Or Rubinstein, who used to say: Well, sometimes I
The Era Of Van Cliburn: Musical Phenomenon In The Midst Of Cold War By Betty Bla Autumn 1995 (3.3) The Era of van cliburn Musical Phenomenon in the Midst of Cold War by Betty Blair van cliburn, 25, arrives in Baku for Concert. Courtesy Azerbaijan National Archives. Enter 23year-old van cliburn, child prodigy pianist from Kilgore, Texas. cliburn was quite oblivious to the intrigues http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/33_folder/33_articles/33_vanclibur
Extractions: Musical Phenomenon in the Midst of Cold War by Betty Blair Van Cliburn, 25, arrives in Baku for Concert. June 1960. Courtesy: Azerbaijan National Archives. It was 35 years ago, on June 28, 1960, that a tall, lanky, youthful Texan gave a singular piano performance in Baku's Philharmonia. Two years earlier, he had caused a sensation both in the USSR and the U.S. by winning the coveted First Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow. This past June, Nina Fischeva, Director of the Photo and Cinema Materials at Azerbaijan's National State Archives, along with Fuad Akhundov, author of our series, "Legacy of the Oil Barons", prepared an album of Van Cliburn's visit to Baku from photos they found buried in the archive's files. Cliburn's birthday was coming up on July 12th; he would be 61. Would it be possible to find him and pass on a little album as a gesture of the admiration that Azerbaijanis still hold for him? Nina had attended Van Cliburn's concert; Fuad had not yet been born although his mother had been one of the lucky few who managed to find a ticket.
Extractions: breathtaking [Mr. Ryan has] exceptional tone and an ongoing sense of line Classical New Jersey The Ridgewood News wrote that Mr. Ryan awed the crowd with his sensitive touch and technical skill Mr. Ryan received the Audience Award, the Press Award, and shared the First Prize at the 2001 Concours Les Grands Amateurs de Piano in Paris. Second prize at the 2000 Van Cliburn Foundations International Competition for Outstanding Amateurs First prize at the 2000 Northeastern Classical Piano Competition for Amateurs Home Page
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Extractions: Peter Rosen has produced and directed over 100 full-length films and televisi on programs which have been distributed world-wide and have won awards at the major film festivals. He has worked directly with some of the most important figures in the arts such as Leonard Bernstein, YoYo Ma, Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Stephen Sondheim, Alexander Godunov, Midori, Leonard Slatkin, Martha Graham, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Van Cliburn, Claudio Arrau and I. M. Pei. He won the prestigious Directors Guild of America Award in 1990 for his production "Here to Make Music: The Eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition." This Award is given to only one documentary program a year. The show also won a prime-time Emmy Award in 1990, and was called "enriching and inspiring" by the
Metroactive Music | Van Cliburn eccentricities. pianist van cliburn's early triumph in Moscow has madehim a rare, bankable star of classical music. By Philip Collins. http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/09.19.96/classical-9638.html
Extractions: Maestro of Contradictions: Van Cliburn's long career embraces many eccentricities. Pianist Van Cliburn's early triumph in Moscow has made him a rare, bankable star of classical music By Philip Collins H E BEGAN PIANO lessons at age 3. Twenty years later, he was the subject of a ticker-tape parade in New York, the only one ever held in honor of a classical musicianafter all, nobody had expected a 23-year-old American student from Juilliard to steal the gold at the First International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and with a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, no less. From that moment on, Van Cliburn would be recognized as one of America's most bankable musical superstars. Deservedly so, for he had bested the Russians at their own game during the peak of Cold War hostilities; he was even nicknamed "the American Sputnik." Cliburn and Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 have been inseparable ever since. The work grew to be pianist's trademark, and his 1958 recording of it was the first classical record to go platinum. Two decades later, Cliburn would again shock the music world by announcing his withdrawal from performing. His sabbatical surprised many, but Cliburn's reputation for eccentricities had created a popular mystique that thrived on contradictions (excepting his repertoire, which was remarkably staid). Here was an artist who neither smoked nor drank, and routinely began his recitals with "The Star Spangled Banner" (one of America's greatest classical works, he has said, although the music is actually English in origin). Furthermore, he wrote poetry and was labeled "vegetarian" (erroneously so) because of his finicky dietary requirements on tour. So it wasn't completely unprecedented that Cliburnlike the late Glenn Gouldwithdrew from concertizing.
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Metroactive Music | Van Cliburn Legendary pianist can't live up to his own famous 'First the stage, waving, applauding,holding out flowers and open hands to legendary keyboardist van cliburn. http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/09.26.96/classical-9639.html
Extractions: Music Index Metro Metroactive Central Archives Cliburn Clunker Legendary pianist can't live up to his own famous 'First' By Philip Collins F ANS LINED the front of the stage, waving, applauding, holding out flowers and open hands to legendary keyboardist Van Cliburn. It was the kind of frenzied response that is reserved for superstarsas opposed to exalted music-making, of which there was little Saturday night at San Jose Symphony's gala concert featuring the celebrated virtuoso in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. How many times Cliburn has played Tchaikovsky's "First" is a matter for his chroniclers to determine, but figure it easily in the upper hundreds, if not thousands. Considering that Cliburn's 1958 recording of the work was the first classical album to ever go platinum, it's understandable that he still feels obliged to perform it so regularly. Listening to Cliburn's luminous, vintage recording of the Tchaikovsky prior to Saturday's concert could only lead to disappointment. Here was one of the most formidable undertakings that the concerto literature has to offer, and the American pianist who tamed it so incomparably 38 years ago. It was a standard that no artist could relish living up to, and Cliburn's efforts to outshine his own shadow clearly taxed his abilities. Though some difference between then and now may stem from Cliburn's evolving take on the piece, his subtleties of reinterpretation were eclipsed by technical inconsistencies and an overall dampening of nuance.
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Extractions: ALLENDALE Grand Valley State University will wrap up its Van Cliburn Concert Series with a final concert featuring Russian pianist Katia Skanavi on Tuesday, Feb. 2. The concert begins at 8 p.m. in the Louis Armstrong Theatre. Skanavi, who was named a finalist at the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, follows the competition's gold, silver and bronze medalists, who all performed at Grand Valley between October of 1997 and October of 1998. In addition to the Van Cliburn competition honors, Skanavi also received the Steven De Groote Memorial award for her performance with the Tokyo String Quartet in the semifinal round. Skavani has performed concerts in Japan and Europe, where she has recently appeared with the Sinfonia Varsovia and with the Moscow Soloists. During the 1997-98 season, Skanavi performed with the Moscow Philharmonic and the National Orchestra of Santo Domingo. Concert tickets are $15 for GVSU faculty, $20 for music professionals and $35 for general admission. Tickets may be reserved by calling 1-800-435-9539.
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Southern Methodist University Reporters may contact Meredith Dickenson SMU News and Information May 11, 2001 pianist van cliburn TO RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREE FROM SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY confer an honorary Doctor of Arts degree upon pianist van cliburn during its 86th annual commencement ceremony at 930 a.m. http://www2.smu.edu/newsinfo/releases/00328.html
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LIED CENTER TO HOST VAN CLIBURN COMPETITION GOLD MEDAL WINNER, LIED CENTER TO HOST van cliburn COMPETITION GOLD MEDAL WINNER, pianist OLGA KERN Lincoln, Nebraska March 22, 2002 On June 10, 2001, Olga Kern became the first http://www.unl.edu/lied/Press2002/OlgaKern.pdf
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Extractions: Van Cliburn By Sharon Makokian Acorn Staff Writer Legendary pianist Van Cliburn will kick off the 2001/2002 season of the New West Symphony as the guest artist for the organizations opening night gala on Sat., Sept. 22 at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. New West Symphony Music Director Boris Brott will conduct an all-Tchaikovsky program, which will include the fantasy/overture from "Romeo and Juliet;" Suite No. 1 from "Swan Lake," Opus 20a; and Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Opus 23. Cliburn will be the featured soloist. Texas native Cliburn became an instant hero and household name when he stunned the music world in 1958 by capturing the Gold Medal at the First International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Coming at the height of the Cold War, his victory was even more significant considering the political atmosphere at the time.
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