Word: concourse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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-Considered hors concours are Leigh and Mary Block, whose gilt-edged collection, valued at $10 million, focuses conservatively on impressionists and postimpressionists. It is currently touring U.S. museums.
Van Gogh would have missed out on a rating of the top ten of his time (at the time of his death he was virtually unknown), but cultural polls have their points. Every five years, France's Connaissance des Arts polls connoisseurs with the question, "Who are the ten...
All at Sea. The Dunn Foundation provided six equal prizes of $5,000 each. A few artists, such as Picasso and De Kooning, were by their own request hors concours. After that, the judges-British Art Expert Douglas Cooper, Andrew Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, and Peter...
Ozawa, 27, is already a conductor honored in many lands, but not in his own. He left Japan four years ago, successively won first place (and 100,000 francs) in the Concours International de Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre, the Koussevitzky Memorial Scholarship for the best young conductor at Tanglewood...
Sadly, this summer's brass fanfare may be the last. Scholtes has his enemies, who feel that he has won more glory than is proper for a $220-a-month clerk. When he was invited to Salzburg last year and introduced as "beloved Herr Doktor Scholtes," his fellow townsmen...