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...Cliburn is not only a major pianist of the younger generation, but a culture hero as well-right up there with the Beatles and Marshall McLuhan...
Sensing the Currents. Now RCA has released Cliburn's first recording in two years: Chopin's Second and Third Piano Sonatas. Why so long between disks? The reason is that Cliburn has been growing increasingly finicky about his work in the studio. "During these two years," he says, "I've probably cut another half-dozen pieces that I've rejected. To me, a record is so permanent that I must be very careful of what I release...
...wooded bluff overlooking the Cuyahoga River, the 4,600-seat festival pavilion opens July 19 with Beethoven's The Consecration of the House Overture and Ninth Symphony led by Music Director George Szell. Guest Conductors William Steinberg, Charles Munch and Karel Ançerl, Pianists Van Cliburn, Byron Janis and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Tenor Jon Vickers will appear at the weekly Friday-Saturday-Sunday concerts. Other highlights: performances by the New York City Ballet, a pop series including Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Folk Singers Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie. Trumpeter Louis Armstrong will close the festivities on Labor...
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY MUSIC FESTIVAL, Ambler, Pa. During a six-week festival of music and dance, the emphasis will he on chamber music, solo recitals, and the smaller-scale symphonic works of the masters-from Beethoven to Bartók performed by such artists as the ubiquitous Van Cliburn, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor Richard Tucker, Cellist Leonard Rose, Clarinetist Benny Goodman, and Anshel Brusilow's Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Ballet will take over the Greek-style amphitheater on four consecutive Thursdays beginning June 27. Ella Fitzgerald (July 12, 13) and Duke Ellington (July 25) will add a touch...
Norman Vincent Peale occasionally watches Lucy, Bonanza and The F.B.I. Van Cliburn often unwinds between practice sessions or before performances with afternoon soap operas. So does Artur Rubinstein, who on request can unravel the complicated plots of a half dozen of the soapers. ("Those organs!" says Rubinstein, holding his nose and unmistakably imitating their quavering tone.) William Buckley says that he finds no time for TV, but Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission chairman who described TV as a "vast wasteland," still watches fairly regularly. Among his favorites: Get Smart...