Word: concourse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paleolithic & Neolithic. As the British Vintage Sports Car Club and the British Travel Association had planned it, last week's rally was to be a leisurely tour. Ten oldtimers from each country-five paleolithic cars (1904 to 1914) and five neolithic cars (1920 to 1930)-would take the Great...
The nearest thing to a Wimbledon tournament for young musicians is Belgium's International Concours. This year the aim of the contest was to crown the best young (15-30) pianist in the world, and by last week a field of 71 hopefuls from all over the world-Russia...
By Concours custom, each of the twelve finalists was expected to perform with the Belgian National Orchestra 1) a new composition none had ever played before, and 2) a well-practiced concerto of his own choice. This year's new composition, a fiercely atonal concerto by Belgian Composer Raymond...
Oistrakh's parents (his father was a gifted amateur violinist, his mother a professional singer) started their boy off young. At five, David was studying violin in Odessa, his home town. He moved to Moscow in 1928 after a successful concert tour, continued to build his reputation in Russia...
For weeks before the running, the odds were on the Russians to sweep the field in Belgium's first postwar revival of its violin international-the Concours Eugène Ysaÿe, this year renamed for Queen Mother Elisabeth. There was a notable precedent : brilliant Soviet Violinist David...