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...this piece for twice his age. But what made the entire performance of "Pictures" truly great, as good as the golden Benno Moiseiwitsch recording, was his huge sound at "The Great Gate of Kiev." The audience was completely under his spell. And his choice of encore, the Schumann-Liszt "Widmung," sent everyone home smiling...
...delayed while a doctor took his blood pressure. Eventually he returned to the stage, sheepishly informing the audience of 14,000 that he felt unable to play the Rachmaninoff concerto, and so substituted a series of solo encores, including a Szymanowski etude, Liszt's arrangement of Schumann's song Widmung, Debussy's La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune and the Chopin C-sharp minor Scherzo. And then he was gone...
...thunderous applause between movements. After both concertos, as he rushed to embrace Conductor Kondrashin, he won shouting, standing ovations-and a deep-throated roar when he finally sat down to his encores : Rachmaninoff's Etude Tableau, the finale of Samuel Barber's Sonata and the Schumann-Liszt Widmung. The critics chimed in with the crowd. Sample: the New York Times's Ross Parmenter called Cliburn "a major talent," found that he "lived up to expectations...
...will be the principal numbers on the program. A few tickets for the performance are on hand and may be secured at the box office of Symphony Hall. The Complete program follows: Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres O Gladsome Light Davison Ecce Iam Noctis Chadwick The Harvard Glee Club Widmung Schumann Mondnacht Schumann Ave Maria Schubert Hark, Hark, the Lark! Schubert Miss Hempel Echo Song Lassus Far O'er the Bay Franck (Soprano Solo by Miss Hempel) Choeur des Chameliers, from "Rebecca" Franck City of Chow Bantock The Harvard Glee Club On Wings of Song Mendelssohn Virgin's Lullaby Reger...