It may be hard to believe today, but in 1958, a piano concert was as big on the international news pages of the world as the 1980 U.S.-Russia Olympic semifinal hockey game would be decades later. That ...
In the latest expression of the anti-Russian campaign following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine two months ago, the world-famous International Tchaikovsky Competition has been expelled by the World ...
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twenty year-old Daniil Trifonov, a Russian second-year undergraduate at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), and student of Sergei Babayan, has won first prize in the ...
The 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which takes place every four years, begins later this spring in Fort Worth, Texas. For the past six weeks, judges have been traveling the world to ...
“Ah swear to goodness, ah just can’t believe all this is happenin’ to li’l ole Van Cliburn from the piney woods of East Texas!” Most everybody agreed with Van. Through a rare combination of sheer ...
Fifty years ago, Daniel Pollack was a graduate student in piano studies at Vienna's prestigious Hochschule für Musik. One day, he noticed a sign on the bulletin board about a piano competition in ...
Van Cliburn has died. He made history when America was scared to death of the Russians, specifically because they had the long-range missile technology to send a satellite into space — 1957’s ...
"All-Tchaikovsky" does not refer simply to the music the Signature Symphony will be performing at its first Williams Signature Classics concert of the season. Tchaikovsky will be just about everywhere ...