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2024-04-08 14:26:23
Sol Hurok, 2024
[…] Anderson when working with black singers was not a popular undertaking; he helped to organize Anderson’s famous concert at the Lincoln Memorial, which was broadcast nationwide and made her a household name. Among Hurok’s longest associations were those with Arthur Rubinstein and Isaac Stern. The list of Hurok’s clients read as Who-is-Who in American Music: he worked with the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, violinists Nathan Milstein and Efrem Zimbalist, and later represented the younger stars, Van Cliburn, Jacqueline du Pré, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman. For many years Hurok tried to bring Soviet artists to America. It became possible only after Stalin’s death. The pianists Emil Gilels and violinist David Oistrakh came first, in 1955, then, later, such luminaries as Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leonid Kogan and Mstislav Rostropovich. Hurok also represented the singers Galina Vishnevskaya and Irina Arkhipova and conductors Kiril Kondrashin and Yevgeny Svetlanov. Some of Hurok’s greatest coups […]
2024-03-22 12:00:00
The 2022 Cliburn finalist has been awarded a 2024 Avery Fisher career grant
2024-03-05 23:09:00
In June 2022, when Yunchan Lim took the gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competitio
2024-02-12 08:25:07
Nikita Mndoyants first came to my attention as a finalist in the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition, and subsequently as the 2016 Cleveland International Competition’s first prize winner. I annotated his solo debut CD for Steinway & Sons, which contained a particularly imaginative rendition of Prokofiev’s Sarcasms. The pianist continues to imbue Prokofiev’s music with both […]
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