Mr. Isacoff is at work on a book about the 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition.
Cast: Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Julie Fain Lawrence, Emily Kinney, Laila Robins.
Determined not to miss out next time, he prepared to strike the gong softly in a Tchaikovsky piece.
After winning the Tchaikovsky Prize in Moscow aged 23, Cliburn received international recognition.
Hoffman starts this romantic musical journey with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.
Not that there's anything wrong with classical music, but Clark helped Beethoven roll over and tell Tchaikovsky the news.
On winning the Tchaikovsky competition in 1990, Boris Berezovsky left Russia after only three years of study at the conservatory.
Another highlight of the Tchaikovsky celebration will be the New York recital debut of Russian soprano Anna Netreboko on October 26.
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The parents of Beethoven and Mozart were musicians, while Chopin, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky had music-lovers, though not musicians, as their parents.
What a sight Nathaniel is, this lean African-American man lugging his cart full of instruments through hell, dreaming of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
Ensemble ACJW is also performing in a chamber music concert on October 25 that will include works by Tchaikovsky, Glinka and Arensky.
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The classical pianist Van Cliburn's Cold War performance when he won the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition at 23 also was selected.
Van Cliburn's Cold War piano performance in Moscow when he won the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition at 23 also was selected.
If Tchaikovsky is the big name of the season, some notable dancers also did their best to establish names of their own.
WSJ: Restless Princess | The Sleeping Beauty | New York City Ballet | By Robert Greskovic
Sandwiched between the first and last two-week concentrations of Tchaikovsky-related repertory was a wider mix of dances, many set to 20th-century music.
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Several speakers referred to what made Cliburn famous: winning the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958, when he was just 23.
" There will be new-to-the-Met productions of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin, " Nico Muhly's "Two Boys" and Verdi's "Falstaff' that already have debuted in Europe.
For the current run, which concludes Sunday, it is the music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arguably the most familiar of all ballet composers.
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This week marked the beginning of the fall anniversary celebration, focusing on Tchaikovsky and New York City at the turn of the 20th century.
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This is the city of Balanchine and Baryshnikov, Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky.
Recently scholars have shown increased boldness in turning posthumous fragments into, for instance, performable tenth symphonies by Schubert and Beethoven and a seventh by Tchaikovsky.
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He says he was trying to remember a Tchaikovsky piece he once knew quite well, but now it is as elusive as the meaning of a dream.
"That Van Cliburn won the first ever Tchaikovsky Prize in Moscow in 1958, the middle of the Cold War, is testimony to his prodigious gifts, " he said.
First shown in 1991 with Tchaikovsky's famous 1890 score and Balanchine's richly figured 1981 "Garland Dance, " the production features scenic designs by David Mitchell and costumes by Patricia Zipprodt.
WSJ: Restless Princess | The Sleeping Beauty | New York City Ballet | By Robert Greskovic
Gergiev conducted at the opening, which included performances from Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, who sang Wagner, and the supreme Russian ballerina of modern times, Ulyana Lopatkina, who performed to Tchaikovsky.
During the Cold War, relations between the US and Soviet Union were eased when Cliburn won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958, at the age of 23.
Soon enough the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra took up Tchaikovsky and Sviridov, and in the safe cocoon of London the glitteratski smoked, spoke freely and loudly--and downed shot after shot of vodka.
She made her Carnegie Hall debut a few months later in a passionate version of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, captivating audiences and dividing critics with her eccentric, heartfelt interpretations and expressive facial and physical gestures.
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"Dead Souls, " meanwhile, is among that small number of uncompleted masterpieces that includes Tchaikovsky's Unfinished Symphony, and Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities, " but with the important qualification that Nikolai Gogol's great work is all the better for remaining unfinished.
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