8x10 Photo w/Negative- Piano prodigy Van Cliburn

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8x10 Photo w/Negative- Piano prodigy Van Cliburn ATTENTION VALUED CUSTOMERS: We are pleased to announce a new product offering on all negatives. We recently installed a Fujifilm dye-sub printer in our lab capable of producing exceptional photographs with an archival rating of 100+ years. You may now purchase 8x10 prints of the negatives you win. Use the Paypal Link below the picture. Does the negative look bright or dark to you? Please be sure to read our FAQs and take note of the "before and after" examples. You are bidding on an 8x10 photograph INCLUDING the original 4x5" negative of pianist Van Cliburn in Chicago, August 6, 1959. Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (born July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. Van Cliburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and began taking piano lessons at the age of three from his mother, Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn. O'Bryan was taught by Arthur Friedheim,[1] a pupil of Franz Liszt. At six years old, Cliburn moved with his family to Kilgore, Texas, and at twelve he won a statewide piano competition which enabled him to debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. He entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and studied under Rosina Lh�vinne, who trained him in the tradition of the great Russian romantics. At age 20, Cliburn won the Leventritt Award, and made his Carnegie Hall debut. It was his recognition in Moscow that propelled Cliburn to international fame. The first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 was an event designed to demonstrate Soviet cultural superiority during the Cold War, on the heels of their technological victory with the Sputnik launch in October 1957. Cliburn's performance at the competition finale of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 earned him a standing ovation lasting eight minutes. When it was time to announce a winner, the judges were obliged to ask permission of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to give first prize to an American. "Is he the best?" Khrushchev asked. "Then give him the prize!" Cliburn returned home to a ticker-tape parade in New York City, the only time the honor has been accorded a classical musician. His cover story in Time proclaimed him "The Texan Who Conquered Russia." Upon returning to the U.S., Cliburn appeared in a Carnegie Hall concert with the Symphony of the Air, conducted by Kiril Kondrashin, who had led the Moscow Philharmonic in the prize-winning performances in Moscow. The performance of the Rachmaninoff third piano concerto at this concert was subsequently released by RCA Victor on both LP and CD. Cliburn was also invited by Steve Allen to play a solo during Allen's prime time NBC television program on April 14, 1958.[2] RCA Victor signed him to an exclusive contract, and his subsequent recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 became the first classical album to go platinum. It was the best-selling classical album in the world for more than a decade, eventually going triple-platinum. Cliburn won the 1958 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance for this recording. In 2004, this recording was re-mastered from the original studio analogue tapes, and released in the highest quality ever on high-resolution Super Audio CD. Other famous concerti Cliburn has recorded include the Schumann Piano Concerto, Grieg Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 and No. 5 (Emperor), and the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3. Part Number:dk053 Would you like to purchase a CD-ROM with a scan and/or an 8x10 photo of this image? Please enter this item's part number (listed just above this box next to the red arrow ) and then to purchase a CD-ROM containing a high-resolution scan of this image for only $6. Please see the full description of our scans on CD-ROMs below for more information... read more

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