I’m back in St. Louis (there’s a production opening tonight at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, www.experienceopera.org , Mozart’s Il Re Pastore, and I’m covering it), which means that I’m watching the final round in the same way as millions of…
FORT WORTH - Saturday’s marathon at the Cliburn piano competition finals continued at 7:30 with Di Wu of China, who opened with J.S. Bach’s Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910. She gave it a lovely, light, accurate and transporting account,…
FORT WORTH The finals of the 13th International Van Cliburn Piano Competition are like a marathon; each of the six finalists performs three major programs in five days. There’s a 50-minute recital, a concerto with chamber orchestra, and a concerto with…
FORT WORTH - From an interesting and entertaining talk on the stage of Bass Hall, by conductor James Conlon, who’s leading the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in the concerto rounds of the Cliburn piano competition:
“Our society puts most of its…
FORT WORTH - At the conclusion of Friday night’s concert, the halfway point for the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, there were no obvious winners-in -waiting.
As is the case with each of the six concerts in the final round,…
FORT WORTH - With the second of six final round concerts completed, those of us who came in late (by this competition’s standards) have finally heard all six finalists.
The clear audience favorite is 20-year-old Nobuyuki Tsujii of Japan: all the…
FORT WORTH – Every four years in late May and early June, this self-proclaimed “cowtown” becomes the center of the classical piano universe. Van Cliburn, who rocked the world with his Cold War-era win of the first International Tchaikovsky Competition…
