The blind Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, who took one of the two gold medals at the Cliburn, certainly impressed me with his mastery of major scores. But I kept wanting more color, more rise and fall of phrases; all of...
The word at the Cliburn was that Nobuyuki Tsujii, the blind gold medalist, finds music much easier to learn by ear than by Braille editions of scores. Here's a contrary view: "I read your review with great interest since I...
The music world has been all abuzz over Benjamin Ivry's Wall Street Journal piece on the Cliburn: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124458728669699751.html. I found it obnoxious, and inaccurate. Having covered every note of the 16-day contest, I note that Mr. Ivry nowhere says that...
Quite a surprise! Two gold medals: Nobuyuki Tsujii and Haochen Zhang. Silver medal: Yeol Eum Son No crystal award. This is the first time a blind competitor (Tsujii) has advanced beyond the Cliburn's preliminary round. And it's the first time...
We're waiting for announcement of winners, due any time now. In the meantime, here are reviews of the last three performances Sunday afternoon: Nobuyuki Tsujii (20, Japan) At the risk of exciting political-correctness furies, I keep wondering whether Tsujii would...
Tuesday night marked the halfway point in the four-day semifinal round of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Each of the 12 semifinalists is playing an hour-long solo recital and, at a separate time, a piano quintet with the Takács...
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