Four pieces documenting Cliburn’s emergence as an international celebrity following his victory at the first Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Includes: Van Cliburn (New York: Lou Dunetz and Paul Lovett, [1958]), an illustrated promotional brochure designed by George Tscherny, square 4to, 11 x 11 inches, pictorial wrappers, unpaginated, with photographs, press tributes, and Cliburn’s April 17, 1958 dispatch from Moscow, reprinted with permission of the United Press. Tscherny’s design combines a dramatically cropped photographic cover, vertical titling, angled newspaper headlines, and a credits page whose alternating black-and-white bands suggest a piano keyboard. Together with the May and June 1958 issues of Steinway News, each 4 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, featuring Cliburn’s victory and subsequent New York reception; and the Orchestral Society of Westchester program for October 26, 1958, Scarsdale High School Auditorium, with Simon Asen conducting and Cliburn performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. The latter printed on rust-orange stock, folded in thirds to six panels, 6 x 9 inches closed. All acquired from the same source. Brochure toned, with light bumping and rubbing two extremities; newsletters lightly toned and folded, with scattered spotting and localized staining to June; concert program with a small tear to back page. Good to very good overall. Price is for the group of four items.
Four pieces documenting Cliburn’s emergence as an international celebrity following his victory at the first Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Includes: Van Cliburn (New York: Lou Dunetz and Paul Lovett, [1958]), an illustrated promotional brochure designed by George Tscherny, square 4to, 11 x 11 inches, pictorial wrappers, unpaginated, with photographs, press tributes, and Cliburn’s April 17, 1958 dispatch from Moscow, reprinted with permission of the United Press. Tscherny’s design combines a dramatically cropped photographic cover, vertical titling, angled newspaper headlines, and a credits page whose alternating black-and-white bands suggest a piano keyboard. Together with the May and June 1958 issues of Steinway News, each 4 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, featuring Cliburn’s victory and subsequent New York reception; and the Orchestral Society of Westchester program for October 26, 1958, Scarsdale High School Auditorium, with Simon Asen conducting and Cliburn performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. The latter printed on rust-orange stock, folded in thirds to six panels, 6 x 9 inches closed. All acquired from the same source. Brochure toned, with light bumping and rubbing two extremities; newsletters lightly toned and folded, with scattered spotting and localized staining to June; concert program with a small tear to back page. Good to very good overall. Price is for the group of four items.
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