by Paul E. Robinson

My first encounter with Tchaikovsky’s “Manfred“ Symphony was most likely Toscanini’s 1953 recording with the NBC Symphony; it is intense, exciting and almost life-changing in its range of emotion. The sound of the recording left a lot to be desired, of course, but for its time, this was a great performance.
Over the [...]

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by Paul E. Robinson

SUMMER FESTIVALS
Round Top Festival Institute, 2010
Never underestimate the dreams of a concert pianist – especially those of an adopted son of Texas!

Van Cliburn, you say? Yes, he had an impossible dream and realized it when he won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958, but there [...]

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