ARTS : Californian Survives Cliburn Cut
FT. WORTH — The field of 38 pianists competing for the gold in the eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was cut to 12 Wednesday night.
The 12 survivors are from nine countries and include three of the four competitors from the Soviet Union and two of the three from China. Of the 10 Americans in the field, only Kevin Kenner, 26, of Coronado, Calif., reached the semifinals.
The impact of glasnost (openness) in the music world is evident at the Cliburn with the appearance on the same jury panel of Russian-born Maxim Shostakovich, who sought political asylum in the United States in 1981, and Sergei Dorensky, Soviet pianist and music educator. Shostakovich is the son of composer Dimitri Shostakovich.
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