Breaking: Major US piano competition shuts down

Breaking: Major US piano competition shuts down

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norman lebrecht

May 23, 2017

Janelle Gelfand has just reported the death, after 60 years, of the Cincinnati World Piano Competition.

The organisers were unable to raise $300,000 to keep it running.

It was America’s longest-running annual piano competition.

At times it was so ferocious that one pianist played til her hands bled (below).

Read more here.

 

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