WQXR - bring back the great David Dubal!

A beatiful tribute to Van Cliburn. I miss David Dubal's interesting and delightful program that compared and illustrated different styles and techniques of playing the piano. WQXR is my station of choice for classical music and I wish you could include Dubal again.

Thank you, WQXR, for airing this appreciation. In response to some who have wondered where they can hear more from Mr. Dubal, he has a weekly program entitled "The Piano Matters", available via WWFM.org.

What a wonderful tribute to Maestro Cliburn and who better to this deliver this appreciation than David Dubal!

Thank you David Dubal. What a program, what music selection, what a tribute! Captivating! Nobody could have done it better. Van Cliburn is very pround and now can rest in peace.

What happened to David Dubal's program??? Why can't we have more of his knowledge and talent shared with us???

I never saw Van Cliburn but I saw Artur Rubinstein and Claudio Arrau as well as many other famous pianists. I understand that Van Cliburn was an eccentric with big hands who mainly played Russian music in Russia. Anyway, listening his recordings tells me that many current pianists play as well or better than him. Evgeny Kissin probably plays piano better than Van Cliburn did. All the fame of Cliburn is that he was admired in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Another wonderful example of exceptional programming from David Dubal. No one else could have done justice to the memory and the music of the great Van Cliburn.

I loved the comments and the music. Thank you.
There is one observation however, that i would like to make here.
In the Soviet Union it was possible to award the first prize of a coveted national competition to an American. In the Soviet Bloc -- American films, books, culture were a part and parcel of life.

In the United States by contrast, it would have been inconceivable for a Soviet Artist -- unless he was a dissident or a political refugee -- and thus politically approved by this establishment-- to gain any acknowledgement or any mass aproval, in this society.
The people in the West, for all its self proclaimed 'freedom', were never free to admire anyone from the Soviet Bloc unless he or she was a dissident. Van Cliburn became a media 'Star' in the U.S. not because he was such a talent (as he indeed was), but because of the propaganda value to the 'Gate-Keepers' of this society which have always made sure that only the aproved message gets through in the U.S. It is just done so much more subtly and insidiously.

No one ever mentions this,

I just heard the magnificent tribute to Van Cliburn by the great David Dubal. The programing of the hour was perfection . Here is an example of what radio can be. DAVID DUBAL in my opinion is the finest Programer of classical music in the history of broadcasting. I have been following him with his velvet voice for many years. I thank WQXR for bringing him back to us. May Mr. Cliburn rest in peace.

Another great broadcast with David Dubal. He is wonderful to listen to. He should be on WQXR more often.

Stirring stuff. Thanks for letting the music speak so wonderfully for the man.

M. Weinstein:

The last piece played, after the final credits, was the finale of the Rach 3, as listed above in the final listing.

Go to about 11:30 in this Youtube of Rach playing the Rach 3.

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3 Op.30, III.Finale - alla breve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYhlU6sAOAw

'An appreciation of an individual's art' - a loose quote of Mr. Dubal in this podcast.

No one on WQXR or anywhere that I've listened in on comes close to Mr. Dubal in enlightening the qualities that make for virtuosity in the piano. It's a shame that someone has to die to get that quality here.

Thanks to Mr. Cliburn for the beauty he's 'shown' us that we're fortunate enough to still be able to enjoy - and to Mr. Dubal for giving us the details of the transient clockwork jewels that are fundamental to that timeless beauty.

P.S. Could this podcast have been buried at the site any more completely? I don't think so. Good effort there.

Kudos to DAVID DUBAL whose program illustrated the technical and interpretive talents of VAN CLIBURN. All the selections listed above were performed with a relish, devoid of self serving lacrymosity, but with genuine deep-felt empathetic emotional accord. Thank you DAVID DUBAL for your fitting tribute to a real MENSCH, VAN CLIBURN !!!

I loved the program; which was the piece played after the last listed Rachmaninoff, the piece which started around 7:56 or 7:57 pm?

What a wonderful hour hosted by David Duval...is it going to be repeated and why don't we have more of David Duval? - he is so knowledgeable and such a pleasure so listen to. His "appreciation of Van Cliburn" was amazing.
Thank you!

ALL THE WORLD ADMIRED VAN CLIBURN FOR HIS GREAT TALENT AND HIS WARM OUTGOING PERSONA. A JUILLIARD ALUM MYSELF, BEFORE HIS LANDMARK TSCHAIKOWSKY TRIUMPH, I, WITH HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, WATCHED HIS TICKER TAPE PARADE AND MY MOM , BROTHER DR. BEN LANE AND I ATTENDED HIS CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT AND SPOKE WITH HIM AFTERWARDS BACKSTAGE. THAT TALL , L ANKY HANDSOME TEXAN DID MORE FOR A FRIENDLIER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RUSSIANS THAN ANY POLITICIAN. THE COLD WAR THREATENING PEACE WAS MADE LESS MENACING. R.I.P. VAN CLIBURN. THE WORLD MOURNS YOUR PASSING.
WQXR HAS PLAYED EARLIER, YESTERDAY, HIS RECORDING OF HIS WINNING TSCHAIKOVSKY PRIZE-WINNING ENTRY.
IT WAS REMINDFUL TO ME OF HIS PERFORMANCE AT CARNEGIE HALL. SO POWERFUL, SO PRECISE , SO IMPASSIONED, SO EXCITING AS FEW PERFORMANCES IN ANY CATEGORY EVER ACHIEVE. UNICO, ICONIC VAN CLIBURN WILL REMAIN A HERO TO THOSE WHO RESPECT GREAT TALENT APPLIED TO AFFECT POSITIVELY THE PUBLIC'S INTERACTION WSITH EACH OTHER.