Cliburn also used his skill and fame to help other young musicians through the Van Cliburn International Music Competition, held every four years.
Four men in monster masks and bizarre costumes playing heavy metal and winning Europe's biggest pop music competition might seem bizarre, but it happened in 2006.
Festivities for this first celebration were rounded off with a concert given by the young prize-winners of the Palestine National Music Competition, organized by the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music.
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The group, who last year reached the semi-finals of Sky's Must Be the Music competition, thanked their travelling fans for helping them win both their genre category and the overall prize.
Praised for introducing Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff to a younger generation when he became well-known, Cliburn also helped nurture the careers of younger musicians through the Van Cliburn International Music Competition, which was set up in 1962 and occurs once every four years.
Online and, increasingly, on mobile phones, there is fierce competition from music-streaming services such as Last.fm, Spotify and we7, which allow users to assemble their own playlists.
Godmothers offers some nightlife competition with live music throughout the week and a vintage nautical theme.
Despite competition from digital music networks such as The Box and Kiss, in the UK it boasts a 43% year-on-year increase in ratings and accounts for three-fifths of all music channel viewers.
Root Music could soon face intense competition.
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HMV's like-for-like sales were down 12.1%, as it continues to be hit by increased competition, particularly from music downloads.
The influence of mass media and competition from contemporary popular music have contributed to undervaluing this Samba in the eyes of the young.
HBO's "Mildred Pierce" won five Emmys in the miniseries competition, including casting, music and art direction honors handed out last week.
Passionato will face competition from established online classical music stores such as eclassical as well as from large download stores such as iTunes which have some classical works in their catalogues.
Like sellers of books, films and music, Game has been hurt by competition from online retailers such as Amazon as well as from Britain's cut-throat supermarkets, which have started stocking a small selection of the bestselling video games, often using them as loss-leaders to entice shoppers.
MySpace thinks it has the upper hand in this competition thanks to its substantially larger music catalog.
Speaking of Spotify, the music streaming service will soon have some more competition.
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Rhapsody, which was spun out from RealNetworks in early 2010, faces competition from a growing number of online music sites, including Spotify, Pandora, Apple iTunes and others.
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If Congress acts, consumers can benefit from increased competition and innovation in the market for digital music.
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Tim Davie, head of audio and music at the BBC, points out that Radioplayer sharpens competition not only over programming but also over search data and algorithms.
Would that put Warner in competition with the soon-to-launch MySpace Music--in which it owns a stake?
If they come to view them as competition for CD sales and digital downloads, the music-streaming sites are in trouble.
Apple, perhaps the guiltiest of all the gardeners, is not satisfied with having disrupted all of its competition and taken over various markets, particularly digital music distribution, where arguably it holds dominant firm status.
He will spin discs alongside the winner of the House the House DJ competition, an event hosted by MP and former music executive Mike Weatherley which seeks to give a platform to new young talent.
Publishers have argued privately that the agency model helped save the book industry from suffering the same fate as the music recording industry did at the hands of Apple and preserved competition by allowing several booksellers to thrive.
Mancuso, a music lover who can be seen wearing headphones at nearly every competition, broke into the World Cup of Skiing at age 15, and has since won more Olympic medals than any other U.S. female in downhill events.
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The just-unveiled Media Player 7 handles most audio and video formats, is an MP3 jukebox for recording, organizing and playing music, and has enough advanced features to take on the competition - including a 10-band equalizer, a psychedelic light-show that pulses in time to the music, and appearance-changing "skins" that turn the gray box into things like the big green head pictured.
The singer admits she was taken aback when many on the Internet protested that her previous music-industry experience put her at an unfair advantage in the competition.
Isabella Rossellini, sporting a wig that appears to have been woven from cold egg noodles, plays Lady Port-Huntly, rich but legless, who runs a competition to discover, as the title suggests, the saddest music in the world.
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