. "Entered from a New York Times calendar listing. No winner chosen. Mark Kaplan was the highest ranking competitior in the competition and was honored with an award of Special Distinction (this information came from Kaplan's bio in the Carnegie Hall program of 4/11/1978)." . . "1973-05-15T12:00:00"^^ . . "competition" . "Leventritt Foundation International Violin Competition Finals" . .