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Letters: Family Dinners, Remembering Pianist Van Cliburn
We mourn the loss of one of America's finest classical musicians of all time, Van Cliburn. He won the coveted 1958 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow which was shocking because the US and Russia were at
"Van Cliburn was an international legend for over five decades, a fantastic humanitarian and a brilliant musician whose light will continue to shine through his extraordinary legacy," she said Wednesday. "He will be missed by all who knew and admired him
Denis Matsuev, who won the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998 at 23, the same age as Van Cliburn, has posted the subsequent tribute to the fantastic pianist on his Facebook page and authorised us to reprint it on Slipped Disc:
It was midnight in our New York apartment. My father was in the next room, dying of cancer, when abruptly I heard the magical sounds of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto coming from the living room. That's where I found the fantastic Van Cliburn, playing
Texas pianist Van Cliburn performs to a packed audience in the Fantastic Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in April 1958. Van Cliburn became an international cultural hero when he won a Cold War-era piano competition in the Soviet Union and then rocketed to
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