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George W. Bush remembers Van Cliburn
There is only one musician in American description who played a key diplomatic role, even unwittingly, in the Cold War–not once, but twice. That is the extraordinary legacy of the piano prodigy Van Cliburn, the lanky Texan with
Van Cliburn, America's legendary superstar classical pianist, died Wednesday at 78. Chicagoans, and the world of music lovers everywhere, mourn the loss of that icon. He dazzled the world by winning the gold medal at the first Tchaikovsky piano
Van Cliburn, the American pianist whose first-place award at the 1958 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow made him an overnight sensation and propelled him to a astonishingly successful and lucrative career, though a small-lived one, died on
Van Cliburn thawed out the Cold War. He went to Moscow in 1958 for the first International Tchaikovsky Competition. When he sat down to play, Russians saw a tall, 23-year-ancient Texan, rail thin and tousle-haired, with fantastic, gangly fingers that grew
Thank you, Patricia Dane Rogers, for allotment the wonderful tale of your father's passing [“5 decades ago, Cliburn played a glorious coda to a father's life,” Style, March 1]. Seems like the definition of ecstasy, Van Cliburn “playing you off” from
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