There is only one musician in American history who played a key diplomatic role, even unwittingly, in the Cold Warâ€"not once, but twice. That is the extraordinary legacy of the piano prodigy Van Cliburn, the lanky Texan with
There is only one musician in American history who played a key diplomatic role, even unwittingly, in the Cold Warâ€"not once, but twice. That is the extraordinary legacy of the piano prodigy Van Cliburn, the lanky Texan with the brillo hair, who at the
(CNN) -- Van Cliburn, the classical pianist honored by a New York ticker-tape parade for winning a major Moscow competition in 1958, died Wednesday after a battle with bone cancer, his publicist said. "He died peacefully in his Fort Worth, Texas, home
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Van Cliburn, the gifted pianist who electrified America by winning the first International Tchaikovsky Competition, in 1958, passed away this morning, at age seventy-eight.
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