About 1400 people are attending a memorial service in Texas for the celebrated classical pianist Van Cliburn (CLY'-burn), who died last week after battling cancer.
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-old Texan, rail thin and tousle-haired, with great, gangly fingers that grew
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
Regarding the Feb. 28 front-page obituary “Texas pianist shot to fame with his unlikely Cold War coupâ€: What a fitting tribute to the great pianist Van Cliburn. I had the pleasure of attending one of his concerts in the Kennedy Center. It was in 1976
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 phenomenally successful and lucrative career, though a short-lived one, died on
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