Letters: Family Dinners, Remembering Pianist Van Cliburn
"Van Cliburn was an international legend for over five decades, a great 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
Renowned concert pianist Van Cliburn has passed away of bone cancer. He was 78. Cliburn was a child prodigy who enrolled in Juilliard at 17 and made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 20. But Cliburn took the world by
Van Cliburn practices with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on September 8, 1989. (David Woo/The Dallas Morning News). On June 8, 1989 I was assigned to cover a dinner party at the Modern Art Museum of Fort
By the time he came on stage to play in the final round, "the crowd had become nearly hysterical," Chicago Tribune arts critic Howard Reich wrote in "Van Cliburn," his 1993 biography. "Roughly 1,500 people had jammed the Great Hall of the Moscow
"Van Cliburn was an international legend for over five decades, a great 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






