Remembering Van Cliburn
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
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's death has drawn plenty of attention, including from our editorial this morning and from the front pages of our paper and the New York Times. KERA also had a wonderful radio documentary last night about the famous pianist. And the Star
There is only one musician in American history 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 the brillo hair, who at the
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
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