Van Cliburn Reviews

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5.00 of 5 (by 1 user)

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cliburn video clips and samples online (all)
cliburn story good for school reports (all)
energetic virtuoso playing easy to like (all)

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Van Cliburn Ratings and Reviews

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This red-haired Texan's CD outlives most others.

appreciative of talent, a music lover, convinced good things really can last, a history lover, fascinated by diversity

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2008

     Before 2008 gets away from us, let's celebrate the 50th anniversary of a special American hero with a performance -- LP, cassette, now CD -- that defies time.
     The hero's name? Van Cliburn. His act of valor? Winning a major musical competition in the Soviet Union (Russia) during the worst of the big-old, bad-old Cold War months after Sputnik.
     No one ever thought the Russians would allow a non-Russian, much less a 23-year-old American, to win the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. But Van, a gangly Texan with a mop of curly red hair, won over the populace... review »