Texas pianist Van Cliburn performs to a packed audience in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in Moscow in April 1958 during the first International Tchaikovsky Competition, which he won. (Van Cliburn Foundation, via AP). Yet it is noVan Cliburn practices with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on September 8, 1989. He was rehearsing for his performance on September 9, 1989. (David Woo/The Dallas MorningPresident George W. Bush, Governor Rick Perry and Van Cliburn's friend of long standing give remarks at the memorial service for the pianist.Renowned American classical pianist Van Cliburn died Wednesday morning at the age of 78 after a battle with bone cancer, publicist and longtime friend Mary Lou Falcone told The Associated Press. Falcone announced inVan 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
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