[Magdalen] 60 Years Ago Today

[Grace Cangialosi]

I remember this well—I was in high school in Germany, and when my aunt and uncle came to visit, they brought me his recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1, which had won him the competition. Then when I was in college, he came and did two recitals.

> On Apr 13, 2018, at 7:39 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In the midst of the Cold War <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War>,
> American pianist *Van Cliburn <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Cliburn>* won
> the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Tchaikovsky_Competition> in
> Moscow.
> 
> ​I got to see him perform once with the Philadelphia Orchestra at a summer
> concert. I think lost count of how many ​encores he did.
> -- 
> 
> Christopher Hart
> 
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