From the National Recording Registry: Van Cliburn, Russia and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto, No. 1 (April 11, 1958)

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04/27/2022 06:07 AM EDT

It was 64 years go this month that the US, in its then simmering Cold War with the Soviet Union, achieved one of its most startlingly and surprising victories.  All it involved was a yearly, Russian-sponsored music contest and an unassuming young piano virtuoso from Texas named Van Cliburn and his skilled beyond-his-years interpretation of […]

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