Today in 1958 Van Cliburn of Kilgore, TX earned 1st prize in the Soviet Union’s Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow.
He won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. He came home to the USA to a ticker tape in New York City.
Here he is as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line?
No comments:
Post a Comment