What happened Van Cliburn?
Death. On August 27, 2012, Cliburn’s publicist announced that the pianist had advanced bone cancer, had undergone treatment and was “resting comfortably at home” in Fort Worth, where he received around-the-clock care. Cliburn died on February 27, 2013, at the age of seventy-eight. What did Van Cliburn play at the Tchaikovsky Competition? Once proclaimed “The…