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The Community Concert Series was held in the auditorium on Western Washington University's campus some 30 miles away from where we were living at the time, and on Thursday evening Van Cliburn would be playing the Steinway.

My husband, Frank, a budding piano student at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music the day Van Cliburn won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Russia in 1958 at the age of 23, idolized him. Van Cliburn had made his Carnegie Hall debut at the tender age of 20.