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1 week agoA long, strange trip: Birder and ArtsWatcher Lorin Wilkerson traverses the West, from Red Rocks to The Cliburn in Texas * Oregon ArtsWatch
The story of Van Cliburn is well known: the lanky Texan shocked the world by winning the inaugural Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow during the height of the Cold War, in effect beating the Russians at their own game by playing gold-medal-worthy Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky concerti.
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