[The first-ever Tchaikovsky Competition] 60 years ago (April 1958), American pianist Van Cliburn won the First prize of the inaugural Tchaikovsky Piano Competition with Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 3 and Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1! In this excerpt, Van Cliburn goes back to Moscow at the beginning of the 60s with a series of concerts featuring Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto: http://bit.ly/Cliburn_Moscow | medici.tv

On this day, 60 years ago, a young pianist with extraordinary ability and a warm Texas spirit thawed hearts and rose above all boundaries to touch the world with classical music. We pay tribute to our inspiration and namesake, Van Cliburn, on this significant anniversary of his historic International Tchaikovsky Competition victory in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. [clip from Virtuosity, the documentary of the 2013 Cliburn Competition, directed by Christopher Wilkinson and produced by Lor