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Nina Plant Wideman was a great friend to Van Cliburn, and she was my teacher. When I got the opportunity to meet Van at a concert in Shreveport, his graciousness completely overwhelmed me. He spent over an hour after the concert talking to me and invited me to come back for the concert the next day. He met me on that next day at the door of the New Civic Theater and took me to a place behind the curtains where I could stand during the performance. I would not be seen by the audience from this vantage point, but would get to watch his hands from no more than 10 feet away. Many years later, one of my cousins met Van in Seattle and mentioned that he had a cousin who had played with the… Read more
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