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- <text id=94TT1037>
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- Aug. 15, 1994: Died:Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Aug. 15, 1994 Infidelity--It may be in our genes
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 13
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- <p> DIED. RILDIA BEE O'BRYAN CLIBURN, 97, piano teacher; in Fort
- Worth, Texas. Like her mother and grandmother, Cliburn was a
- gifted pianist--she studied with a student of Franz Liszt's--but parental disapproval of a concert career turned her to
- teaching. Her most famous pupil: son Van Cliburn, whom she taught
- piano from age three to his Juilliard years. In fact, it was
- she who taught him Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, the piece
- he played in 1958 at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Piano Competition
- and for which he won first prize--and instant fame. At a later
- Moscow recital, Cliburn had his mother play for an encore-mad
- audience. She brought down the house.
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- </body>
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