Word: vanyusha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obbligato of cheers, applause and feminine squeals of "Vanyusha!", curly-haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 27. put on a triumphant two-night stand in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition four years ago. He even got his first piano teacher into the act. Brought onstage by her son, Mrs. Rildia Bee Cliburn, 58, rippled off two warmly applauded pieces. The only clinker of the tour, in fact, was hit by Nikita Khrushchev. Ending a concert attended by the Soviet Premier, the Texas trebler dedicated Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor -'to Nikita...
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