Van Cliburn has been played on NTS in shows including Slime w/ Little, featured first on 27 May 2018. Songs played include Un Sospiro, Piano Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Minor Op. 23 and Piano Sonata In C Major, K. 330.

Van Cliburn (b. Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., July 12, 1934 - February 27, 2013), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. Cliburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and began taking piano lessons at the age of three from his mother,…