A forty-page New York Philharmonic concert program, for which Cliburn played Brahms, Beethoven, Barber, and Chopin to benefit the Juilliard Music Scholarship Fund.

Van Cliburn gained international recognition when he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958, a contest that had been designed specifically to prove Soviet superiority during the Cold War. As is stated in this program: It was the competition in Moscow that made the Cliburn name a familiar commodity even in non-musical circles and boosted his career to a point where further biographical data seems superfluous.