According to his publicist, Van Cliburn, the legendary, classical pianist honored by a New York ticker-tape parade for winning a major Moscow competition in 1958, died Wednesday after a battle with bone cancer. To read the NY Times article, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/arts/music/van-cliburn-pianist-dies-at-78.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">click here</a>. Cliburn was 78 years old.

To get more information on bone cancer, click <a href="http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/bone" target="_blank">here</a>.