A Service of Worship Honouring the Life of

Van Cliburn
Sunday, 3 March 2013 3:00 in the Afternoon Broadway Baptist Church Fort Worth, Texas

The service is officiated by The Reverend Dr. Brent Beasley The organ is played by Dr. Albert L. Travis Organist of Broadway Baptist Church performing on the Rildia Bee OBryan Organ The Chorus The Chorus of Broadway A Choir of North Texas Musicians Thomas M. Stoker, conductor Michael Cox, conductor The Orchestra The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Miguel Harth-Bedoya, music director

Pall Bearers Perry Bass Fuller French Craig Kelly Burke Kleinheinz Peter More Sam More Charlie Potts Alexander Rodzinski Edward Sampson

Honourary Pall Bearers Ed Bass Lee Bass Ken Blasingame Rick Boswell Vito Ciracci Brad Corbett, Jr. Bill Davis Charlie Flanders Larry Flax Ben Fortson John Giordano John Goff David Jaynes Dee Kelly, Jr. John Kleinheinz Igor Klimov Steven Lash John Marion Tim McKinney Ernie Menaldino Dick Moncrief Richard Rodzinski Stu Ross Matt Tilley Ron Walker John Williams Mitch Wynne

Cliburn Gold Medalist Honourary Pall Bearers Ralph Votapek 1962 Radu Lupu 1966 Cristina Ortiz 1969 Vladimir Viardo 1973 Andr Michel Schub 1981 Jos Feghali 1985 Simone Pedroni 1993 Jon Nakamatsu 1997 Stanislav Ioudenitch 2001 Olga Kern 2001 Alexander Kobrin 2005 Nobuyuki Tsujii 2009 Haochen Zhang 2009

PRELUDE

* PROCESSIONAL The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune Ralph Vaughan Williams

All people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; him serve with fear, his praise forth tell, come ye before him, and rejoice. The Lord, ye know, is God indeed, without our aid he did us make; we are his folk, he doth us feed, and for his sheep he doth us take. O enter then his gates with praise, approach with joy his courts unto; praise, laud, and bless his name always, for it is seemly so to do. For why? The Lord our God is good: his mercy is forever sure; his truth at all times firmly stood, and shall from age to age endure. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the God whom heaven and earth adore, from men and from the angel host be praise and glory evermore. Amen.

OPENING SENTENCES

The Reverend Dr. Brent Beasley

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*HYMN When Morning Gilds the Skies Arranged by Sterling Procter When morning gilds the skies, my heart awaking cries, may Jesus Christ be praised! Alike at work and prayer to Jesus I repair, may Jesus Christ be praised! Does sadness fill my mind? A solace here I find, may Jesus Christ be praised! Or fades my earthly bliss? My comfort still is this, may Jesus Christ be praised! The night becomes as day, when from the heart we say, may Jesus Christ be praised! The powers of darkness fear when this sweet chant they hear, may Jesus Christ be praised! (Organ Interlude) Be this, while life is mine, my canticle divine, may Jesus Christ be praised! Be this theternal song through all the ages long, may Jesus Christ be praised! LAUDES DOMINI

INVOCATION AND LORDS PRAYER

The Reverend Dr. Brent Beasley

TRIBUTE

Thomas Lon Smith

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ANTHEM Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing Arranged by Mack Wilberg

Come, thou fount of evry blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace. Streams of mercy, never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount! Im fixed upon it, mount of thy redeeming love. Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither by thy help Im come. And I hope by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Heres my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above. Jesus sought me when a stranger wandring from the fold of God. He, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood. Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Heres my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above. O to grace how great a debtor daily Im constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandring heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Heres my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above. PSALM 23 Ray Boswell

TRIBUTE

The Honorable George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States

*HYMN America the Beautiful O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law. O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine! O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea! MATERNA

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TRIBUTE

The Honorable Rick Perry, Governor of the State of Texas

CHORAL RESPONSE Moscow Nights TRIBUTE ANTHEM Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Traditional Russian Melody Dee J. Kelly

Arranged by Mark Wilberg

Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heavn, to earth come down. Fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown! Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter evry trembling heart. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into evry troubled breast! Let us all in Thee inherit; let us find thy promised rest. Take away the love of sinning; Alpha and Omega be. End of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. Come, Almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive. Suddenly return and never, never more thy temples leave. Thee, we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. Finish, then, thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be. Let us see thy great salvation, perfectly restored in thee. Changed from glory into glory, till in heavn we take our place; till we cast our crowns before Thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise.

POEM Steal Not Away written by Van Cliburn

Read by Paul Harvey, Jr.

Steal not away, O pierced heart From all lifes mist of treasures, Of song and dance and worldly pleasures To escape this fury in silent depart. Flee though not, thou bleeding heart From all lifes tribulation, But on the morrow, take consolation In the beauty that thou art. And the empyreal choirs will sing in the empyreal rooms And their song will be our song. Just for us--us two. But, will it be for us only, till there be no tombs To cover us, and time will neer be long For us--too? TRIBUTE Joseph W. Polisi, president of The Juilliard School Sergei Rachmaninoff

Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Opus 27: Adagio

TRIBUTE CHORAL RESPONSE Our Father from Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom TRIBUTE *HYMN Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

Olga Rostropovich

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Sid Bass

CWM RHONDDA

Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land; I am weak, but thou art mighty; Hold me with thy powrful hand; Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more, Feed me till I want no more. Open now the crystal fountain, Whence the healing stream doth flow; Let the fire and cloudy pillar Lead me all my journey through; Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer, Be thou still my strength and shield, Be thou still my strength and shield. When I tread the verge of Jordon, Bid my anxious fears subside; Bear me thro the swelling current, Land me safe on Canaans side; Songs of praises, songs of praises I will ever give to thee, I will ever give to thee. THE HOMILY The Reverend Dr. Brent Beasley

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*HYMN God Be With You Till We Meet Again

GOD BE WITH YOU

God be with you till we meet again, By His counsels guide, uphold you, With His sheep securely fold you, God be with you till we meet again. Till we meet, till we meet, Till we meet at Jesus feet; Till we meet, till we meet, God be with you till we meet again. God be with you till we meet again, Neath His wings securely hide you, Daily manna still provide you, God be with you till we meet again. Till we meet, till we meet, Till we meet at Jesus feet; Till we meet, till we meet, God be with you till we meet again. God be with you till we meet again, When lifes perils thick confound you, Put His arms unfailing round you, God be with you till we meet again. Till we meet, till we meet, Till we meet at Jesus feet; Till we meet, till we meet, God be with you till we meet again. God be with you till we meet again, Keep loves banner floating oer you, Smite deaths threatning wave before you, God be with you till we meet again. Till we meet, till we meet, Till we meet at Jesus feet; Till we meet, till we meet, God be with you till we meet again. * BENEDICTION * RECESSIONAL A Russian Folk Song ORGAN DISMISSAL * Please stand The Reverend Dr. Brent Beasley

Traditional Russian Melody

Immediately following the service Thomas Smith will receive everyone at the City Club 301 Commerce Street Private interment at Greenwood Mausoleum

HONOURS

The Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by President George W. Bush

National Medal of Arts presented by President Barack Obama

Russian Order of Friendship presented by President Vladimir Putin

Kennedy Center Honors

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award