Title:
Moscow nights : the Van Cliburn story--how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War
Van Cliburn story : how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War
Moscow nights : the Van Cliburn story
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Publication Date as Range:
2016
ISBN:
9780062333162
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
viii, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Contents:
First movement: sognando. The prodigy ; Room 412 ; The successor ; Van Cliburn Days ; The secret speech ; The red moon -- Second movement: volante. To Russia, with love ; "Vanya, Vanyusha!" ; "We are in orbit" ; "American Sputnik" ; The last romantic ; "He played the piano and the world was his" ; "He's better than Elvis by far!" ; In the heat of the kitchen ; Khrushchev in the capitalist den ; Back in the USSR ; Sole diplomacy ; Endgame -- Third movement: pianoforte. America's pianist ; Great expectations ; The summit -- Coda.
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