Title:
Moscow nights : the Van Cliburn story : how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War
Author:
Cliff, Nigel.
ISBN:
9780062333162
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY :
Harper,
[2016?]
©2016
Physical Description:
viii, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; photographs ; 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.
Abstract:
Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall of fear built by the Cold War, won the hearts of the American and Russian people, and eased tensions between two superpowers on the brink of nuclear war.
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