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Moscow nights : the Van Cliburn story : how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War
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Moscow nights : the Van Cliburn story : how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
452 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary:
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.
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.
Publication Info:
New York, NY : Harper, 2016.
Subject:
Pianists -- United States -- Biography.
Music and diplomacy
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
Cliburn, Van, 1934-2013 -- Travel -- Soviet Union.
Klaĭbern, Vėn, 1934-2013
Cliburn, Harvey Lavan, Jr., 1934-2013
Fortepianists
Piano players
Diplomacy and music
SAILS ISBN:
9780062333162