Moscow nights: the Van Cliburn story: how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War 9780062333162, 9780062333186, 006233316X

Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played

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English Pages 464 Year 2016

Table of 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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