Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (61 page)

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Notes

INTRODUCTION

1
  
“What’s goin’ on”:
VCL
, 131.

1
  
most famous
person
in America
: The Tchaikovsky prize, as suggested in the program note for a 1958 appearance with the Dallas Symphony, had “made Mr. Cliburn the most widely known pianist, one might almost say individual, in the United States today” (VCJA).

PRELUDE IN TWO PARTS

5
  
one Viennese critic:
Eduard Hanslick, reviewing the premiere of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto in the
Neue Freie Presse
of December 5, 1981.

5
  
Rubinstein asked the reticent composer:
The reconstruction is based on Tchaikovsky’s letter to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck in 1887, quoted in John Warrack,
Tchaikovsky
(New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1973), 78–79.

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bells pealing the Royal Hours . . . marriage fortunes:
The Orthodox Christmas Eve on January 6 marks the start of a traditional Slavic holiday, Svyatki, during which young women foretell their marriage prospects with wax and shadows. The Royal Hours, the services marking the times of prayer on the Eve of the Nativity, originated with the imperial services at Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

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American composer:
George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931), “Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 in B Flat Minor, op. 23,” Aspen Music Festival and School website, https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/program_notes/view/tchaikovsky-piano-concerto-no.-1-in-b-flat-minor-op.-23/25896.

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hardly destined to become classical:
The Boston Traveler
, quoted in
Concert Bulletin of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
, Seventieth Season (Boston, 1950).

7
  
“It turns out”:
Tchaikovsky to Vladimir Davidov, New York, April 30, 1891, in Elkhonon Yoffe,
Tchaikovsky in America: The Composer’s Visit in 1891
, trans. Lidya Yoffe (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 62–63.

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quarter of a mile:
New York Herald
, May 6, 1891.

8
  
Soviet spy:
Aleksandr Feklisov,
Za okeanom i na ostrove: Zapiski razvedchika
(Across the Ocean and on the Island: Memoirs of an Intelligence Man) (Moscow: DEM, 2001), Internet version.

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most famous piano concerto:
On November 28, 1909, with the New York Symphony Society conducted by Walter Damrosch.

11
  
“six-and-a-half-foot scowl”:
Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft,
Conversations with Igor Stravinsky
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), 41.

11
  
Hollywood movies:
The two described are
Mission to Moscow
(1943) and
The North Star
(1943).

11
  
premiere in Leningrad:
The Seventh Symphony premiered in Kuibyshev on March 5, 1942, and in Moscow on March 29. Sir Henry Wood and the London Philharmonic presented it in London on June 22, and Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra performed it in New York on July 19. The famous Leningrad premiere took place on August 9.