Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (82 page)

Billy Graham’s Crusade, 104

Black Sea, 55, 120, 222, 257, 271–72, 288–89

Blair House, 243, 248–49

Bliss, Arthur, 133, 156, 163

Bogoslovsky, Nikita, 138–39

Boland, Frederick, 276, 277

Bolsheviks and Bolshevism, 10, 55, 89, 132, 212

Bolshoi Ballet, 235–36, 298, 303

Bolshoi Opera, 298

Bolshoi Theatre, 127, 144, 193, 298

Bonapartism, 91

Borge, Victor, 315

Boris Godunov
(opera), 298

Boston Symphony, 86

Boutry, Roger, 114

Bradford, Q. L., 23–24

Brahms, Johannes

Concerto, B-flat, 68

Intermezzo, op. 118, no. 6., 354

Piano Concerto no. 2, 267

Rhapsody in G Minor, 336

Rosalie Leventritt and, 71

Van’s performances of, 69, 72, 324

Brahms-Handel Variations, 116

Brezhnev, Leonid

arms control treaty, 348

death of, 350

joke about, 350

Khrushchev replaced by, 306–7

Nixon and, 332, 333

support of other leaders, 316

Van and, 314, 333, 336–37

Voroshilov replaced by, 259

Bridal Chorus from
Lohengrin
(Wagner), 21

Bridges, Styles, 99

Britain, 87, 91

The Brothers Karamazov
(Dostoevsky), 245

Browning, John, 68, 76, 102, 104, 113, 129

Brown v. Board of Education,
81

Brubeck, Dave, 353

Brussels World’s Fair, 108, 173, 217–18, 220–22, 231

Buckingham Hotel, 75

Budapest, Hungary, 111, 112, 113

Bulganin, Nikolai

demotion of, 131

plot against Khrushchev and, 89–90, 91, 178

removed from Central Committee, 230–31

Stalin’s death and, 51

on Stalin’s dinners, 49

Van’s socializing with, 209

Bülow, Hans von, 6–7

Bundy, McGeorge, 323

Bush, George H. W., 353, 358

Bush, George W., 363

Bush, Laura, 353

Butts, Rosemary, 63

Callas, Maria, 224

Calvary Baptist Church, 37–38, 67, 75, 78, 207, 285

CAMI (Columbia Artists Management, Inc.)

business model of, 101–2

Judd and, 64–65

Judson and, 67

Van and secretaries at, 78

Van’s performance fee and, 77

Van’s schedule and, 255

Van’s signing with, 71

Van’s slump and, 103

Van’s win and, 184

Camp David, 249–52

Can-Can
(film), 247, 253

capitalism, Khrushchev on, 279

Capitol Theatre, 65

Carmen
(opera), 23, 218

Carnegie Hall

Albert Schweitzer Award at, 348

debut at, as prize, 297–98

Gilels at, 79

Josef Lhévinne at, 33

Rachmaninoff at, 10

Tchaikovsky at, 7, 77

Van and Kondrashin at, 201–2

Van in audience of, 38

Van performing at, 70–71, 202–4, 215, 284, 324

Carnegie Hall Tavern, 78

Carpenter, Liz, 311, 312–13

Carter, Jimmy, 348

Cassidy, Claudia, 102

Castle Bravo test, 72–73

Castro, Fidel, 234–35, 279, 289, 294, 296, 302–3

Catcher in the Rye,
316

Central Baptist Church (Moscow), 273, 333

Central Committee of Communist Party.
See also
Presidium of the Central Committee

attack on Shostakovich and Prokofiev, 27–28

Bulganin removed from, 230–31

commission against formalist tendencies, 304

confession of errors by, 231

Kaftanov’s message to, 161–62

Khrushchev named first secretary of, 62

Khrushchev’s letter to, 84

Khrushchev’s retirement accepted by, 307

musical festival approved by, 95

plenum on plot against Khrushchev, 90

Stalin’s accusations of treason in, 83

Stalin’s funeral and, 57–58

Stalin’s package from, 47

Van investigated by, 167

Central Exhibition Hall, 282

Central House of Literary Workers, 140

Central Music School, 193

Central Philharmonic (China), 335

Chaliapin, Feodor, 256

Chapin, Betty Steinway, 71, 103, 182

Chapin, Schuyler, 71–72, 103, 119

Chasins, Abram, 67, 202, 208, 215

Chautauqua, New York, 64

Chautauquan,
64

Chebotaryova, Comrade, 179

Chernenko, Konstantin, 350

Cheryomushki
(Shostakovich), 231

Chicago, Illinois, 73, 218, 362

Chicago Daily News,
249

Chicago Sun-Times,
249

Chicago Symphony, 284

Chicago Tribune,
268

Children’s World (Moscow), 144

China

American tour of, 93–94

Cultural Revolution, 317–20, 335–36

fall to Mao Zedong’s Communists, 29

Liu Shikun’s life in, 111–12, 178, 360

Mao and Khrushchev, 229–30, 251, 253

Nixon’s visit to, 329, 332, 335

nuclear device exploded by, 305

Soviet Union’s relationship with, 59, 111, 126–27, 306

Chinese Community Party, 266, 282

Chopin, Frédéric

Fantaisie in F Minor, 116, 117, 145, 164, 174, 254, 291

“Funeral March,” 56–57, 326

out of fashion, 30

piano saying of, 141

Polonaise in A-flat Major, op. 53, 132

Shtarkman and mold of, 146

Sonata in B Minor, 116, 117

Tchaikovsky Competition and, 109

Van’s performances of, 67, 69, 71–72, 136, 236, 254, 269, 283, 324, 339

Van’s practice of, 42

Churchill, Winston, 305

CIA

avant-garde music promotion advocated by, 221

Bay of Pigs and, 279

Castro suggested to be employed by, 235

chief Allen Dulles, 86

Congress for Cultural Freedom, 29

Doctor Zhivago
and, 231

Operation Mongoose, 296

Soviet ships watched by, 296

State Department compared to, 80

U-2s, 257, 259

World Festival of Youth and Students and, 91

Cleveland Summer Orchestra, 72, 103

Cliburn, Mr. and Mrs. (Van’s parents)

at Carnegie Hall, 70

Cliburn, Harvey Lavan

career of, 15–16

concerns about Van, 285, 286

death of, 338

dream for Van, 18, 226

gun incident, 219–20

Van supported by, 18, 22–23, 66, 208

Cliburn, Rildia Bee O’Bryan

death of, 363

dinner in honor of, 225

on game show, 217

injury of, 103–5

overprotective reputation of, 76

Rachmaninoff and, 15–17, 107–8, 110

Rosina Lhévinne and, 31–32

Van’s birth and, 15, 19

Van’s gifts for, 200

Van’s gifts from, 285

Van’s move to New York and, 35, 36

as Van’s piano teacher, 17–19, 21–25, 34, 102, 136, 325

Van’s praise of, 270

Van’s retirement and, 343–47, 351, 352, 353, 360–62

Van’s romantic life and, 341–42

as Van’s tour manager, 286, 289–90, 295, 313, 325, 336, 338

in London, 217

move to Kilgore, 19–21

Rayburn’s call to, 249

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and, 297

Van’s Leventritt award and, 69

Van’s messages and calls to, 119–20, 127, 135, 189

Van’s photos of, 45

Van’s relationship with, 25, 78–79

Van’s return to New York and, 199–202, 204, 206, 208, 215–17, 223

Van’s Tchaikovsky Competition win and, 167–68, 172, 180–82

at White House reception, 315

Cliburn, Van

alternative spirituality of, 314–15, 342, 346, 363

as American’s national pianist, 313

as American Sputnik, 177, 180

childhood of, 15–26

birth, 15, 19

early piano playing, 17–19

first performances, 22

in Kilgore, TX, 19–25

love of opera, 23

teenage years, 35

comeback tour, 362–63

dating and sexuality of, 74–75, 76–77, 210, 213, 233, 311–12, 341–42

death of, 365

as diplomat, natural, 188–89

draft board evaluation, 105

endowed scholarships, 321

honorary degrees, 321–22

illness of, 111, 115

at Juilliard School (
See under
Juilliard School)

love affair with Russians during Cold War, 1–3, 185, 186–95, 206, 208

low period in career, 101–5

outing of, 363–64

parents of (
See
Cliburn, Mr. and Mrs.)

popularity in American entertainment, 71–72, 214–17, 218–20, 222–28

pressure on, 214–15, 222–26

properties owned by, 285