Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (83 page)

retirement of, 338–48

seventieth-birthday tour, 364

speeches of, 346, 348

at Tchaikovsky Competition (
See under
First International Tchaikovsky Competition)

as Tchaikovsky Competition honorary chairman, 364

Cliburn Foundation, 351, 361

Cliff House (Tucson), 227

Coconut Palace, 337

Colbert, Claudette, 353

Cold War

cultural diplomacy, tension in, 221

end of, 359

homosexuality during, 74

Momism, 76

Stalin and, 26–27

Tchaikovsky Competition and, 3

U.S. government support of the arts and, 80–81

Van’s love affair with Russians during, 1–3

“Cold War cultural exchange,” 80, 211, 256–57

Colman, Ronald, 344

Columbia Artists Management, Inc.
See
CAMI

Columbia Records, 168

Cominform (Communist Information Bureau), 28

communism.
See also
Marxism-Leninism

Billy Graham crusade and, 104

Cultural Revolution in China, 317

Eisenhower and, 46

Eurocommunism, 86

homosexuality linked to, 74–75, 76

Johnson’s paranoia about, 323

Khrushchev’s belief in, 84–85, 87, 100, 240, 241

Moscow as command center for, 143

Red Scare and, 29–30, 73–74, 104

regimes crumbled, 359

rivalry between China and Soviet Union, 229–30

Soviet youths and, 94

Communist Party.
See also
Central Committee of Communist Party

classes on history of, 57

Cuban, 235

Khrushchev’s speech to, 82–86, 111

Muscovites’ belief in, 92

Stalin’s death and, 53–55, 57–58, 59–62

Composers’ Union House of Creativity, 114

Concerto, B-flat (Brahms), 68

Concerto in A Minor (Schumann), 187, 224

Concerto in D Minor (Bach), 56

Concerto no. 3 in D Minor (Rachmaninoff), 154

Congress for Cultural Freedom, 29

Conover, Willis, 93

Constitution Hall, 212, 213, 300, 320, 324

Copland, Aaron, 28, 151

Cosmos Travel Bureau, 117, 118

Coward, Noël, 236

Coyne, Pat, 213

Cronkite, Walter, 266–67

Crowe, William, 357–58

Cuba, 234–35, 279, 289, 294, 296

Cuban Communist Party, 234

Cuban Missile Crisis, 298–303

Cukor, George, 76

Cultural and Scientific Congress for World Peace, 28

Cultural Revolution (China), 317–20, 335–36

Cutler, Robert, 213

Czar Bomba, 282, 283

Czechoslovakia,
316

Dacha no. 9, 292

Dahl, Arlene, 219, 342

Dallas Symphony Orchestra, 42

Daniel, Price, 225

Davis, Richard, 147, 189, 191–92

The Day the Earth Stood Still
(film), 39

Debussy, Claude, 69, 72, 339, 354–55

“Deep in the Heart of Texas,” 337

de Gaulle, Charles, 261

DeMille, Cecile B., 219

Department of Sanitation Band, 207

de-Stalinization, 89, 99–100, 230, 282

Diary of the Competition
(radio program), 141–42

Dichterliebe
(Schumann), 139

Dictaphone Dictabelt, 312

Die Meistersinger von N
ür
nberg
(opera), 7

Dietrich, Marlene, 236

DiMaggio, Joe, 353

Disneyland, 245, 246, 247

Dobrynin, Anatoly, 357

Doctor Zhivago
(Pasternak), 231–32, 265

Dole, Bob and Elizabeth, 353

Domingo, Placido, 286

Don Cossacks, 9

Dorensky, Sergei, 128–29, 136, 176, 220, 264

Dorliak, Nina, 232–33

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 245, 265

Dowis, Jeaneane, 32, 38, 43–44, 68, 76, 104, 284

Dulles, Allen, 86, 259–60

Dulles, John Foster, 80, 86, 167, 185, 188, 233

Eames, Charles, 237

Eastern European Jews, 36, 44–45

East Germany, 281

East Texas Oilfield, 20

The Ed Sullivan Show,
283

Egypt, 87, 196

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

1952 election won by, 46

1960 election and, 278

atomic advantage and, 283

Cold War cultural exchange, 79–80, 211, 256

Khrushchev and, 87, 97, 241–43, 249–53, 259–62, 268, 274

Menshikov and, 213

Mikoyan’s meetings with, 233

nuclear war preparations, 305

People-to-People program, 108

school integration and, 97

Silent Generation of, 74

space program and, 100

telegram to Van, 185–86

Van’s visit to White House and, 211, 212

warning of military-industrial-congressional complex, 278–79

Eisenhower, Mamie, 211

Eliot, T. S., 80

Elisabeth, Queen of Belgium, 130–31, 144, 152, 172–73, 178, 221

Elvis Presley Fan Club, 2, 218

Emperor Concerto
(Beethoven), 41

Empire State Building, 39–40, 245

“Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government,” 74

Erhard, Ludwig, 312, 313

“Étude-Tableau” op. 33 in E-flat Minor (Rachmaninoff), 134

“Étude-Tableau,” op. 39, no. 5 (Rachmaninoff), 154

Eurocommunism, 86

experimental farm at Beltsville, Maryland, 243

“The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You,” 218

F-102 fighters, 301–2

Fadeyev, Alexander, 84

Falcone, Mary Lou, 341

fallout shelters, 280

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

FBI

gay hunts by, 74

Harvey’s gun incident and, 219–20

Liu Shikun and, 349

Soviet visitors investigated by, 297

Van investigated by, 167, 191, 210, 212, 233, 236, 249, 288, 311–12

White investigated by, 227

Feinberg, Samuel, 112

Feklisov, Alexander, 8–10, 300, 302

Fifth Symphony (Shostakovich), 237

Finland, 288, 289, 295

First All-Union Congress of Soviet Composers, 27

First International Tchaikovsky Competition

allegations of rigging, 210

arrival of Van and other participants, 123–32

as burden and blessing for Van, 340

celebrations following, 171–84

Central Committee approval of, 95

Liu’s preparation for, 111–12

Organizing Committee for, 106, 114, 116, 118, 129

piano competition, finals, 151–58, 162–64

piano competition, preliminary rounds, 135–42

piano competition, second round, 145–50

piano competition commencement, 132–35

Reagan’s words about, 355

Soviet anticipation of, 115

Van persuaded to participate in, 106–9

Van’s anxiety during, 144–45

Van’s performance at, 1–2, 3

Van’s preparation for, 109–10, 115–20

Van’s stay in Soviet Union after, 185–95

Van’s win at, 164–70

violin competition, 132

Vlassenko chosen to participate in, 112–13

Vlassenko’s preparation for, 113–15

First Piano Concerto (Tchaikovsky)

composer’s performances of, 5–7, 8, 153

Gilels’s performance of, 79

original manuscript of, 186

RCA Victor recording of Van performing, 223–24

Van’s performances of, 25–26, 43–44, 68, 70, 109, 152–53, 203–4, 215, 216, 248, 271, 284

Fitzgerald, Ella, 38

Flier, Jacob, 114, 146

Flissler, Joyce, 109, 132, 140, 186, 209

Folk Arts Theater, 337–38

Fontaine, Joan, 219

Ford, Gerald, 339

formalism, 27, 28, 304

Fort Worth home of Van, 343–46

Fort Worth Orchestra, 365

Fort Worth Piano Teachers Forum, 225

Fort Worth Symphony, 362

Four Cleanups campaign, 317

Four Quartets
(Eliot), 80

France, 87

Frankel, Max

on Nixon’s trip to Soviet Union, 332

Schubart’s tracking down of, 147

at Tchaikovsky Competition finals, 151–52, 155, 156

Van’s win and, 166–67, 168, 171

Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, 243

Friedheim, Arthur, 16, 141, 151, 189, 218

Fulbright, William, 182

Fulbright scholarship, 129, 133

“Funeral March” (Chopin), 56–57, 326

Furtseva, “Madame,” 267, 287

Fuschi, Olegna, 105–6

Gable, Clark, 219

Gaddis, Ken, 320, 321

Gang of Four, 319, 334, 335–36

Garbo, Greta, 236, 342

Garden Ring (Moscow), 125, 126

Gagarin, Yuri, 279

Garmash, Irina, 267, 360–61, 365

Garson, Greer, 219, 344, 348

G. B. Dealey Memorial Award, 42, 66

Gedda-Nova, Nadia, 134, 149, 150, 163

Geneva, Switzerland, 351–52

German Democratic Republic, 281

Germans, 74

Gershwin, George, 223

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 250

Gilels, Emil

announcement of Van as winner, 170

dinner with Van in New York, 349–50

as jury chairman, 106

on piano jury, 133, 138–39, 148–49, 155–56, 162, 163–64

popularity in West, 94

Richter and, 138

supper at Thompsons’ and, 187–88

Tchaikovsky Competition anticipation and, 115

U.S. visit by, 79

Van’s quoting of, 356

Ginsberg, Allen, 324

glasnost, 351, 359

Glimpses of the U.S.A.
(film), 237