Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (84 page)

Glynn, Paul, 320–21

Goldenweiser, A. B., 127, 139, 155

Gontaut Biron, Armand de, 139

gopak
(Cossack dance), 49, 196

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 351–58, 359, 360, 361

Gorbachev, Raisa, 351, 353, 354, 355, 356–57, 358, 360–62

Gorky, Russia, 289

Gorky Automobile Plant, 289

Gould, Glenn, 347

Grach, Eduard, 113

Graffman, Gary, 66, 68, 70–71, 102, 285

Graffman, Naomi, 66, 67, 68, 70–71, 78, 79, 338

Graham, Billy, 104, 206, 353

Grammy Awards, 236

Grant, Cary, 339

Gray, Oleta, 21

Greatest Hits
(Mathis), 223–24

Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory

Flier in, 146

during Nixon’s visit, 331

preliminary rounds in, 134

Shtarkman’s debut in, 130

in Tchaikovsky Competition brochure, 106

Van playing in after competition, 165–66

Van’s last performance during first visit to Moscow, 194

Van’s second visit to Russia and, 267, 269

Van’s sentimental attachment to, 290

Great Hall of the People, 329

Great Kremlin Palace, 172–73, 177, 332

Great Leap Forward, 229, 266

Great Society agenda, 323

Great Soviet Encyclopedia,
61

Greiner, Sascha, 106–7, 108, 118, 203

Gribanova, Klara, 193

Grieg, Edvard, 324

Griffin, Merv, 219

Gromyko, Andrei, 173, 280

Gulag camps, 27, 54, 59, 61, 231

Gulag survivors, 83, 85, 91–92

GUM (State Dept. Store, Moscow), 144

Gu Shengying, 111–12, 139, 317–18

Hagerty, James, 191

Haldeman, Bob, 336

Hamilton, Winifred, 24, 285

“Hamlet” (Pasternak), 265

Hammer, Armand, 353

Hayes, George, 182

Hayter, William Goodenough, 62

Heading Toward the Competition
(radio series), 115

Heafner, Jean, 75–76, 182

Heidelberg, West Germany, 222

Heifetz, Jascha, 11

Helms, Richard, 323

Hendl, Walter, 64

Hernádi, Lajos, 163

Hickenlooper, Lucy, 45

Hillman, Serrell, 182

Hindemith, Paul, 42

Hines, Jerome, 298

Hitler, Adolf, 8–9, 19, 85–86, 87, 347

Hollywood Bowl, 218–19, 315, 363

Hollywood movies about Soviet Union, 11

homosexuality, 73–74, 76–77, 210, 213, 227–28, 232–33, 324

Hoover, J. Edgar, 191, 212, 213, 220, 249, 311–12

Horowitz, Vladimir

compared to Van, 365

defection to U.S., 10, 11

homosexuality of, 76

interpreter for, 107

Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and, 8

time away from piano, 347

Horszowski, Mieczyslaw, 67

Hospital for Special Surgery (NYC), 235

Hotel Rossiya, 330

Hotel Ukraine, 128

House of Creativity at Ruza, 264–65

House of Unions (Moscow), 55–56

House on the Embankment, 269–70, 331

Houston, Sam, 19

Houston Post,
324

Houston Symphony Orchestra, 25–26

“Howling Song,” 318

How to Survive an Atomic Bomb,
39–40

Humphrey, Hubert, 313, 323

Hungarian Revolution (1956), 86, 276

Hungary, 86, 145, 164, 244, 304.
See also
Budapest, Hungary

Hunt, H. L., 20

Hurok, Sol

Bolshoi Ballet and, 235–36, 298

CBS tribute to, 321

death of, 338

Janis and, 290

management by, as prize, 297–98

Moiseyev Dance Company and, 86

Nixon’s visits to Soviet Union and, 330, 336–37

Rildia Bee hired by, 286

Tonight We Sing
(film), 65, 256, 267

Van ignored by, 71, 79

Van pursued by, 168

Van’s second trip to Russia and, 263, 270

Van’s signing with, 256–57

hydrogen bombs, 45–46, 62, 72–73, 98, 246, 281

ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles)

Soviets and, 198, 252, 257, 278–79, 282, 288

Sputnik
and, 98

U.S. and, 299

Ignatiev (head of secret police), 48, 50–51

IIE (Institute of International Education), 108–9

Ilyushin Il-28 jet bombers, 296, 303

Ilyushin Il-62 jetliner, 333

Institute of Aviation Medicine, 272

Institute of International Education (IIE), 108–9

Institute of Languages, 114

Institute of Musical Art, 16

inter-baby boom, 93

Interlochen National Music Camp, 286

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, 352

Intermezzo, op. 118, no. 6. (Brahms), 354

International Exchange Program, 80–81

International Union of Students, 91

Iowa, 248

Iron Curtain

Berlin and gash in, 250

brilliant musicians behind, 146

cultural exchanges and, 81

falling across Europe, 26

floating scriptures across, 80

impassibility of, 44

Khrushchev opening up, 88–89, 359

Van’s effort to straddle, 249

“I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream,” 243

Israel, 85, 87, 295–96

Istomin, Eugene, 67, 108

Iturbi, José, 24–25

Ivanovo State Pedagogical Institute, 192

Izvestiya,
115

Jackson, C. D., 86

Janis, Byron, 290–91, 292, 314

Japan and Japanese, 72–73, 74, 339

jazz music, 37, 38, 80, 93, 316

Jeopardy!
(game show), 344

Jewish Defense League, 338

Jews, 36, 44–45, 48, 54, 304

Jiang Qing, 319, 334

Jim Crow laws, 81

Johannsdottir, Thorunn, 131, 266, 287

Johnson, Lady Bird, 311

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Hoover’s phone call with, 311–12

Khrushchev and, 306

moon landing and, 325

reception for Tchaikovsky Competition winners, 315

as Senate majority leader, 182, 191, 212

summit at ranch of, 311–13

Van and, 320–21, 336

Vietnam War and, 322–23

Joiner, Columbus Marion “Dad,” 19–20

Joseph Patelson Music House, 38

Judd, Bill

concerns about Van, 190–91

European tour suggested by, 105

Leventritt Competition and, 68

office of, 78

Van discovered by, 64–65

Van’s invitation to compete and, 107, 109

Van’s return to New York and, 200, 202, 214

Van’s signing with Hurok and, 255–56

Van’s win and, 168, 183–84

Judson, Arthur, 67, 68

Judson, O’Neill, and Judd, 65

Juilliard, Augustus D., 32–33

The Juilliard Review,
77

Juilliard School

described, 32–33

homosexuality at, 76

Institute of Musical Art and, 16

Judd’s discovery of Van at, 64–66

Rosina Lhévinne and, 31–32, 33–34, 37, 40–44

Van’s arrival at, 31–32, 36–37

Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, 43–44, 108

Jupiter-class intermediate-range ballistic missiles, 288, 300

Kabalevsky, Dmitri

on piano jury, 133, 138, 162, 164

“Rondo,” 116, 148, 154

at supper at Thompsons’, 188

at Tchaikovsky Competition award ceremony, 175

Kaftanov, Deputy Culture Minister, 161–62

Kaganovich, “Iron Lazar,” 51, 89–90, 91

Kaye, Danny, 219

Kazakhstan, 91, 96

Keene, Constance, 202

Kennedy, Caroline, 303

Kennedy, Jackie, 283, 303, 306

Kennedy, John F.

assassination of, 306, 311

Cuban Missile Crisis, 296, 298–302

elegant formality of, 313

joint space venture proposed by, 305–6

Mikoyan and, 303, 306

moon landing pledge, 303, 305, 325

as new president, 278–83

Kennedy, Robert, 301, 302, 303, 323

Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald, 303

Kennedy, Ted, 303

KGB

Beria as butcher of, 50

Feklisov as station chief, 300

informers at Moscow Conservatory, 232

at Khrushchev’s funeral, 326

Khrushchev’s villa and, 292

minders, 184, 278

Nixon’s visit and, 330, 331

Pasternak’s funeral and, 265

Tchaikovsky Competition and, 151

U-2 crash and, 259

Van investigated by, 127–28, 167, 290

World Festival of Youth and Students and, 91–92, 93

Khachaturian, Aram, 179, 290

Khrennikov, Tikhon, 138, 307

Khrushchev, Elena, 293

Khrushchev, Leonid, 279

Khrushchev, Nikita

attacks on cultural events and artists, 303–4

Berlin ultimatum, 233, 242, 250, 251–52, 280–81

Cuban Missile Crisis, 298–303

Cuba scheme and, 289, 294

cultural exchanges and, 298

death and funeral of, 326–28

domestic programs and policies, 88, 89, 125, 144, 231

economic and bureaucratic reorganization by, 240

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

Frankel and, 159

Gorbachev compared to, 351–52, 353

invasion of Egypt and, 87

Iron Curtain twitched back by, 88–89, 359

Kennedy and, 279–83, 305–6

Liu and, 318

Mao and, 229–30, 251, 253, 262, 306