Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (85 page)

named secretary of Central Committee, 62

Nasser and, 196

Nixon sparring with, 238–39, 240

nuclear weapons and, 196, 245, 281–83, 288–89

opening to the world strategy of, 161

Pasternak and, 231–32, 265

plot against, 89–91

Reagan’s mention of, 355

retirement of, 306–7, 325–26

rise to power, 131–32

rocket program and threats to U.S., 87–88, 174

Secret Speech, 82–86, 111, 127

Stalin’s death and, 49–53, 54, 57–58, 59–62

Tchaikovsky Competition and, 164, 172, 177–78

threats to U.S., 87–88, 174, 230

as
Time
Man of the Year, 100

U-2 spy planes and, 257, 258–61

unpredictability of, 148

U.S. presidents and, 3

U.S. visit by, 241–53

in Gettysburg, 250

in Iowa, 248

in Los Angeles, 245–47

in New York City, 244–45

in San Francisco, 247–48

Van and, 248–49, 251

in Washington, D.C. area, 241–44, 248–52

Van’s flowers from wife of, 185

Van’s invitation from, 257

Van’s relationship with, 173–74, 177, 199, 209, 212, 217, 220, 288, 289–90, 291, 292–94, 312, 333

Van’s second trip to Russia and, 257, 262, 263, 271, 272

Vlassenko’s rumored relationship with, 147

World Festival of Youth and Students and, 93–94

Khrushchev, Nina, 185, 242, 243, 246, 248, 293, 327

Khrushchev, Sergei, 173, 174, 242, 293, 325–26, 327

Khrushchev Remembers,
325–26

Kilgore, Texas, 19–25, 63–64, 104–5, 180–82, 225, 285

Kimbell, Kay, 343

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 323

Kinsey, Alfred, 73–74

Kissinger, Henry, 329, 336, 353

Kitchen Debate, 239–40, 250, 329, 332

Klimov, Valery, 132, 175, 186, 195, 255

Klimov, Yuri, 125, 128, 365

Klin, Russia, 140, 186

Komsomol, 92, 93, 232, 316

Komsomolskaya Pravda,
255, 294–95

Kondrashin, Kirill

at Gorky Automobile Plant, 289

Janis and, 290–91

in London, 217

in performance filming, 165

Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 13 and, 304

at supper at Thompsons’, 188

at Tchaikovsky Competition award ceremony, 176

as Tchaikovsky Competition conductor, 153, 154, 155, 156, 163

in U.S. to perform with Van, 201–4, 207, 215, 216, 217, 255, 315

Van’s argument with, 291–92

Van’s bonding with, 152, 186

Van’s request for, 184

Van’s second trip to Russia and, 267, 270, 271

in Washington, D.C. with Van, 211, 212, 213

Kones, Iris, 338

Korea, 29, 59

Korean Air Lines flight shot down, 348

Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Award, 42

Kosygin, Alexei, 333

Kremlin.
See
Moscow Kremlin

Kryukova, Tanya, 157

Kuntsevo, Stalin’s villa at, 292

La Campanella (Liszt), 116, 117

Lacy, William S. B., 185, 262

Latin America, 289

Lebanon, suicide bombing in, 348

Lenin
(ship), 241

Lenin, Vladimir, 26, 51, 53, 56, 58

Leningrad, Russia, 189, 190, 216, 270

“Leningrad Nights” (song), 93

Leningrad Philharmonic, 300

Leningrad Symphony
(Shostakovich), 11

Lenin Hills, 290

Lenin Sports Palace, 271

Lenin Stadium, 91

Lenin-Stalin mausoleum, 57–58, 59–60, 144, 196, 258, 282

Let’s Make Love
(film), 321

Leventritt, Rosalie, 66, 70–71, 118, 119, 315

Leventritt Competition and Award, 66–69, 102, 133, 161

Lewisohn Stadium, 219–20

Lhévinne, Josef, 33, 34, 41, 108, 194, 254

Lhévinne, Rosina

death of, 341

Gilels and, 79

history of, 33, 41

Russian appreciation for, 193

Tchaikovsky Competition and, 106–8, 110, 115–16, 118, 142, 147–48

as teacher, 40–44

Van accepted by, 34

Van Cliburn award to, 208

at Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 297

Van’s meeting of, 31–32

Van’s relationship with, 37, 45, 69–70, 134, 284, 325

Van’s return to U.S. and, 203, 204

Van’s win and, 183

Vlassenko’s meeting with, 254

Liberty Music Store, 202

Liebestraum
(Liszt), 132

Life,
151, 181, 183, 200–201, 202, 280

lilac shrub for Rachmaninoff’s grave, 193, 195, 200, 216–17

Lincoln Center (NYC), 300

L’isle joyeuse
(Debussy), 354–55

Liszt, Cosima, 6–7

Liszt, Franz

daughter of, 6–7

Friedheim as student of, 16, 218

Hollywood biopics of, 223

La Campanella, 116, 117

Liebestraum,
132

“Mazeppa,” 137

out of fashion, 30, 36

Piano Concerto no. 1, 313

Piano Concerto no. 2 in A Major, 163

retirement of, 347

Tchaikovsky Competition and, 109

Twelfth Hungarian Rhapsody, 34, 68, 116, 117, 145–46, 234

Van compared to, 72

Van influenced by, 25, 36, 42, 44

Van’s performances of, 67, 72, 136–37, 145–46, 324

Vlassenko’s performance of, 163

“Widmung,” 71, 354

Liszt Piano Competition, 111

Liu Shikun

arrested again, 349

after Cold War, 360

Cultural Revolution and confinement of, 317–20, 329, 334–36

dam digging by, 229

history of, 111–12

performance in America, 349

supper at Thompsons’ and, 187–88

in Tchaikovsky Competition, 139, 140, 149, 163

Van’s meeting of, 132

Van’s second trip to Russia and, 266

Van’s visit from, 365

Van’s win and, 176, 177–78

Lockheed Martin Plant, 296–97

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 244

Long, Marguerite, 132

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 355

Los Angeles, California, 10–11, 245–47

Los Angeles Olympics (1984), 348–49

Los Angeles Philharmonic, 43

Los Angeles Times,
322

Lowell, Robert, 313

Lowenthal, Jerome

impressions of Van, 104, 150

at supper at Thompsons’, 188

as Tchaikovsky Competition participant, 109, 114, 129, 133, 149, 170

Lozgachev, Pavel, 47–48, 50–51

Lubyanka prison, 27, 52, 138, 144

Luna 2
(spacecraft), 241

Lupu, Radu, 315

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 339

MacDowell, Edward, 324

MacLaine, Shirley, 74, 247, 253

Macmillan, Harold, 261

MAD (mutual assured destruction), 305

Malacañang Palace, 337

Malakhovka (outside Moscow), 114

Malenkov, Georgy

Khrushchev plotted against by, 89–90, 91

Khrushchev’s demotion of, 85

Khrushchev’s scheme and, 60–62

short reign of, 57–58, 59

Stalin’s death and, 49–50, 51–52, 56

Malinin, Yevgeny, 113

Manezh, 282, 304

Mannes, Leopold, 67

Manzhulo, Aleksei N., 236

Mao Zedong

China’s falling to, 29

Cultural Revolution and, 317–20, 335–36

death of, 335

Great Leap Forward, 229, 266, 317

Khrushchev and, 229–30, 251, 253, 262, 306

Little Red Book,
318

Liu Shikun and, 111–12

Nixon and, 329

Selected Works,
318

Soviet Union and, 59, 111, 126

Mao Zedong Thought Combat Team Revolutionary Committee General Service Station, 318–19

Marchand, Annie, 114

Marcos, Ferdinand and Imelda, 337, 343

Mariani, Adolfo, 69

Mars, Soviet attempt to reach, 277–78

Martha Baird Rockefeller Aid to Music Program, 108

Martin, Tom, 181, 182

Martin, Trudi, 133

Marxism-Leninism

Americans, as viewed by, 137

charade of, 350

on competition with bourgeois, 161

Conservatory’s weekly classes in, 57

Khrushchev on perversion of, 82, 83

Khrushchev’s belief in, 60, 84–85

Khrushchev’s meeting with Kennedy and, 279

orthodoxy about war, 86

Reagan’s declarations about, 348

triumph of communism and, 244, 245

youths raised with, 316

Marxist theory, classical, 229

Ma Sicong, 317, 319

Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century, 29

Mathis, James

at Billy Graham Crusade, 104

Browning and, 68

homosexuality of, 76

parties of, 42

Shetler and, 129

as Van’s friend, 32, 38, 70

Mathis, Johnny, 224, 363

Matsuura, Toyoaki, 139, 150, 158, 163

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 126

McCarthy, Joe, 29

McClain, Jack, 181

McLuhan, Marshall, 321

McNamara, Robert, 302

Me and Juliet
(Broadway musical), 74