Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (88 page)

Van’s practice of, 42

“Widmung,” 71, 354

Schwartz, Harry, 328

Science Digest,
40

Scientific American,
40

Scriabin, Alexander, 109, 136, 265

SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), 348, 352

Second International Tchaikovsky Competition, 287, 298

Secret Speech.
See under
Khrushchev, Nikita

Selected Works
(Mao), 318

Semichastny, Vladimir, 232

Sequeira Costa, José Carlos de, 139, 148

Serebryakov, Pavel, 105

Serkin, Rudolf, 66, 67

Seven Sisters (Moscow), 125–26

Seventh Sonata (Prokofiev), 187

Shanghai Conservatory, 317

Shearer, Norma, 219

Shetler, Norman

at Tchaikovsky Competition, 129–30, 136, 139, 152

Van’s friendship with, 140

Van’s win and, 171, 172, 178

Shevardnadze, Eduard, 354, 357

Shook-Up Generation of New York, 316

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Central Committee’s judgment of, 231

Cheryomushki,
231

dacha at House of Creativity, 264

Kabalevsky and, 138

Leningrad Symphony,
11

as Organizing Committee head, 106

piece on Van in
Pravda,
179

Prokofiev and, 58

Rostropovich and, 141

Stalin and, 27–29

at supper at Thompsons’, 188

Symphony no. 5, 237

Symphony no. 13, 304

Tchaikovsky Competition and, 110, 116–17, 118, 119–20, 127, 129

Tchaikovsky Competition anticipation and, 115

at Tchaikovsky Competition award ceremony, 175

Van’s photo with, 236

at Van’s recital, 187

Shostakovich, Maxim, 188

Shreveport, Louisiana, 15–17, 64, 67, 70, 107–8, 225, 285

Shtarkman, Alexander, 360

Shtarkman, Naum

arrest and detention of, 232–33, 235, 266

after Cold War, 360

excused from first round of Tchaikovsky Competition, 133

in Tchaikovsky Competition, 149, 162, 163

Van’s friendship with, 130, 140, 189, 195

Van’s request that he visit America, 194

Van’s win and, 165, 171

“Silent Generation,” 74

Sinatra, Frank, 246, 286

Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students, 89, 91–94

Skouras, Spyros, 246–47

slyakot
(black sludge), 145

Smith, Tommy, 363–64

Sobolevsky, Rafael, 113

Sochi, Russia, 271

socialism, 57, 86, 94, 114, 180, 279, 316–17

socialist realism, 27, 94

“Someone to Watch Over Me” (Gershwin), 223

Sonata, Seventh (Prokofiev), 187

Sonata in B-flat Major (Schubert), 187

Sonata in B Minor (Chopin), 116, 117

Sonata in C Major, K. 330 (Mozart), 136

Sonata in E-flat Major (Mozart), 41–42

Sonata in G Major (Tchaikovsky), 145

“Song of India” (Rimsky-Korsakov), 29–30

The Song of the Forests
(Shostakovich), 29

South America, 109

South Pacific
(soundtrack), 223–24

Sovetskaya Kultura,
180, 195

Sovetskaya Muzyka,
331–32

Sovetsky Muzykant,
180, 254

Soviet Bloc, 81, 86–87, 111, 133, 230, 250

Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., 212, 242, 248–49

Soviet Institute of Transport Construction, 140

Soviet Ministry of Culture

Janis’s call to, 290–91

piano jury request to, 149

receptions of, 140, 177–78

search for native pianists, 112–13

Tchaikovsky Competition proposal, 94–95

on Van as Competition winner, 162

Van’s interpreter for (
See
Belayeva, Henrietta)

Van’s requests to, 184, 194

Van tracked down by, 289

Vlassenko and, 113, 162, 163

Soviet national anthem, 53, 86, 236, 333, 354

Soviet Union

Afghanistan invaded by, 348, 353

during Cold War, 26–30, 79

dissolution of, 359

at height of power, 59

Hitler’s invasion of, 8–9

International Exchange Program and, 81

musicians in U.S. from, 79–80

Nixon’s visits to, 329–33, 337

propaganda, 48, 93–94, 186–87, 191, 231, 261–62

Reagan and, 348

space race with U.S., 2, 96–99, 279, 303, 307, 325 (
See also sputniks
)

Stalin’s death and, 53–55

Tchaikovsky Competition and prestige of, 114

technological advances, 234, 241–42, 279

as U.S. ally in World War II, 11

youth of, 92–93

Space Age, 96–99

Spaso House, 270–71, 306, 330, 333, 362

Spicer, Allen and Hazel

Van as tenant of, 35, 36, 37

Van scolded by, 107

Van’s Leventritt award and, 68–69

Van’s relationship with, 45–46, 65–66

Van’s Tchaikovsky Competition win and, 167

Splitnik, 238

sputniks

Khrushchev’s boasting about, 99–100

launch site for, 258

space race and, 2, 98, 100–101, 123, 205, 279

Sputnik 1,
97–99, 100, 255

Sputnik 2,
99

Sputnik 3,
195

Stalin, Joseph

dinners of, 47, 49, 60, 61

funeral of, 55–58, 60

in Hollywood movies, 11

on Khrushchev, 60

Khrushchev’s speech about, 82–86, 111, 127

musicians attacked by, 26–28

nonaggression pact signed by, 19

saxophone banned by, 93

Shostakovich and, 27–29

stroke and death of, 47–53

successors of, 62

Terror, 54, 155, 327

Zhukov and, 61

Stalin, Svetlana, 51, 52

Stalin, Vasily, 51

Stalingrad, 54

Stalinism, 282, 304, 307

Starostin (Stalin’s head guard), 47, 48–49

Starr, Susan, 287

“Star-Spangled Banner,” 63, 324, 333, 341, 354, 364

Star Wars.
See
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Statue of Liberty, 244

St. Basil’s Cathedral, 18, 107–8, 119, 124–25, 126, 168

“Steal not away, O pierced heart,” 346

Stein, Gladys, 133

Steiner, Rudolf, 283

Steinway, Betty, 71, 103, 182

Steinway Centennial Award, 102

Steinway Hall, 37, 67, 79, 103, 202, 217, 223

Stern, Isaac, 256, 265–66, 270

The Steve Allen Show,
183, 214–15

Stewart, Jimmy, 353

St. George’s Hall, Kremlin, 177

stilyagi
(hipsters), 92–93, 316

Stokowski, Leopold, 45

St. Petersburg Conservatory, 7, 16, 45

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 348, 352

Stravinsky, Igor, 10–11, 29, 72, 79, 92

Suez Canal, 87, 88, 196

Sukhodrev, Viktor, 173, 174, 246–47, 275, 280, 290, 292–93

Sunday Daily News,
209

Supreme Soviet, 99–100, 259, 276

Swan Lake
(Tchaikovsky), 26, 94, 332–33

Sword Drill, 21

Symphony no. 6 (Tchaikovsky), 56–57

Symphony no. 13 (Shostakovich), 304

Symphony of the Air, 184, 201, 216

Szell, George, 66, 67

Talbot, Sammy, 17

Taneyev, Sergei, 145

Tarzan cult, 92

Tatum, Art, 38

Taubman, Howard, 221–22

Taylor, Elizabeth, 246

Tbilisi, Georgia, 270

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

at Carnegie Hall, 77

First Piano Concerto (
See
First Piano Concerto)

grave of, 189

museum-home of, 140, 186–87

popularity of, 224

Romanticism and, 3

Second Piano Concerto, 7

short story about, 5–8

Sonata in G Major, 145

statue of, 128, 131, 362

Swan Lake,
26, 94

Symphony no. 6, 56–57

Theme and Variations in F Major, op. 19, 137

Van’s love for, 36, 137

Van’s performances of, 137, 166, 315

violin concerto, 255

Vlassenko’s performance of, 163

Tchaikovsky Competition.
See
First International Tchaikovsky Competition; Second International Tchaikovsky Competition

Tchaikovsky disc, Van’s, 284, 360

Tchaikovsky Hall, 106, 290–91, 361

teach-in at University of Michigan, 322

Teatr,
262–63, 264

Teatro alla Scala (Milan), 292

Tebaldi, Renata, 344

Temple, Shirley, 245–46

Terror (Stalin’s), 54, 155, 327

Texas Club of New York, 207

Texas Hill Country, 311, 313

Texas Motor Speedway, 364

Texas Navy, 225

Texas State Music Contest, 25

Texas State Society, 212

Theme and Variations in F Major, op. 19 (Tchaikovsky), 137

“There’s No Piano in This House” (Monroe), 222

thermonuclear bombs.
See
hydrogen bombs

“The Void” (poem), 35

Thompson, Jane, 152, 172, 173, 247

Thompson, Llewellyn (Tommy)

at banquet for Khrushchev, 247

at Camp David with Khrushchev, 250–51

Cuban Missile Crisis and, 298, 299–300, 301, 302