by Nigel Cliff
Van’s request that he visit America, 194
Van’s win and, 164–65, 171
Middle East, 87
MiG warplanes, 234, 258, 294, 296, 301–2
Mikhailov, Nikolai, 152, 164, 175, 180
Mikoyan, Anastas
Beria and, 60
Cuban Missile Crisis aftermath and, 302–3
at Kennedy’s funeral, 306
Khrushchev and, 90, 259, 307
praise for, 233
Stalin’s death and, 51, 53, 54–55
U.S. visit, 233–35
Van’s cable to, 289
Van’s second visit to Russia and, 269, 270–71, 272
Van’s win and, 173, 178
wife’s death, 303
Mikoyan, Artem, 234
Mikoyan, Aschen, 270, 272, 331, 361, 362, 365
Mikoyan, Ella, 269–70, 271–72, 361
Mikoyan, Stepan, 269
Ming Tombs reservoir, 229
missile gap, 278
Mississippi University for Women, 341
Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 67, 70, 145
Mohr, Franz, 351
Moiseyev Dance Company, 86
Mollova, Milena, 149, 163
Molotov, Vyacheslav “Iron Butt”
Beria and, 59–60
Bulganin mistaken for, 178
Khrushchev plotted against by, 89, 90, 91
Khrushchev’s power and, 62, 85
Stalin’s death and, 51–52, 54–55, 57
Momism, 76
Monroe, Marilyn, 79, 180, 245, 247, 321
Monroe, Vaughn, 222
Moolah Temple brass band, 218
moon landing, 325
Moor, Paul
fear of arrest, 178
at Richter’s recital with Van, 187
at Tchaikovsky Competition finals, 152
Van’s commonalities with, 151
Van’s confession to, 193, 199
as Van’s unofficial manager, 171
on Van’s victory tour, 189
Moscow, Russia
Chinese pianists sent to, 112
descriptions of, 125–28, 143–44
landscape, 123
music competition in (See First International Tchaikovsky Competition)
Prokofiev’s funeral in, 58
Stalin’s death and, 53, 55–58, 60
Van’s arrival in, 123–26
of Van’s imagination, 153
Van’s visits to, 1–3
World Festival of Youth and Students in, 91–94
Moscow Conservatory
Feinberg at, 112
gay witch hunt at, 232–33
graduates of, 33, 107, 108
Great Hall of, 106, 130, 134, 146, 165, 290, 331
Richter at, 57
Rubinstein brothers and, 45
Russia’s pride in, 106
Tchaikovsky as professor at, 5, 95, 108, 128
Van’s arrival at, 128
Vlassenko’s career at, 360
Moscow Kremlin
aged leaders in, 350
artists hauled into, 304
fronts for, 91
Hurok’s plan for recital at, 256
Khrushchev’s rocket program and, 88
meeting before Stalin’s death at, 51–52
Palace of Congresses, 172–73, 282, 292
reconstruction of cities and, 59
Stalin at, 26
telephone hotline with White House, 305
Truman and, 39
Van investigated in, 167
Van’s first view of, 126
Van’s reception at, 172–74
Van’s wish to see, 18–19, 26, 119
Vietnam War and, 315
White House relations with, 288
“Moscow Nights” (song)
on hotel balcony, 362
at Mikoyans’ apartment, 269
played at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 339
played at Soviet Embassy reception, 234
played at Soviet exhibition, 236
played at the White House, 357, 358
played at Van’s funeral, 365
played in Great Hall, 267–68
Teatr journalist and, 264
Van’s improvised version of, 194–95
as winner of festival song contest, 93
Moscow Olympics (1980), 348
Moscow Philharmonic, 361, 362
Moscow Radio, 186, 326
Moscow River, 292
Moscow State Symphony, 150–51, 176, 194, 255
Moscow State University, 192
Moscow University, 93
Moskva, 289
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
back in favor, 30
Liu Shikun’s performance of, 111
Requiem Mass, 103
Sonata in C Major, K. 330, 136
Sonata in E-flat Major, 41–42
Tchaikovsky Competition and, 109
Van’s performances of, 65, 67, 69, 136, 139, 324
Munger, Mrs. Stephen I., 64
Murrow, Edward R., 216
music as common ground, 4, 11
Music Panel, 80–81, 105, 108–9, 182, 218
mutual assured destruction (MAD), 305
My Favorite Chopin, 322
Nabokov, Nicolas, 28–29
Nagy, Imre, 196
NASA, 100, 259
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 87, 196
National Defense Education Act, 100
National Guild of Piano Teachers, 225
National Hotel, 289, 290, 294, 316, 331, 361
National Symphony, 300
NATO, 87, 230, 250
Neuhaus, Heinrich, 57, 133, 138, 155, 158, 176, 265
Neuhaus, Zinaida, 265
New Haven, Connecticut, 224
Newsome, C. L., 24
New York City
in 1951, 37–39
conductors’ battle in, 11
Khrushchev’s visits to, 244–45, 274–77
parade for Van (1958), 1
Rachmaninoff in, 8–10
Tchaikovsky’s visit to, 7–8
Van’s arrival from Russia, 199–202
New York City Ballet, 298
New York City Fire Department, 206, 207
New York Coliseum, 236, 237
The New Yorker, 208–9, 236–37
New York Herald Tribune, 210
New York Philharmonic
Leventritt Competition and, 66
Lewisohn Stadium, 219
State Department-sponsored tour, 237
Van as conductor for, 283–84
Van’s performances with, 70–71, 101, 183, 341
New York Police Department (NYPD), 220, 274
New York Times
Arts as Bridges editorial, 167
on Bolshoi Ballet in America, 298
on Boston Symphony in Russia, 86
Johnson and, 323
at Khrushchev’s death, 328
on Mikoyan’s reception at Soviet embassy, 234
on Nixon’s trip to Soviet Union, 332
Robert Lowell’s invitation decline, 313
Secret Speech published in, 85
on Soviet youth apathy, 316
on spring thaw in Moscow, 231
Tchaikovsky Competition publicized in, 117
Van in Brussels and, 221–22
Van’s Leventritt victory and, 161
on Van’s patriotism, 324
Van’s return to U.S. and, 200–201
on Van’s second visit to Russia, 268
Van’s Tchaikovsky Competition win and, 166
New York World-Telegram and Sun, 71
Nikolaevna, Olga, 345
1960 presidential election, 278
Niven, David, 246
Nixon, Richard
at American National Exhibition, 237–40
Kennedy’s victory over, 278
Khrushchev’s U.S. visit and, 241
Kitchen Debate, 239–40, 250, 329
Republican nomination clinched by, 323
visits to Soviet Union, 329–33, 336–37
visit to China, 329
Watergate and resignation, 339
“Nostalgia” (Cliburn), 187, 216
Novak, Kim, 246–47
Novodevichy Cemetery (Moscow), 58, 326
nuclear arms race, 260, 305, 325, 333, 348, 351–52, 358
nuclear weapons. See also atomic bombs; Cuban Missile Crisis; hydrogen bombs
Eisenhower and, 252, 278–79
Gorbachev and, 358
Khrushchev and, 196, 245, 252, 281–83, 288–89, 352
Reagan and, 352, 358
USSR detonation of, 98
Nureyev, Rudolf, 280
Nurmukhamedova, Saida, 192
Oborin, Lev, 133, 139, 166
O’Bryan, Sirrildia, 15
O’Bryan, Solomon, 19
O’Bryan, William Carey, 15
Ogdon, John, 287, 347
Ogonyok, 204
Oistrakh, David, 56, 79, 132
Oldham, Denver, 133
Operation Mongoose, 296
Order of Friendship, 364
Ormandy, Eugene, 79, 335
Osborne Apartment House, 77–78, 217, 223, 254–55, 285
Ostankino Television Technical Center, 272
Outstanding Young American Pianists (OYAPs), 102
Paganini, Niccolò, 324
Palace of Culture, 289
Pale of Settlement, 44–45
Palisades Park, 75
parade for Van in NYC, 1, 206–10
Paris Summit, 250, 251–52, 258, 260–61, 262
Partita in E Minor (Bach), 42
Pasternak, Boris, 62, 231–32, 237, 265
Pavlova, Anna, 256
Peking Hotel (Moscow), 126–27, 128, 131, 150–51, 164–65, 182
People’s Daily, 229, 319, 334
People’s Liberation Army, 317
People-to-People Program, 108
perestroika, 351, 359
Peters, Roberta, 256–57, 265–66, 267, 270, 330, 331–32, 362
Peterson, Oscar, 38
Petrov, Nikolai, 297
Petrushka (Stravinsky), 79
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 210–11, 224
Philadelphia Orchestra, 79, 218, 335
Philharmonic Society of New York, 7
Philippines, 276, 337–38
Piano Concerto no. 1 (Liszt), 313
Piano Concerto no. 1 (Tchaikovsky). See First Piano Concerto (Tchaikovsky)
Piano Concerto no. 2 (Brahms), 267
Piano Concerto no. 2 in A Major (Liszt), 163
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor (Rachmaninoff), 72
Piano Concerto no. 3 (Prokofiev), 255, 267, 283–84, 289
Piano Concerto no. 3 (Rachmaninoff), 10, 109–10, 204, 284
Piano Sonata (Barber), 146, 147
Pierre Hotel (NYC), 200, 202, 215, 217, 338
Plaza Hotel, 236–37
Plisetskaya, Maya, 303
Podgorny, Nikolai, 333
Politburo, 2–3, 51
Pollack, Daniel
Eisenhower’s mention of, 186
in first Tchaikovsky Competition, 109, 114, 129, 133–34, 147, 163
Frankel’s mention of, 160
Moscow Radio and, 186
as new Juilliard student, 43
Richter and, 149
supper at Thompsons’ and, 188
Pollack, Noemi, 129, 134
Polonaise in A-flat Major, op. 53 (Chopin), 132
Poulson, Norris, 247
Powers, Barbara, 273
Powers, Gary, 257–59, 265–66, 273
Prague Spring, 316
Pravda
on America and Britain, 48
on Doctor Zhivago, 231
Frankel and, 159
on Khrushchev in Washington, 242
on Khrushchev’s death, 328
Shostakovich on Van in, 179
on Tchaikovsky Competition, 115
on Van in We Will Meet Again, 272
Pravda Ukrainy, 295
Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Minor (Bach), 136
Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp Minor (Taneyev), 145
Presidium of the Central Committee
attempt to oust Khrushchev, 89–90
Beria removed from, 61
Cuban Missile Crisis and, 301
Khrushchev’s changes in, 85
Khrushchev’s retirement and, 306–7
Khrushchev’s slashing of armed forces and, 252
members at Stalin’s funeral, 57–58
Stalin replacement of Politburo with, 51
Presley, Elvis
in U.S. Army, 120
Van compared to, 189, 206, 209, 224, 225, 269, 283, 340
Price, Leontyne, 344, 348
Project Dragon Lady, 257
Prokofiev, Lina, 27, 58, 267
Prokofiev, Sergei
Central Committee’s judgment of, 231
death of, 58
defection to U.S., 10
at House of Creativity, 264
Piano Concerto no. 3, 255, 267, 283–84, 289, 324
Richter’s performance of, 187
Romeo and Juliet, 236
Rostropovich and, 141
Seventh Sonata, 187
Shtarkman’s performance of, 146
Stalin’s turning on, 26–27
Van’s performances of, 65, 72
Van’s study of, 42
Pryor, “Cactus,” 311
psychological warfare, 80, 86, 221
Putin, Vladimir and Mrs., 363–64
Queen Elisabeth Competition, 113, 130–31
R-7 rockets, 87, 99, 257, 258
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
choir singing of, 362
Concerto no. 3 in D Minor, 154
death of, 33
Don Cossacks and, 9–10
“Étude-Tableau” op. 33 in E-flat Minor, 134, 136
“Étude-Tableau,” op. 39, no. 5., 154
favorite piano of, 37
grave of, 193, 216–17
in Los Angeles, 11
in New York City, 9–10
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, 72
Piano Concerto no. 3, 10, 109–10, 204, 284, 363
popularity of, 224
Rildia Bee and, 15–17, 107–8, 110
Romanticism and, 3
short story about, 8–10
Shreveport visit, 16–17, 70
Tchaikovsky Competition and, 109
Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and, 8
as Van’s hero, 18, 19, 36, 255
Van’s performances of, 72, 136–37, 154–55, 162–63, 165–66, 179, 183, 192, 215, 223, 300, 315, 324
Van’s request for prize in name of, 194
radiation threats, 72–73
Radio Free Berlin Symphony, 283
Radio Moscow, 300, 302, 350
Random Harvest (film), 344
Rangerettes (Kilgore), 63, 218, 225
Ravel, Maurice, 69, 71–72
Rayburn, Sam, 249, 313
RCA Victor, 168, 223–24
Reagan, Nancy, 351, 353, 354, 356, 357, 358, 363
Reagan, Ronald, 245, 348, 350, 351–58
Red Army, 86–87
Red Detachment of Women (Chinese ballet), 332–33
Red Guards, 317, 318–19
Red Queen. See Elisabeth, Queen of Belgium
Red Scare, 29–30, 73–74, 263, 266–67
Red Square (Moscow)
1936 show trials, 84
GUM (State Department Store), 144
Khrushchev watching troops in, 196
as oversize funeral parlor, 350
Stalin’s funeral, 57
Van’s first view of, 126
Van’s visits to, 289, 361
Reid, Lillian, 151
Reiner, Fritz, 284
Reisenberg, Nadia, 67
Requiem Mass (Mozart), 103
Reuben’s (NYC), 108, 215
revisionism, Soviet, 111, 2
29, 282, 318
Reykjavik, Iceland, 351–52
Rhapsody in G Minor (Brahms), 336
Rhapsody on a Theme (Paganini), 324
Rhodes, Nola, 102
Richter, Sviatoslav
gay witch hunt and, 232–33
Gilels compared to, 79
Mikhailov on, 180
Mozart and, 136
at Pasternak’s funeral, 265
on piano jury, 106, 133, 137–39, 148–49, 152, 155, 158, 163
Prokofiev’s death and, 58
recital given by, 187, 198
Shetler and, 130
Stalin’s death and funeral and, 55, 56–57
at supper at Thompsons’, 188
Tchaikovsky Competition anticipation and, 115
U.S. tour by, 278
Van’s admiration for, 263
Rildia Bee O’Bryan Cliburn Organ, 362
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, 29–30
Rio de Janeiro International Piano Competition, 105
The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky), 29
Robin Hood Dell, 315
Rodgers, Richard, 208
Rodzinkski, Beth, 361
Romanticism. See Russian Romanticism
Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev), 236
“Rondo” (Kabalevsky), 116, 148, 154
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 8
Rostropovich, Mstislav (Slava), 141, 349, 353, 364
Rostropovich, Olga, 365
Rubinstein, Anton, 7, 16, 25, 41, 44–45, 158, 254
Rubinstein, Arthur, 11, 256
Rubinstein, Nikolai, 5–6, 7, 44–45, 153
Rusk, Dean, 298
Russia and Russians
as allies, 74
American bond with, 224
love for Van during Cold War, 1–3
love-hate relationship with U.S., 3–4
pride in Tchaikovsky, 106
Stalinist, 27–30
Van’s continued communication with, 287–88
Russian Jews, 44–45
Russian Revolution, 10–11, 26–27, 33, 99–100
Russian Romanticism
Anton Rubinstein and, 7
music out of fashion, 30
Rildia Bee and, 25
Rosina Lhévinne as link to, 33–34, 41–42
Van’s love and embodiment of, 34, 123, 137, 157–58, 176
Ruza River, 264–65
Saerchinger, César, 108
Salisbury Hotel, 285, 341, 342
SALT 1 agreement, 333
Salyut 1, 325
Samaroff, Olga, 45
Sanders, Donna, 74–75, 182, 198
San Francisco, California, 247–48
Satterwhite, Dottie, 344
Scali, John, 300, 302
Scarlatti, Domenico, 72
Scarsdale, New York, 224
Schiller, Madeline, 7
Schubart, Mark
angry letter to, 234
homosexuality of, 76
at Tchaikovsky Competition, 147–48, 166, 168
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and, 297
Van’s impression on, 64–65
Van’s return to U.S. and, 203
Van selected for Tchaikovsky Competition and, 108–9, 117, 118, 119
Schubert, Franz, 30, 71, 187
Schuman, Bill