TY - BOOK AU - Cliff,Nigel TI - Moscow nights: the Van Cliburn story : how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War SN - 9780062333179 (pbk.) AV - ML 417 C636C 2017 U1 - 786.2092 PY - 2017/// CY - New York, NY PB - Harper Perennial, KW - Cliburn, Van, KW - Cliburn, Van, KW - Pianists KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Pianistas KW - Estados Unidos KW - Biografías KW - Music and diplomacy KW - Foreign relations KW - Soviet Union KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - Unión Soviética KW - Unión soviética N1 - Originally published : HarperCollins, 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; First movement: sognando. The prodigy ; Room 412 ; The successor ; Van Cliburn Days ; The secret speech ; The red moon -- Second movement: volante. To Russia, with love ; "Vanya, Vanyusha!" ; "We are in orbit" ; "American Sputnik" ; The last romantic ; "He played the piano and the world was his" ; "He's better than Elvis by far!" ; In the heat of the kitchen ; Khrushchev in the capitalist den ; Back in the USSR ; Sole diplomacy ; Endgame -- Third movement: pianoforte. America's pianist ; Great expectations ; The summit -- Coda N2 - A dramatic account of the life of Cold War pianist Van Cliburn describes his early years as a musical prodigy in Texas and the ways he charmed both American and Russian audiences, helping to ease tensions between the two nations.--Publisher's description. 505 0 $a ER -