Moscow Nights - Nigel Cliff
The Van Cliburn Story--How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
KORTE INHOUD
In 1958, an unheralded twenty-three-year-old piano prodigy from Texas named Van Cliburn traveled to Moscow to compete in the first International Tchaikovsky Competition. The Soviets had no intention of bestowing their coveted prize on an unknown American; a Soviet pianist had already been chosen to win. Yet when the gangly Texan with the shy grin took the stage and began to play, he instantly captivated an entire nation. The Soviet people were charmed by Cliburn's extraordinary talent, passion, and fresh-faced innocence, but it was his palpable love for the music that earned their devotion; for many, he played more like a Russian than their own musicians. As enraptured crowds mobbed Cliburn's performances, pressure mounted to award him the competition prize. "Is he the best?" Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev demanded of the judges. "In that case . . . give him the prize!" Adored by millions in the USSR, Cliburn returned to a thunderous hero's welcome in the United States and became, for a time, an ambassa...
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2017, 480pp, paperback in goede staat. [Auteur: Cliff, Nigel] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: HarperCollins Publishers Inc] [Jaar: 2017] [Titel: Moscow Nights / The Van Cliburn Story--How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War]
