Van Cliburn during a ticker tape parade in New York after winning the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958. File / NYT The Cold War wasn't all bad, all spy planes and nuclear tests and ...

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In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, a gangly young Texan with an impressive mop of blond curls and an aw-shucks manner traveled to the Soviet Union to take part in the first International ...

Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story—How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War. By Nigel Cliff. Harper; 452 pages; $28.99. To be published in Britain in November; £20. ONE night in April 1958 ...

Cliff brilliantly weaves together the politics, personalities, and pianism surrounding the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. This portrait of a Cold War moment focuses on ...