# When the World Stopped to Listen

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- Book: [When the World Stopped to Listen](https://www.bookquiver.com/stuart-isacoff/when-the-world-stopped-to-listen) ([When the World Stopped to Listen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stuart-isacoff/when-the-world-stopped-to-listen.md))
- Authors: [Stuart Isacoff](https://www.bookquiver.com/stuart-isacoff)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-08-0417-023-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2018-03-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

April 1958: The Soviets were leading the space race, the Iron Curtain was at its heaviest, and the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow seemed certain to crown a hometown champion. But...