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russia, america, and tchaikovsky are greatly intertwined. get this-- piano concerto no. 1 (the same composition that would later be played at the tchaikovsky piano competition in 1958 by van cliburn) would first debut in BOSTON.
I imagine they were both in attendance for the debut and it greatly impacted them. not only because it's tchaikovsky, but because they were secretly courting.
this could explain why they reacted so passionately to van cliburn at the moscow observatory.
rusame fiends... I have just found out that tchaikovsky performed at the inauguration of carnegie hall in 1891