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...citizens who stay away from concerts, the best-known high-brow composer now living is probably Russian-born Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff. His crashing Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, first introduced to the U. S. in 1898 by his friend Pianist Alexander Siloti, immediately started to outsell Tin Pan Alley's song hits, has rolled up a total of some 5,000,000 copies. In 1909, when 36-year-old Rachmaninoff made his U. S. debut as a concert pianist, the "Flatbush* Prelude," as it was then known, had made his exotic name familiar to U. S. lips...
While it is his ubiquitous Prelude in C-Sharp Minor that has won Rachmaninoff his fame with the public, discriminating concertgoers have long rated him as one of the two greatest living pianists. (The other: Polish-born Josef Hofmann...
...Lorraine" Ganne *Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai *Minuet (for strings) Boccherini *"Carmen" Fantasia Bizet *"La Source," Ballet Suite Delibes Scarf Dance--Love Scene--Variation Circassian Dance *Mediation from "Thias" Massenet Solo Violin: Julius Theodorowicz *Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninoff *Cheyenne Indian War Dance Skilton...
Twenty-seven years ago a lean, gloomy Russian with a long face and convict haircut heard his Prelude in C-sharp Minor crash across the U. S. on a thousand pianos and make him famous. Long before that time Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff had been charming Europe with his brooding, regretful compositions, bewildering concertgoers with his speed and skill on the piano. But one ambition, to write a great symphony, he had not achieved. His First Symphony, in 1897, fell so flat that he needed a hypnotist to restore his nerve. His Second, in 1908, fared better, was praised...
...Entrance of the Gladiators"Fucik *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendolssohu *Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninoff *Fantasia. "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagnt *Ballet Suite. "La Source" Delibes Scarf Dance--Love Scene Variation--Circassian Dance *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet Violin solo: Julius Theodorowicz *Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg" Wagner *"Roberta," Selection Kern *"Espana' 'Waltzes Waldteufel *"Procession of the Sardar" Ippolitov-Ivanov Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square