Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devoured life with all the resources of his huge frame. As this was an expensive business, Chaliapin greatly resented being asked to give his services gratis. "Only little birds sing for nothing," he loved to say. But nothing pleased him more than to phone his friend, Pianist Rachmaninoff, and invite him to an all-night session of duets. One night when Chaliapin was in his cups, he fixed Bunin with a beady eye, and saying, "I think, Vanusha, that you are very tight indeed," humped him on to his back and carried him up five flights of stairs...
Died. Natalie Satin Rachmaninoff, 70, widow of the late pianist-composer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...