Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cymbal. And must we have another crude cymbal roll when Brutus runs on his sword? As a background to the aura of death at Philippi, Susa has also introduced on the harp an ostinato pattern from the Dies irae plainchant, which recalls the identical ostinato near the end of Rachmaninoff's tone-poem Isle of the Dead. At any rate, I suspect that even Sousa would have done better than Susa
...Cellist Gregor Piatagorsky is wrong. Sergei Rachmaninoff [May 13] did take students. One of them was the well-known pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, who describes her lessons with Rachmaninoff in her book Forbidden Childhood. As a teacher, he was apparently a painstaking technician who, after lessons, served his student tea in a glass...
...best thing a musician can possibly do after he has acquired a great deal of experience," says Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, "is to pass it on to younger musicians. So many people are now gone-Kreisler, Toscanini, Rachmaninoff-who never had students. This is a great loss." It is also a sad fact that few celebrated performers have much interest in teaching-and fewer still have any talent for it (Rachmaninoff, for example, was a dour, retiring man, hardly cut out to be the Mr. Chips of the keyboard). Fortunately for a few lucky cellists, however, Piatigorsky, 61, has both...
...last movement he arrives at the end four measures ahead of the orchestra. The audience roars its affection for the impatient pianist; it is the beginning of a lifelong affair. Even the crusty Beecham cracks a smile. Paderewski calls Horowitz the best of the younger generation. Rachmaninoff and Ravel applaud...
...inevitable revolt against such excesses was led by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Josef Hofmann and Artur Schnabel...