Word: rachmaninoffs
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...strenuous six-day program in Manhattan. Such eminent musicologists as Yugoslavia's Dragan Plamenac, Denmark's Knud Jeppesen, Venezuela's Juan Lecuna, watched the Big Apple, the Lindy Hop, the Shag, drank what there was to drink. At the Savoy Ballroom, Bandmaster Erskine Hawkins swung Bach, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C Minor in their honor. The bolder musicologists ventured gingerly out on the floor, soon got limber...
...love 'em! God, I love 'em"), the hissing gibberish he talks to visiting Japanese dignitaries, his bounding glandular energy. To get a picture of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Smitty grabbed the royal thigh and held the Queen in her automobile. To get a picture of Rachmaninoff he played Chopsticks on the master's piano until he gave up and posed. To Schumann-Heink he said: "Show your teeth, mamma...
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...
When he is not on tour Rachmaninoff lives in seclusion, spends his winters in his Manhattan apartment, his summers on his Swiss estate. Once a year he gives Manhattanites a single Carnegie Hall recital from which thousands are invariably turned away. He has never played over the radio...
...permanent Russian refugee. A mournful-visaged, crop-headed aristocrat, who was dispossessed of his Russian estates by the revolution of 1917, he is even sicker of Russia's present government than of his besetting Prelude. Asked recently what kind of government would attract him back to Russia again, Rachmaninoff replied: "A better...