[MinuteGal]

What caught my eye in the clippings above was the notice that Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was performing at Carnegie Hall in recital.

What a storied life this great composer/pianist lived!

He was born into a noble Tatar family. He was a student of Tchaikovsky. His life spanned the tsarist years plus the Russian Revolution which drove him impoverished from his homeland to Switzerland, then to the U.S. where he gave concerts to support his family. (His wife was his cousin which created a sensation in the late 1800's).

Thanks, Homer.....this little blurb has inspired me to pay a visit to Borders to see if they have a good biography of the life and times of a musical legend. To think many freepers were alive during his final years is awesome as we're prone to think famous classical composers were extinct like dinosauers before we were born.

Rachmanioff's music will endure because it's beautifully musical and skillfully written.

Leni

[Homer_J_Simpson]

What caught my eye in the clippings above was the notice that Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was performing at Carnegie Hall in recital.

Tomorrow's main thread includes a review of the Carnegie Hall performance. He only played one of his own compositions. He also did Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, and Chopin. An accompanying article covers Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's "Coriolanus" overture and the fifth and sixth symphonies. I hope New Yorkers appreciated what they had back then.