Word: rachmaninoff
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...took refuge where he was most comfortable, at the piano, playing Chopin mazurkas. Wanda listened with a fascination that grew in intensity as, over the next few months, she heard him in both New York and Italy. At Milan's La Scala, Horowitz performed his signature concerto, the Rachmaninoff Third. "Then he came to visit my father, and, as they say, I was swept off my feet." They were married in December 1933 in Milan. She knew no Russian, he no Italian, so they spoke French, the language they use at home to this...
...years to hear Horowitz," said Nadia Tsiganova, who had stayed in line all night to get her ticket. "He is magnificent." Yuri, a young soldier on his way to Afghanistan, exclaimed reverently, "I will carry the memory of this afternoon with me always." Reviewing the program of Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin, Critic Dmitri Bashkirov wrote in Sovietskaya Rossiya, "He indisputably remained the brightest bearer of the Russian performing tradition. I think there was not one person in the hall who didn't leave the concert in a happy, elevated mood." After watching on TV back...
...thin crust of official coolness often melted, however, notably at the conclusion of a Horowitz press conference at the Conservatory's Rachmaninoff Hall. There, hardened Soviet journalists shouldered one another aside in their frenzy to get autographs. "Sign en Russe," reminded Wanda, overseeing the impromptu session. And when Horowitz emerged from the conference, he was confronted by a horde of fresh-faced music students eager to get a glimpse of the master. "It is very important to us for him to have a big success," said one girl through her tears...
Harvard’s premier all-female choir presents their spring concert, dubbed “Sacred Works and Folk Songs.” Conducted by Katherine Fitzgibbon, the choir will sing works by Rachmaninoff, Lasso, Dienes, Byrd, and Jameson Marvin (Harvard’s Director of Choral Activities). Many pieces in the performance will also be performed by the group in South Africa this summer. The performance also includes selections by the Cliffe Notes, the Choral Society’s acappella subgroup. Tickets $14 regular, $7 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall...
...poignancy of Stafford's music about a woman's remorse over her lover's death changed everything. Its message was so potent; it overpowered the richness of Rachmaninoff and tapped into my adolescent yearnings of love and loss. Hearing its poetic, antique lyrics made me sit up and say, "That's what I want to do: tell stories with my music." It was like hitting a vein of gold...