April 1st is Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birth anniversary and his legacy is still up for discussion in some circles. At the heart of those discussions is the idea of "what makes a composer great?" ...

Yevgeny Sudbin and Scott Yoo explain the premise behind Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on Paganini” and then perform the piece. This is really one of his most famous things. Actually, Rachmaninoff borrowed ...

Tucked away between trees at the Cumberland Avenue end of World's Fair Park is a statue of Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, a man with seemingly no connection to Knoxville. As it ...

Using an Ampico piano scroll, Scott Yoo watches Rachmaninoff play his “Prelude on C# Minor.” This is an Ampico Recording, Preludes C-sharp Minor by Rachmaninoff, played by the composer. Played by the ...

“Only the anachronism has a chance to outlast the epoch,” the Austrian author Franz Werfel wrote, in the early nineteen-forties. At a time of dizzying cultural change, Werfel saw a hidden advantage in ...

The first sounds I heard after arriving at Philip Glass’ townhouse in Manhattan’s then-bohemian East Village to interview the composer in 1993 were extraordinary. Glass happened to be in his kitchen ...

Lecturer in Piano, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney The 1917 Russian Revolution was, to many, a calamitous social and ideological experiment on an unprecedented scale. As the ...

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC) will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder for a limited engagement of “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar ...

Rachmaninoff came to London in 1938 and is here pictured at the Piccadilly Hotel Ahead of a BBC Four tribute to composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, a BBC music journalist explains why his music continues to ...

The question of assimilation has been on my mind a lot lately. Living in this great country where individuality is embraced, our current obsession with assimilation for those choosing the U.S. as ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff gave his last performance in Knoxville in February 1943. He died several weeks later. Sculptor Victor Bokarov paid homage to Rachmaninoff's last performance with a statue, but it ...