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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tucked away between trees at the Cumberland Avenue end of World's Fair Park is a statue of Russian composer and pianist Sergei ...

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 ...

In the liminal space of a Beverly Hills garden, the spirit of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff examines his life as his corporeal body dies upstairs. This is the world of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first sounds I heard after arriving at Philip Glass’ townhouse in Manhattan’s then-bohemian East Village to interview the ...

Dan Prior as Rachmaninoff talks about his writer's block with Aimee Doherty as his therapist in "Preludes" at Lyric Stage Company of Boston. (Courtesy Mark S. Howard) Sergei Rachmaninoff’s mind is ...

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 ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra is pulling out the stops to celebrate the 150th birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff. The Russian-American composer who was born into Russian aristocracy had a singular ...

I want to say a special word about Dave Malloy’s “Preludes,” because it is the work of an artist who is not afraid to try things, or to create worlds that haven’t necessarily been seen before, and, ...

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