{"id":4918,"date":"2016-05-16T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2016-05-16T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T23:25:36","slug":"a-simple-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4918","title":{"rendered":"A simple request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humorists Ilf and Petrov described a concert by Rachmaninoff In New York (November 1935):<\/p>\n

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The night we went to hear him he appeared tall, bent, and thin, with a long sad face, his hair closely clipped; he sat down at the piano, separated the folds of his old-fashioned back swallowtail, adjusted one of his cuffs with his large hand and turned to the audience.\u00a0 His expression seemed to say: “Yes, I am an unfortunate exile and obliged to play before you for your contemptible dollars, and for this humiliation i ask very little – silence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cited in: Bertensson, Sergei & Leyda, Jay (2001) Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in music.<\/em>\u00a0 Bloomington: Indianna University Press, p.315.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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