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 ...

Get ready for a night of high drama and virtuosic sparkle! CPR Classical presents Rachmaninoff’s "Rhapsody on a Theme of ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Featuring Rachmaninoff’s most beautiful music including the Second Piano Concerto, the Paganini Variations, Preludes, and Symphonic Selections, Rachmaninoff And The Tsar, will have Felder in the role ...

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 ...