Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction
Philip Ross Bullock
Permissions and Credits
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Dating
MOSCOW AND MODERNITY
Reading the Popular Pessimist: Thought, Feeling, and Dance in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Narrative
Peter Franklin
Sergei Rachmaninoff and Moscow Musical Life
Rebecca Mitchell
Love Triumphant: Rachmaninoff’s Eros, the Silver Age, and the Middlebrow
Marina Frolova-Walker
Rachmaninoff and the “Vocalise”: Word and Music in the Russian Silver Age
Philip Ross Bullock
THREE OPERAS
Tchaikovsky’s Echoes, Chaliapin’s Sobs:
Aleko, Rachmaninoff, and the Contemporary
Emily Frey
Rachmaninoff’s
Miserly Knight (On Money, Honor, and the Means to Create)
Caryl Emerson
Burning for You: Rachmaninoff’s
Francesca da Rimini Simon Morrison
NEW WORLDS
Rachmaninoff and the Celebrity Interview: A Selection of Documents from the American Press
Selected and Edited by Philip Ross Bullock
The Eighteenth Variation
Steve Swayne
“One of the Outstanding Musical Events of All Time”: The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1939 Rachmaninoff Cycle
Christopher H. Gibbs
“The Case of Rachmaninoff”: The Music of a White Emigré in the USSR
Marina Raku, translated by Jonathan Walker
Aesthetic Ambition and Popular Taste: The Divergent Paths of Paderewski, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff
Leon Botstein
Index
Notes on the Contributors
