RACHMANINOFF TIRED
Serge Rachmanioff, the 66-year-old Russian composer and pianist, wants to insure the hands which have made him famous. But no company will give him “ cover.” He is now in London, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of his first English performance. He still practises the piano for three hours a day. “ I am so tired that I have had to reduce my concerts from about one hundred to seventy a year, and I have temporarily given up composing,” he said. “ I never teach music, because my wife tells me I am a bad teacher. I prefer jazz to socalled ‘ good modern music.’ I appreciate Elgar, Arnold Bax, and Sibelius, but the last great composers were Strauss and Debussy. Fokine has been experimenting with creating a ballet to some of my music. The composer admitted that he does not like playing his famous Prelude in C sharp minor, which is known to every amateur pianist. “ I wrote five others which'! much prefer.” he said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 15
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