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culture is that so much as i can which of course he's right on example here. in the us elections the start of a brave new revolution or in evitable and destructive gridlock will anything get. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on our team album now and today my guest in the studio is alexandra de mar and you know russia is remembering the event that changed the life of millions of people in the country often tragical after the bolsheviks seize power in the revolution nine hundred seventeen many chose to leave the country among them was

a great russian composer said agape and his family emigrated to europe and later to the united states today we have the privilege to talk to the grandson of the great master alexander. the great russian composer so good of mine in the left the country after the bolshevik revolution he never forgave them and once even interrupted his concert in america when he saw a soviet ambassador among the audience his grandson alexander of mine enough was born in europe but speaks perfect russian he says it is the language of these family alexander establish the rick man in a foundation to promote the music of his grandfather these talented miners and last year a british survey supported alexander calling so good of my end of the greatest composer of the twentieth century.

hello mr rush money thank you very much for being with us on the show. well first of all i wanted to ask you as far as i know from from the history books your grandfather said to get a million of left russia in this of nine hundred seventeen cells with seventy five disability or so it was like two months maybe less after the revolution it's happened so why didn't he except the revolution why did he choose to leave. first he was invited by the king of sweden to play. christmas here the real reason because he had so. bad among his people who were working who but it told him but in forty years you have a group of persons who is coming to kill you and you did there was no. so

why he took his wife his children so it wasn't a coincidence there wasn't by chance it was a decision to leave he was leaving the country for good yes well it's estimated that up to two million people emigrated from russia after the revolution of nine hundred seventy spotlights you know the media has more in that. one thousand nine hundred seventeen revolution and russia wasn't only about change in the political system the communist ideology tended to penetrate all areas of life who fields of science could be declared. sciences as was the case with genetics as for art the only acceptable type of it was socially still realism thousands of intellectuals and artists who felt it impossible to play by the new rules chose to leave among the world celebrities of the time like on the part of us who is regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers artists like marc chagall obviously we can do

most enjoyed special privileges from the soviet authorities but eventually chose greater freedom offered by the west eager stravinsky was called a musical revolutionary but even the reputation of an artistic rebel could not reconcile him with the transformation of russia into the soviet union among poets and writers who flocked to europe was a von boon in the first russian also to get the nobel prize for which richer. one thousand nine hundred thirty three pre-revolutionary russian culture and way of life was something russian immigration was trying to preserve most artists never found themselves completely at home in paris or bromine in the style geopolitical times was so strong some of them chose to return home often facing the precious by the soviet authorities or finding out that something they missed was gone for a. house and you when you get

a minute of any family when they were leaving russia in december nine hundred seventeen did they realize that they would never come back again that they would never see that he was always telling what he didn't realize he didn't really know exists and he thought it was for a while one year three years four years but the save the same mistake was made for the second world war everybody was figured it was only for free weeks it was for four years is so difficult so so why because because he thought that he could come to peace with the bolsheviks or did he did expect be the boss of a christian to last so long. you know little about the subject ok now as far as i know manning of and his family's impression of the united states was rather mixed in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine is that right when he first visited this country but why did he decide to settle finally settled in

the united states in nineteen eighteen was it here in the eighteenth that eighteen years can you was the first advise it was for his famous prelude in c. sharp minor to call a u. haul it was in. no eight yes in his once. twenty years later he decided to settle in leader but he didn't really like the united states when he first went there is that true perhaps. afterwards he was very happy to be. he he even has bought a property about one hundred miles north of new york and. it's true to say it's real truth to say that he was sometimes like a man some days he was very happy sometimes he had. bad news or anything but normal life but any idea why why the u.s. because most of most of the russian intellectuals the russian elite settled in

europe and most of them in france some in germany but why did you choose choose the stables i think for the unity of pianist carnegie hall is number one. you know over statistic it's about one. the one thousand and that's not what it was. a chance to play in carnegie hall once in his life that's was alexander you were. ten years old when you give us money and died right if you like to make some substructure yes. ok now now do you do you remember do you still remember him alive did you miss him a lot yes of course really every summer we spent together for months so early this international pianist you know he spent from october to april in the states and in europe from may to october so you do have good challenge that's why

he had. this property of us what sort of things you must have not for one week that for two weeks but regular even for several months what kind of a person was he because you should have like childhood. recollection magical and never heard him in a bad mood never increasing she's voice always very flat or very kind with everybody. there's. he was a good grandfather i mean he was not only good grandfather he was a good bad with his wife never do all the scandals in africa. no quarrels no that's interesting. how strong was his nostalgia for russia was this was your family and now was it in a style that's of. absolutely self. invention

for the russian people really serious about for said. the group. the strad for attraction of a group they want to belong to this group he's happy if a group out of a group. that's very common rules everywhere so you want to say that that neither neither sort of get out of my you know the family we're not really nostalgic of russia perhaps sometimes you have to know your wonderful full moon of the stars you're out of there something like this everybody could have some nice but not like a general rule for ten years in vo half of life no that's not true so he was happy so he was happy happy with his life and with the way with the way he lived with this for so ok now but. i figure the best proof is the music because of music if you would be it would be refusing to use but he

has some more edgy. the second so it's only possible if you are. happy and you have so much positive positive creative if if he was so happy with this in your life and he in the new world why didn't he write anything for eight long years not only play he was only playing concerts but he didn't write anything. exactly my fanatically he compose five hundred eighty two works but it was in the first eight years but he has fifty percent fifty you take a pencil you may cross fifty percent was written out of russia and once more it's a propaganda it's a propagandist. take a piece of paper and you will have exactly fifty percent certain of the most famous

one who just a plate. number one audience into falls the night it was the reps of it so. that was the work who played the most of every. bribes we're told so it was the reps the reps it was not composed in moscow and not composed in separate it was composed it's with ok now. getting back to this to this estate in switzerland he had another one in the united states one in switzerland and again the official biographies of the miners say that he tried to rip reduce the state that he used to have in russia even of that is that perhaps i don't. see. he liked. to speak about all the music he makes. he make the design of a house so he like the to look after the. park

about the trees yes he has many kind of interests have you have this divide of can just does it look anything like this so we send the american steps or to not know what is there and if you have an example i have to tell you that you have a lady who can tell the figs which are. not true look at you and. she. open the door that's where your grandfather slept he was everybody knows he was one meter. to. bed was one. for calm all. for a small child she was looking at me she was even that they couldn't read color telling me such a big deal like says says alexander half minute after grandson allegedly composite said to get off my spotlight will be back shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview south stay with us then tell.

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back to spotlight on al gore and often just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is alexander rahmani not the grandson of a legendary composer say that i'm on the fire xander is also the director of the dot com line in the foundation mr kind of we started speaking about the years that was there to get us money and have spent abroad after he fled russia after the bolshevik revolution of nine hundred seventeen well was heat closely following the events in soviet russia and the soviet union was he interested in what was going on in the music and russian contemporary music what was in touch extremely extremely vivid interest. looking every day. you do over what he did in new york times yes i'm sure you know yes. yes but for him his visit was not allowed to play for until fifty three thousand nine hundred fifty free for

a reason he would have a little he was a very close look at this do you think that your family may have ever returned to live in russia once again if the communist regime had fallen in the thirty's forty's fifty's i don't live there now no you don't think so. ok now mentioning mentioning this social activity in the early for thirty's so you get a high enough alongside with solid leo tolstoy they signed they signed a letter. protesting against the repression oppressions in russia was he so really socially engaged person in general who she was helping very much with russian people. he made the check of one we shall have to speak to one million dollars of russians. yes yes he was helping many people and he and

he was politically active socially active so he wasn't the kind of a person you know he was interested only in music that was the last but so was exactly the country. as i told. you can buy a book you will over he's responsible for the creation of the copters you know what about a very popular story his relations with sikorsky tell me more about it that's interesting i know he supported sikorsky yes he was rigged cough it would work for like. for every day he saw. this guy is a russian he was right he was a russian he asked him to come to his table to have a coffee with him to to start. because i guess i'm preparing the machine which is to fly a vertical. so and finally he help him for free. response a breakfast lunch and bread for years until he's

a. copywriter for washed for his machine so it was sponsored. so the world the world should be or should be thankful to get out when the not only for the music you know but also for the relatives about. making a mountain to climb again you have siri every day one or two persons in this extraordinary machine. in. two thousand and seven there was a film a movie by pavel than being here in russia. i never saw you never saw him nobody told me that about but in this movie you may know that there is a scene. but i'll tell you there's a scene in the movie where sara get off my enough refuses to play in the carnegie hall and the presence of the soviet ambassador say i'm not going to pay what is it

true was the what was the true story like that or is it fiction. was told about this but it will do if it's true or not to know you don't know but maybe this is how it happened was he this kind of person he could be serious he could be was it because he hated the communists so much or he hated this specific person it could be very specific were you thinking whether he could have been the first he knew he didn't want to be in the home does it really matter do you think for for a person who likes to get one of the composer a pianist maestro who really is in the audience good. it was a. way to listen and the interesting. thing. i promised my producer i was going to be asking you this question but so i want to ask you. you keep saying in your interviews that romulus wasn't real the russian composer he

was only partly partly a russian composer is that true is this an accurate quote from what you say you are saying. that said that he's not hundred percent russian just not hundred percent russian no one also because if you are working one day do over a year ago but if you're working in the. united states for forty use of course some figure is coming in your brain and your body or you start to finger to speak differently of course yes it's absolute about italy with everybody so so so then we should say that for example. is one hundred percent russian right he's not so much involved in the states he was not working so much he was much more sitting in his room for its very influence of.

pop music in the self or for wall street you know what you had was wonderful songs and he was very fond you have even the table today if you go to where you this table were sitting mindful so if you are looking for such a music you have an influence if you like it you figure it differently you compose if you mentioned or when you have support for sikorsky did he did did he have close relationship with the rest of the russian immigration did he support anybody else or your spread yet you pledge for instance you know if you have a divorce wally with someone. you would do all your best to basically parry and he for that his brother was we really. was and he was paid to her so the little zero percent for until she died every month.

he was said to her mother for lady who was the wife of his brother just because he fought but his brother was wrong and validity was less so i support i've heard stories that he sent some help to the russian soldiers during the second world war through the red army and that and that the soldiers actually knew that this was bread and meat and wine from sarah get a one in and that they made a toast let's drink to composer of mine if there's a true or is the made up to do if a soldier told a. speech but that he was sending to help a soldier yes a lot yes yes yes and these were considerable amounts of money spent for those who for. it was a big body. there are enough money and of society

in many countries in the united kingdom in germany and in some other countries but you decided to set up a city get a whine a foundation write us why what was all of us what you stories. are using you have plenty of people who are trying to be close to walk by if for all purpose we are one to take profit from so to be on the sea in. the spotlight. but. for. zero cents of interest i'm doing that all of because i was considering that it was a big if not just for the level of music of my grandfather and a very ality and i touch wood it was i was right because to compare with ninety two we freeze the audience by one fails the said. by ted and

since he was elected. first position in office by englishman we received my sister's we have seventy we are receiving phone calls who became official the first phone call came seventy two hours afterwards from so very very nice lady who is responsible for the whole. proposal has to be relaxed yearly and we have much more first in fourteen me that free it took me free months to have the whole tube was to vids sali said so and elvis coming so completely different but i you are you happy with the attention that are mine in the music he just has today in russia or know less about russia but you. and i shall tell you to all i felt have to compare how is vote audience

reaction and over reaction look the most difficult people leave the us we made with the nice but truth. and we had hundreds even though all the journalists wrote that you had a thirty three years old upstairs and everybody was standing and applauding. and legs so for judy it's a really powerful so i have a look so you threw this question in forty eight. does make profit today sometimes and sometimes not depends and sometimes it's we just had three days of gala in paris. it was fully booked. if you go with another composer i have some parents who are asking me please could you help me and of course i know i shall not tell the names of course you know if i said yes to one man this man i shall not have more than forty percent of the whole to think it depends you know ok

thank you very much and i wish you all the success with what you do thank you much thank you thank you and just a reminder that my guest today was alexander rahman you know grandson of a legendary composer said here and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight well maybe you have someone in mind who you think i could interview next time please drop me a line i'll do not r.t. t.v. dot r.t. and we'll try to keep the show enter act and we'll be back with more than a comment on what's going on outside this country until then stay an hour to take a thank you but here i see.