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in london a person dies in british custody each week at not a single officer has ever banker. the murder or manslaughter. torture talk of the u.s. gets a grilling at the u.n. human rights council for the first time washington was challenged to close guantanamo bay prison and conduct inquiries into allegations of abuse by u.s. troops. on the power of pretty good looking girls or adding our veteran presenters at some u.s. news outlets as channel scramble for ratings and hard times for the industry. the eve of the anniversary of the bolshevik revolution of nine hundred seventeen al gore talks to the grandson of the great russian composer who like many others fled the country at that turbulent time interview program spotlight with ghastly zenner mine enough coming your way shortly.

wealthy british style. that's not on. the. market why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on our. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on r t m l going on and today my guest in the studio is alexander martin. remembering the event that changed the life of millions of people in the country often tragical after the bolsheviks seize power and the revolution nine hundred seventeen many chose to leave the country among them was a great russian composer said again. 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 said 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 his family alexander established the rick man in a foundation to promote the music of his grandfather his talented maya's and last year a british survey supported alexander calling so get out of mind of the greatest composer of the twentieth century. hello mr rahmani 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 to russia in december of nine hundred seventeen south with seventeen for disability or so it was like two months maybe less after the revolution it's happened so why didn't he accept the revolution why did he choose to leave. first he was invited by a king of sweden to play. christmas here the real reason because he had so. bad among his people who were working who told him but if. 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 it wasn't by chance it was a decision to leave he was leaving the country for good yes it's well it's estimated that up to two million people emigrated from russia after the revolution of nine hundred seventeen spotlights you know the media has more in that. one thousand nine hundred seventeen revolution and russia wasn't on their change in the political system the communist ideology tended to penetrate all areas of life who fields of science could be declared bush lawsuit or sciences as was the case with genetics as for art the only acceptable type of it was socialist realism thousands of intellectuals and artists who felt it impossible to play by the new rules chose to leave among the world's 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 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 we truth here. one thousand nine hundred thirty three through 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 berlin in the style job for the old times was so strong some of them chose to return home often facing repressions by the soviet authorities or finding out that something they missed was gone for our. house and when so give us money of any family when they were leaving russia in

december nineteenth seventeen did they realize that they would never come back again that they would never see them he was always telling what he didn't realize he didn't really know exist so 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 uses so difficult so so why because because he thought that he could come to peace with the bolsheviks or did he did expect the the boss of a christian to last so long. have no letter about this. ok now as far as i know a man in of and his family's impression of the united states was rather mixed in one thousand held mine 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 he was the first invited once for his famous prelude in c. sharp minor to call a u. haul it was in kenya or no wait yes in his once. twenty years later he decided to settle in but he didn't really like the united states when he first went there is that true true perhaps. afterwards he was very happy to be. he he even had 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 of 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. case of one thousand and that's not what it was. is it has a chance to play in carnegie hall once in his life. 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 did you do you remember do you still remember him alive did you miss him a lot yes of course really. we spent together for months. so all of these international pianists you know he spent from october to april in the states and in europe from may to october so you do have good that's why he

had visited us and yeah it's property of us what sort of things he must have not for one week that for two weeks but regular every four or several months. what kind of a person was he because you should have like childhood. recollection magical and never heard him 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 got all the good grandfather he was a good bad with his wife never go scandals nothing. nothing no quarrels no that's interesting. how strong was his nostalgia for russia was there was your family in now was it in style that's. absolutely self. invention for russian people really yes yes yes yes about for said.

the group. the strand for attraction of a group they want him to belong to this group he's happy if a group out of a group. it's a 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 the subject like this everybody could have some nice but not like a general rule for ten years in vero 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 us for so ok now but. i figure the best proof is the music because the music if you would be it would be refusing to use but she

has some more energy going to 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 cromwell. exactly my phonetically he composed five hundred eighty two weeks 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 one small it's a. it's a propagandist. take a piece of paper and you will have exactly fifty percent certain for both of the most famous ones who are just

a plate. number one audience into for the night it was the reps of it so. it was the work who played the most of every quote bribes because so it was the reps reps it was not composed in moscow and not composed in separate fields book 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 produce these state that he used to have in russia even of that is that true perhaps i don't. know him he liked. to speak about all the music he makes. he make the design of a house so he'll like the to look after the park about the trees yes he has many kind of interest have you ever visited him out of

just does it look anything like this so we send the american stamps really not know what is there and you have an example i have to tell you you had a lady who can tell figs which hundred percent not true look at this and so she. opened the door that's where your grandfather slept he was everybody knows he was one meter. to. bed was one. for the call mall. for a small child she was looking at the she was even that the cute red color telling me such a big deal i said is it says alexander half minute after grandson allegedly composing it said get off my spotlight will be back shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview south stay with us.

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years that we get our money and have spent abroad after he fled russia after the bolshevik revolution in one thousand nine hundred seventeen well was he closely following the events in savage 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 in touch you can redress of looking every day and you know that what he did in new york times yes i'm sure you know yes hilo side yes that's where his visit was in that allowed to play for until fifty feet planted for. the free for the reason humor of the law 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 sort of social activity in the early for thirty's so you get a high enough alongside with style of leo tolstoy they signed they signed a letter. protesting against the repression russians in russia was he so really socially engaged person in general who he was helping very much with russian people . he made the check of one we shall have to speak to one million dollars of russians and. 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. told the. you can buy a book you will over he's responsible for the creation of the copters you lot about

a very couple story his relations with sikorsky tell me more about it that's interesting i know he supported sikorsky yes he was cough it would work for look like. for every day he saw. this guy is a russian he was right he was russian he asked him to come to his table to have a coffee with him he starts to speak what are you doing yes i'm preparing a machine which is to fly vertical you. know so and finally he help him for free he. spots a breakfast lunch and. read more for years until he he's a. copywriter for over and washed for his machine so it was sponsored. so the world that the world should be or should be thankful to two to so

good when the not only for the music you know but also for the telecast. make you claim again the you have really copters who are saving every day one or two persons envelops extraordinary machine was in. two thousand and seven that was a film a movie by paddled indian here in russia. and it was so you never saw him nobody told me that about but in this movie you may know that there is a scene. well 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 war was there a true story like that or is it fiction. was told about this but it will do if it's true or not to ignore you don't know but maybe this is how it happened was he this kind of person he could be serious yes 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 it could have been the solution as he knew and he didn't want to lose in the whole 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 could be one of the. it was assumed perseus were 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 rahmani of wasn't real the russian composer he was. only partly partly a russian composer is it true is this an accurate quote from what you say you're saying. said that he's not hundred percent russian just not hundred percent russian no one also because if you are working one day though

a year ago but if you're working in the france the united states for forty use of course some figure is coming in your brain and your body and you start to finger to speak differently of course yes it's absolute about actually with everybody so so so then we should say that for example in darkness he is not 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. in

for 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 yours pledge yet you pledge for instance you know if you have a divorce wally with someone you would do all your best to basically parody and if he for that his brother was with really and video he was paid to her so the little zero percent. for until she died every month. he was sending her money for the lady who was for his brother just because he fought but his brother was wrong and validity was lies so i support reading i've

read stories that he sent some 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 some bread and meat and wine from sarah get a mind 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 what he was sending to help was obvious a lot yes yes yes and these were considerable amounts of money. to do. it was a big body. there are rahmani and of society in many countries in the united kingdom in germany and in some other countries but you decided to set up but still get a whine a foundation right yes why what will also use the reason. using you but you have plenty of people who are trying to be close to right by if

for all purpose they want to take profit from so to be on the sea in. the spotlight. but i am doing it for. zero sense of address and doing that all it because i was considered that it was a big if not just for the level of music of my grandfather and a very reality and i touch wood it was i was right because to compare with ninety two we crease the audience by one fails the said. by ted and since he was elected. first positions in office by english but we received by a system we have seventy we are receiving phone calls who became official the first phone call came in seventy two hours afterwards from so very very nice lady

who is responsible for the whole. proposal is too big will next year with a gala and we have much more first our organization for to me that he free it took be free months to have the whole tube was to vids of the sollie said so and elvis coming so completely different but i you are you happy with the attention that one in the music has today in russia or no less about russia but you. i shall tell you to all i felt to compare how audience reaction and over reaction look for those difficult people either. we made with the nice but truth. and we had hundreds even though all the journalists wrote that

you had the mom of thirty three years all upstairs and everybody was standing and applauding. and legs so for really perform so i have a look so you through this question of the forty eight. does make profit today sometimes and sometimes not depends and sometimes it's we just had three days of gala in paris to show the music it was fully booked. if you go we were never a composer i have ask you be please could you help me and of course i know i shall not tell the names of course and or if i said yes to one man this man i shall not have more than forty percent of a hole to take it depends of ok thank you very much and i wish you all the success with what you do thank you much so thank you thank you and just a reminder that my guest today was alexander rahman you know grandson of a legendary composer so here and that's it for now from policy if you want to have

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