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a well known investigative journalist brutally beaten in the center of moscow police say his professional activity was most likely the course of an attempted murder case has been opened and will be overseen by russia's prosecutor general. police brutality in london a person dies in british custody each week. convicted of murder or manslaughter. torture talk the us gets a grilling human rights council for the first time washington was challenge to close guantanamo bay prison inquiries into allegations of abuse by u.s. troops. while on the eve of the anniversary of the bolshevik revolution of one thousand nine hundred seventeen talks to the grandson of a great russian composer who like many others fled the country at that time our

interview program spotlight with guest alexander then off is coming your way shortly stay with us. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. market why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on r.t. . hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on our team. and today my guest in the studio is alexander martin 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 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 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 his family alexander established 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 a mind 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 to russia in december of nineteen seventeen cells with seventeen for disability or so it was well 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 a king of sweden to play. christmas here the real reason because he had so. yeah and. his

people who were working who bought it 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 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 on the ballot change in the political system the communist ideology tended to penetrate all areas of life to fields of science could be declared war as you are pseudo science says as was the case with genetics and 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 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 literature. 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 berlin in the style geopolitical

times was so strong some of them chose to return home often facing group pressure by the soviet authorities or finding out that something they missed was gone for a. house and when sarah give us money 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 exist so he thought it was for a while one of the year three years four years but the save the same mistake was made for the second world war everybody was figured out it's 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 or he did expect the the boss of a christian to last so long. have knowledge 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 l. mind 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. tonight's no eight yes in this once. twenty years later he does said to settle in 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 had both a property about one hundred miles north of new york and. it's true to say it's real true 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 us 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 in. the case of one thousand and one it was. a chance to played 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 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 that's why he had visited this property of us what sort of things you must have not for one week that for two weeks but regularly written for several months. what kind of a person was he because you should have liked 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 was not only a good grandfather he was a good bad with his wife never go scandals. no quarrels no less interesting. how strong was his nostalgia for russia was this was your

family and now was it in a style that's. absolutely self. invention for russian people really yes yes yes yes about percent. the group that's the strad for attraction of a group they want to belong to this group he's happy with the group not of the group and that's a very common rule 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 something like this everybody could have some muscle 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 this for so ok now but. i figure the best proof is the music because of music if you would be it would be reviews of c.b.l. use but he 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 that with this the life 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 mathematically he could post 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 provocative. take a piece of paper and you will have exactly fifty percent. of the most famous one who just a plate. number one audience into falls the night it was a rhapsody so. it was the work who played the most of every quote bribes be told so it was the reps the reps the was not composed in moscow and not composed in separate il 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 but 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 what he liked.

to speak about all the music he makes. he make the design of a house so he liked to look after the. part about the trees yes he has many kind of interest have you have this divide of just does it look anything like this so we send the american steps are 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 so she. opened the door that's where your grandfather slept he was everybody knows he was one meter. to move all children. to bed was one. for the call mall. for a small child she was looking get me she was even the red color telling me such

a big deal like says it says alexander last minute after grandson of allegedly composing said get off my spotlight will be back shortly right after a break will continue the scent of you so stay with us don't go. dying to. look forward to be held don't see. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of not going to ration.

your spring of nineteen forty five on r t. o a cell phones would be useless without this mineral. the tiny feces needed to make them work. but every piece of coltan is extracted at a cost to human life. walkin back to the spotlight i am al gore in auburn just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is alexander rahman enough the grandson of a legendary composer savior how man if i was and is also the director of the

rahmani now foundation. mr of mind if we started speaking about the years that we get our money and have spent abroad after he fled russia after the bolshevik revolution of nine hundred seventeen well was he 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 in touch you can redress looking every day. you do over what he did in new york yes i'm sure you know. years of authority his music was not allowed to play for until fifty three hundred fifty free for a reason hume 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. you don't know you don't think so so ok now mentioning mentioning this sort of social activity in the early for thirty's so you get a mine of 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 she was helping very much with russian people. whew hew made the check of one who we shall have to speak the one million dollars of russians and. yes yes she 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 there just but so was exactly the country. told. us you can buy

a book you will over he's responsible for the creation of the copters you know what about a very couple stories his relations with sikorsky tell me more about it that's interesting i know he supported sikorsky yes he was drinking coffee to work for 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. so and finally he help him for free he. completes breakfast lunch and bread for years until he's a. copywriter for over and washed for his machine so it was sponsored. so the world of the the world should be or should be thankful to get out

when the not only for the music you know but also for the telecoms about. making a mountain to climb again you have siri every day one or two persons envelops this extraordinary machine. in. two thousand and seven that was a film a movie by paddled indian here in russia. and it was ok if 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 sarah get off my enough refuses to play in the carnegie hall and the presence of the soviet ambassador so i'm not going to pay. what is it true was the war was the true story like that or is it fiction. was told about this but it will do if it's true or to ignore you don't know but maybe this had 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 he knew and he didn't want to be in the hole does it really matter do you think for for a person who likes a good man in the composer a pianist and maestro who really is in the audience good could be one of the. it was assume the us were to listen and the interesting thing. i promised my producers i would be asking you this question but so i want to ask you how you keep saying in your interviews that rahman of 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'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 do all the year go but if you're working in france in 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 equally with everybody so so so then we should say that for example. one hundred percent russian writer he's not so much involved in the verse states he was not working so much he was much more sitting in his room for its very influence of. pop music in the cell for four wall street you know what you had was wonderful song and he was very funny you have even a table today if you go to where you this table were sitting. in front of

so if you were looking for such a music. you have an influence if you like it you figured differently you could use the you mentioned or horn of support for sikorsky did he did did he have close relationship with the rest of the russian immigration did he support anybody else for years pledge here pledge for instance you know if you have a divorce wally with someone you would do all your best to place a good payday 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 money for a lady who was why for his brother just because he fought but his brother was wrong and believe it 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 so the red army and that and that the soldiers actually knew that this was some bread and meat and wine from sarah get a one in and that they made a toast let's drink to compose there are enough there's a true all is the made up to do if a soldier told a. speech but what 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 rahmani 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 yes why. are you stories.

using if you have plenty of people who are trying to be close to right by if for all purpose you want to take profits from so to be on the sea in. the spotlight. but i am doing vote for. zero 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 early thing 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 positions in office by english but we received by a system where seventy we are receiving phone calls who became official the first

call came seventy two hours afterwards from so very very nice lady who is responsible for the whole. proposal is to be will next year with a gala and we have much more first in fourteen me they'd free it took me free months to have a whole two months to vids of the sollie said so and elvis coming so completely different but i you know you're happy with the attention that one in the music just has today in russia or in awe less about russia have you. i shall tell you to all i felt to compare how is vote audience reaction and over reaction look for those difficult people. who were made with the nice but truth. and we had hundreds even though all the journalists wrote that you had the thirty three years

all upstairs and everybody was standing and applauding weaver and legs so for judy it's a really powerful so i have a look so you through this question the forty eight. does make profit today sometimes and sometimes not depends sometimes it's we just had three days of gala in paris. it was fully booked. if you go with another composer i have subjects who are asking me please could you help me and of course i know i shall not tell the names of course i 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 of 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 rachmaninoff grandson of

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