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you always good to have your company today the headlines now a russian investigative journalist is severely beaten up in moscow and is now in an induced coma police say likely to be connected with his professional activity. campaigners in the u.k. demanding convictions for police officers responsible for deaths in custody one person a week reportedly dies as a result of contact with the police in the country but no one has ever been found guilty. and the u.s. has come under unprecedented public scrutiny over its human rights record at the united nations human rights council the country received harsh criticism over its immigration policies racial profiling you saw the death penalty abuse allegations overseas as. well on the eve of the anniversary of the bolshevik revolution of one thousand nine hundred seventeen i'll go off talks to the grandson of a great russian composer who like many others fled the country at that turbulent

time program spotlight with a guest alexander document off is 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 cars a report on. 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 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 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 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 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 give a million of left to russia in december 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 overcame the first region to play. christmas eve here the real reason because he had so. yeah.

his people who were working who bought it told him but in forty years you have a group of persons who is coming to kill you and you did their worst no no so so 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 seventeen spotlights you know the media has more in that. one thousand nine hundred seventeen revolution and russia wasn't on their ballot changing the political system the communist ideology tended to penetrate all areas of life who fields of science could be declared 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 wild 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. 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 repressions 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 exists 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 he didn't 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 nine hundred ninety nine is that right when he first visited this country but why did he decide to certain finally settled in the united states in nineteen eighteen was it here in the eighteen thousand years can he was the first invited once for his famous prelude in c. sharp minor to call a u.-haul it was in. eight 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 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 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. on one thousand and one it was. 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 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 chance that's why he had visited this property of us what sort of things you must not for one week that for two weeks but regular 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 got all the good. he was a good bad with his wife never go scandals nothing. nothing no quarrels no

less interesting you know. how strong i was his nostalgia for russia was there was your family and now was of the style that's an. absolutely self. invention for russian people really your services. about the percent. of a group. the strand for attraction of a group they want him 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 neither neither sort of get out of my you know the family we're not really nostalgic of russian 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 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 of music if you would be it would be refusing to 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 with this in your life in the new world why didn't he write anything for eight long years not only put he was only playing concerts but he didn't write anything more 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 propaganda. take a piece of paper and you will have exactly fifty percent so of the most famous one who just updated. number one audience into the night it was the reps so. it was the work who played the most of every. bribes we're told so it was the reps the reps and 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 and he had another one in the united states but in switzerland and again the official biographies of money are saying that he tried to rip reduce the state that he used to have in russia even of that is that. it's.

he liked. to speak about all the music he makes. he make the design of a house so he like the to look after. about the trees yes he has many kind of interests have you have this device of just does it look anything like this so essentially american steps are not snow that is there and if you have an example i have to tell you you had a lady who can tell the things which are. not true looking and so she. opened the door that's where your grandfather slept he was everybody knows he was one mutilated. bed was one. for a small child she was looking good she was it would not take

a red color telling me such a big deal like says alexander amani enough the grandson of allegedly composer said to get our money spotlight will be back shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us. dyke. made him look forward to be held down say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of liberation. year a spring of nineteen forty five on our team. the admiral no human.

passenger liner sailing in the black sea. august thirty first nineteen eighty six. twenty three twenty. four kilometers off shore. crashes into another vessel. four hundred twenty three people died. russian titanic. woke up back to a spotlight on al gore and often just to remind of that my guest in the studio today is alexander enough the grandson of the legendary composer say that i am on the fires and it is also the director of the damani enough foundation mr a kind of

we started speaking about the years that says that he gave us money enough spent abroad after he fled russia after the bolshevik revolution of one nine hundred seventy 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 extremely interesting looking every day. you do over it what he did in new york times yes i'm sure you know yeah. yes that's where he his visit was not allowed to play for until fifty three thousand nine hundred fifty free for reasons 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. know you don't think so ok now mentioning mentioning this sort of social activity in the early for thirty's so we get our money 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 personally in general who she was helping very much with russian people was. 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 and 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 lot 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 coffer to work for the 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 to start to speak what i guess i'm preparing a machine which is to fly vertical. so and finally he helped him for free. complete sports a breakfast lunch and bed for four 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 telecast about. making a mountain to climb again you have siri every day one or two persons in this extraordinary machine was in. two thousand and seven that was a film a movie by pavel than being 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. 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 so i'm not going to pay was it true it was the what was the true story like that or is it fiction. was told of elvis but if it's true that to know you don't know but maybe this had happened was see 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 specific person 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. mastro who really is in the audience good grief 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 romulus wasn't real the russian composer she 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 yes not hundred percent russian

no one also because if you are working one day though well you know 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 proofing it to speak differently of course yes it's absolutely true but equally with everybody so so so then we should say that for example. his is one hundred percent russian writer he's not so much involved in the states it 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 that you had those wonderful songs and he was very fond you have even a table today if you go to where you this table was sitting still serves as my

informal 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 us 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 if he for that his brother was with really and video he was paying to her so the little zero percent for until she died every month. he was sending her money for lady who was the wife of 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 one in and that they made a toast let's drink to compose it or 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 us all various 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 surrogate a whine a foundation write us why what was of course what you stories.

are using you have plenty of people who are trying to be close to right by if for all purpose we are one to take profit from so to be on the sea in. the spotlight. but i am doing it for. zero sense of interest that's all it 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 and i touch wood it was i was right because to compare with ninety two we preserve the audience by what fells a said. by ted and since he was elected. first positions in office by englishman we received by a system where 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 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 one with music just has today in russia or in awe 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 you or we made with the nice but truth. and we had hundreds even though all the journalists wrote

that you had the number of 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 see you through this question 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 that is it it was fully booked yes if you go we were never a composer have 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 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 thank you thank you and just a reminder that my guest today was alexander rahmani grandson of a legendary composer said here and that's it for now from all of us here if you

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