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wealthy british style. that's not on. the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on r t. hello again and welcome to spotlight the in t.v. show on r t m l going on 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. 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 money 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 i get off my end 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 seventy five dissever yeah so it was well 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. yeah. man among his people who were working who but it told him but in forty years you have a group of person who is coming to kill you and you did there was no.

so he took his wife his children so it wasn't a coincidence he 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 a bad change in the political system the communist ideology tended to penetrate all areas of life to fields of science could be declared. just signed says 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 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. in one nine hundred thirty three three 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. 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 a 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 that he was always telling her he didn't realize he didn't really know exist so he thought it was for a while one year two 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 or he did expect the the boss of a christian to last so long. have no letter 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 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 advice it was 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 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 he 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 when the choose choose the state was i think for the unity of pianists carnegie hall is number one . you know over statistic it's about one. the 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 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. this property and this with sort of things you must have not for one week that for two weeks but regularly for 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. does. 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 you know how strong i was his nostalgia for russia was there was your family in now was of this palace that's. absolutely self.

invention for russian people really yes yes yes yes. about. the group. the strad for attraction of a group they want him to belong to this group but 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 and i decide to 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 can have some nice but not like a general rule for ten years in bro 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 his friends so ok now but. i think the best proof

is the music because the music if you would be it would be reviews of bell use but he has some more. 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 new life in the 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 more exactly my phonetically 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 and you may cross fifty percent was written out of version one small it's a. it's a provocative. take

a piece of paper and you will have exactly fifty percent certain verb most of the most famous words who are just there. one audience in to for us tonight was a representative so. that was the worker who played the most of every. bribes because 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 money are saying 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 liked to look after.

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 with the american steps rooted not snow that is different and if you have an example i have to tell you that you had a lady who can tell the figs. not through looking. she. opened the door that's where your grandfather slept he was everybody knows he was one mutilated too. bad 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 so says alexander are smart enough the grandson of a legendary composer said to get our mind spotlight will be back shortly right

after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us. millions died. and made him look forward to be helped and say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of liberation. here a spring of nineteen forty five on our team. a moment when the world has changed forever.

thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded. and noone to suffer today. was the first but probably not the last unitary uses of this weapon. will be come. children common get on in the future. woke up back to the spotlight on al gore and often just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is alexander enough the grandson of a legendary composer say that i am on the files and it is also the director of that amani now foundation mr kind of we started speaking about the

years that says if you get us money enough. 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 times yes i'm sure you know yes. yes that's where he his visit was not allowed to play for until fifty three thousand nine hundred fifty free for the reason human of the world 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 the 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 was. hugh he made the check of one we shall have to speak 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 not that was the last but so was exactly the country. as i told. you can buy the book

you know but 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 he was drinking coffee to work for like. for every day he saw. this guy is a russian he was right he wasn't russian he asked him to come to his table to have a coffee with him he starts to speak what i guess i'm preparing a machine which is to fly vertical. so and finally he help him for free he. spots a 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 the world should be

a should be thankful to get out when the not only for the music you know but also for the telecast. make you climb again you have siri every day one or two persons in this extraordinary machine. 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 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 was it true was that what was the true story like that or is it fiction. was told about this but it will do if it's true that to know you don't know but maybe that 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 he didn't want to be in the hole does it really matter do you think for for a person who likes a good one of the composer a pianist and maestro who really is in the audience good could be one of his it was assume you know where to listen and then trusting thing. i promised my producer i would be asking you this question but so i want to ask you out 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're saying. said that he's not hundred percent russian just not hundred percent russian

no one also because if you are working one did go. but if you're working in the. united states for forty use of course some figure is coming in your brain is your body and you start to proofing it to speak differently of course yes it's absolute about actually with everybody so so so then we should say that for example. one hundred percent russian writer or he's the 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 self or for wall street you lose what you had was wonderful song and he was very fond you have even a table today if you go to where you this table were sitting still serves as my

informal so if you are looking for such a music you have an influence. if you like it you figured differently you could use the you mentioned are one 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 with really and video was a 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 lies so i support

reading i've read stories that he's sent some sort of 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 their white enough 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 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 us why what was of course what you stories.

are using if 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 i am doing it for. zero zero cents of interest i'm doing that all of because i was considering that it was a big 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 freeze the audience by one fails and said pick it by ted and since he was elected. first position in the office by englishman we received my sister's we have seventy we are receiving phone calls who became official the first

call came in seventy two hours afterwards from so very nice lady who is responsible for the whole. proposal was to be relaxed yearly gala and we have much more first in fourteen me that free it took me free months to have the whole tube was 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 of the music has today in russia or in all about russia but you. i shall tell you to all i felt to compare how audience reaction and over reaction look the most difficult people. we made with the nice but truth. and we had hundreds even though all the.

work that you had the thirty three years old upstairs and everybody was standing and applauding weaver. and legs so for judy it's really perform so i have a look see you through this question 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 yes if you go with another composer i have some parents who are asking me please could you help me and of course i can or 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 holder think it depends on 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 no grandson of

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