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composer and pianist sygate amarna. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on our. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on our team i'm 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 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 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 good at 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 to seventy five dissever yeah 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 the 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 in forty years you have

a group of persons 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 their bad change in the political system the communist ideology tended to penetrate all areas of life to fields of science could be declared. just 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 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. in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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. in the style g.o.p. 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 a. house and when sarah 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 was always telling her 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 figure that it is 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 or 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 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 eighteen thousand you can he was the first advisors 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 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 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 community of pianist carnegie hall is number one. you know over statistic it's about one. of the candidates on one thousand and one it was. has a chance to have played 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 just. 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 visited this property of us with sort of. 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. to. he was a good grandfather i mean he got all the good grandfather he was a good bad with his wife never do all the scandals for you. no quarrels. that's interesting. how strong was his nostalgia for russia was there was your

family and now was of the salvage. absolutely self. invention for the russian people really yes yes yes yes about percent. the group. the strayed for attraction of a group they want 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 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 study 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 this 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 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 the life and he 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. exactly my phonetically he composed 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 verse one small it's

a propaganda it's a propaganda they say take a piece of paper and you will have exactly fifty percent certain of the most famous one who just updated. one audience into for the night it was the reps of the so. that was the work who played the most of every quote bribes we're told so it was the reps 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 produce these state that he used to have in russia even of is that true 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 ever visited him out of 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 had a lady who can't tell the figs which are. not true looking and so she. opened the door that's where your grandfather slept he was everybody knows he was one meter. to. bed was one. call ma. foi a small child she was looking at the she was even that they couldn't read color telling me such a big deal says a says alexander mining at the grandson of allegedly composite said

get off my spotlight will be back shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview south stay with us then go. to. 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 die. russian titanic. holidaymakers wouldn't dare to swim so deep.

the tourist would be scared of such cold water. and would never die if nothing is seen within a monster. they are not tourists they are researchers. and feel worse online than in deep water. won't come back to spotlight on al. just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is alexander rahman enough the grandson of a legendary composer saying get him on the fire xander 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 rigorous looking every day. you do over what he did in new york yes i'm sure you know you're also down yes that's where he his music was not allowed to play for until fifty three thousand nine hundred fifty 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 this thirty's forty's fifty's i don't. know you don't think so so ok

now mentioning mentioning this search 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 she was helping very much with russian people was. hugh he made the check of one who 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. acts are 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 he will over he's responsible for the creation of the copters you lot 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 a 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 vertically. so and finally he helped him for free. breakfast lunch and bread for four years until he's a. copywriter for over and washed for his machine so it was. so the world that the world should be or should be thankful to get when the not

only for the music you know but also for the telecoms about. making a mountain to climb again the you have siri every day one or two persons envelops extorting machine. in. two thousand and seven that was a film a movie by pavel than being here in russia. and also if 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 said to 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 was it true was the war. was there a true story like that or is it fiction. was told the visitors will do if it's through doctrine or 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 the 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 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 the. it was assume you know where to listen and the interesting thing. i promised my producer i would 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'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 the year though but if you're

working 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 absolutely but agree 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 states it 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. and for so if you are looking for such

a music you have an influence if you like it you figured differently you could pose if you mentioned or 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 yet you pledge for instance you know if you have a divorce or 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. little zero percent for until she died every month. he was sending her money for 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 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 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 us all various a lot yes yes yes and these were considerable amounts of money spent for those who. 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 whine a foundation write us why it was of course what you stories. are using you have plenty of people who are trying to be close to walk by if for

all purpose people want to take profit from so to be on the sea. of silliness wildlife. but i am doing it for. zero sense of address and 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 teaching and i touch wood it was i was right because to compare with ninety two we freeze the audience by one fails and said. by ted and since he was elected. first positions in office by english but we received by a sister we have seven 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 for lex yearly gullah and we have much more first in fourteen me that free it took me free months to have the whole two boards to vids sali said so and l.v. coming so completely different but i you are you happy with the attention that are mine the music just has today in russia or and all less about russia but you. i shall tell you to all i felt to compare how is the 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 journalists wrote that you had a number of thirty three years all upstairs and everybody was standing and

applauding. and legs so for judy it's a really perform so i have a look see you through this question that. does make profit today sometimes and sometimes not it depends 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 know i shall not tell the names of course and oh 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

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