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

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 o

to spotlight on al gore and often just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is alexander rahmani not the grandson of a legendary composer say that i'm on the fire xander is also the director of the dot com line in the foundation mr kind of we started speaking about the years that was there to get us money and have spent abroad after he fled russia after the bolshevik revolution of nine hundred seventeen well was heat 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 vivid interest. looking every day. you do over what he did in new york times yes i'm sure you know yes. yes but for him his visit was not allowed to play for until fifty three thousand nine hundred fifty free for a reason 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 live there now no you don't think so. ok now mention