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Thanks for sharing it! Do you have any dates, such as for the Arrau piano party?

Dear LJC,

I am in such a shock to read your messages!!! What she told you is just amazing! This episode with the boat is so much unique and shows what a delicate person R. was and how presicely exact he felt the feelings of other people...

Piano, cars and boats)))) That's absolutely right! He also loved skating and even kite:



Dear LJC,

You ask:
"If this is interesting to you I will tell you about my lesson and talks with Ruth at her apartment (just down the street from where R. lived)"

Please go on telling us more about Ruth! We all ask you!!!
By the way, what is the exact adress of the house SVR lived in?

I'll be back to read all the marvelous posts of you friends, Rieseman's book and hands question... I wish these topics were separate not to mix everything in one theme... well.. as you like it...
By the way, did ever anyone met the photo of Oskar Rieseman? I never did!

Just look at the euphoric expressions of unbridled ecstacy on their faces! This looks to be like the most fun three sober individuals can possibly have with their clothes on!

I often suggest kite-therapy to my students to alleviate the heebie-jeebies.

Marianne I'll keep writing if you keep posting those great photos. I think we are all very fortunate that R. had so many cameras around him. You asked if I read Forbidden Childhood. I have not but that is about to change, I called a book dealer and he located a copy for me. I have to think back on my conversations with Ruth. She showed me some of her memorabilia that is framed and hanging on her walls. She had an original Liszt authograph. I noticed a picture of a man and I asked if it was her husband. It was her late husband and I commented that he was taller. Ruth said everyone is taller. He was a professor of political science, he was not a musician. I told her I thought it was a co-incidence that she lived on the same Street as R. and she commented that he was up the road a bit. (West End Ave) (I am not giving out Ruth's address)I have R's addresses somewhere I will look for them. I even have his summer address on Long Island where he converted the Symphonic dances for 2 pianos. Its not far from where I live but the mansion he rented burned down in the 1960's. Here's something interesting. R.'s great grandson Sergie and I had a conversation. He and his brother had missed the rehearsal at Julliard of the 3rd piano concerto that we members of the society were allowed to attend. Their mother had injured her foot that morning and it had to be attended to. They did see the performance. I thought it was really funny when everyone was filing out of the auditorium that R's family was there and almost no one knew it. I said a little bit load to my friend,"See that tall man over there, that's R.s' great Grand son as several people turned and looked in astonishment. Anyway Serg asked me how the rehearsal was and I told him it was a bit more energenic than the performance. Thats when Serg confided that he had never heard the whole concerto because he cannot help but fall asleep during it. BTW neither Serg or his brother (J.) play although J took a few lessons. Maybe you want to hear about my conversation with Vladimir Ashkenazy? Oh and Marianne I note you have a link to the R. Society. If you look at the article about the Sept 07 event in NYC at the bottom is a photo of Askenazy holding a framed photos of R. on the concert stage. That was a gift to him from the society. In the photo on the left is a man with a loosened tie no jacket and glasses. Thats me.

thank you for your post. i loved looking at the photos and viewing the movie.

thanks so much

Lee, here is the link:

2007 Rach Society Conference NYC

Dear LJC!!!

I do as you like it and will post as many rare pictures of Rachmaninoff as there are in the whole world only to keep you telling us more and more! I will translate to Russian what you write about Ruth and SVR for all the lovers of Rachmaninoff's music to read! There is a Rachmaninoff community in the Russian analog of facebook, and there is a Rachmaninoff society in Saint-Petersburg, and Ashkenazy played for the society, and the head of the Saint-Petersburg society is the author of the books about Rachmaninoff - "Rachmaninoff in Saint-Petersburg" and "Rachmaninof and Bunin (Russian writer - Noble prize winner)"!

Here is one of the most rare pictures I've discovered in the Internet - Rachmaninoff and Medtner. I never knew where the picture was taken and when, but my friend the architect told me that he recognised Piazza della Signoria in Firenze, so I had only to check when Rachmaninoff visited Florence to know the date: April 1924





Thank you for the link to the picture! I wish I had the large photo of that photo with SVR playing as this picture is one of the best if not the best one, because it shows him playing and it gives the impression that is a shot from the video. I saw the comments under this photo that say: "Where we can see the video to this picture?")))

Wow more Rachmaninoff enthusiasts than I thought! I feel all the more at home now!

Some more interesting Rach pics.

Serge the ice-cream man:



Having tea with Melba Toast seated to his left:



Many don't realize that Serge was the first punk-pianist:



Serge, a moment before fighting off the unwelcome advances of Oscar Wilde:



With a brutal migraine:

Love those pix!

BJ, check out Elgar and his dogs.

Really cool!!!

Marianne, Did you get my private message?

I received it by mistake.

You forgot the word "and" after "photos," (with comma)

How do you know the omission wasn't intentional? That's a pretty common rhetorical device, even if the name for it isn't a household word: asyndeton.

Steven

I assumed she wasn't trying to be poetic. After reading her last 12 posts, and finding over 15 instances of punctuation errors, I'm quite certain that it's just a case of bad grammar, which I didn't realize was so important on this forum until today, and is reprehensible, considering that she openly ridiculed a forum member for mistyping a word, just a case of a key not being depressed enough. You can't have a perfect world without perfect grammar and I wanted to point this out to her so sensibly, she won't be so quick to make fun of others.

Even worse is the fact that although she was quite vocal in ridiculing others, she now has fallen mute on the subject of grammatical errors.