Rachmaninov Cloak: Notes about nostalgia
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J. Russo calls the genre of his book "mixed double genre of memories and biography."
New York, 1949. George, an eight-year-old pianist from a poor Jewish family accidentally breaks the dear cello of his friend Richard Amster. Mother Richard Evelyn, who herself was a pianist, easily forgives him. So their friendship is born.
Many years later, having become a historian of culture and a professor at the University of California, and then at Oxford, George Russo writes "Rachmaninov Cloys" are unusual memoirs, in which two parallel stories of life tells. Parallel in the sense that their main characters are in captivity of deep nostalgia for the lost. The first story is about the fate of Evelyn Amster, an unknown American pianist who lost his son and obsessed with the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov. The second is about Sergey Rachmaninov himself, who failed to overcome the longing for the lost homeland until the end of his life.
The events that make up the life of Sergei Rachmaninov have long been set out in detail by biographers. But can they convey the mysterious inner world of creative nature? How to explain the influence of Rachmanin’s music on the audience with the help of dry facts alone? "Rachmaninov Cabisure" is a narrative based both on the erudition and on the author’s intuition, it is focused on nostalgia and the melancholy caused by it, which, in the representation of J. Rousseau, became the key to understanding the musical language of the Russian composer. The touching story of Evelyn Amster, enthusiastic about the life and work of Sergei Rachmaninov, intertwining with her the story of the author himself constitute this story about doubles, ghosts, parallel lines of life and happy discoveries. It is as difficult to forget her as to forget the melodies of Rachmaninov himself.
Philip Ross Bullock,
Professor of Russian literature and music
Oxford University
New York, 1949. George, an eight-year-old pianist from a poor Jewish family accidentally breaks the dear cello of his friend Richard Amster. Mother Richard Evelyn, who herself was a pianist, easily forgives him. So their friendship is born.
Many years later, having become a historian of culture and a professor at the University of California, and then at Oxford, George Russo writes "Rachmaninov Cloys" are unusual memoirs, in which two parallel stories of life tells. Parallel in the sense that their main characters are in captivity of deep nostalgia for the lost. The first story is about the fate of Evelyn Amster, an unknown American pianist who lost his son and obsessed with the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov. The second is about Sergey Rachmaninov himself, who failed to overcome the longing for the lost homeland until the end of his life.
The events that make up the life of Sergei Rachmaninov have long been set out in detail by biographers. But can they convey the mysterious inner world of creative nature? How to explain the influence of Rachmanin’s music on the audience with the help of dry facts alone? "Rachmaninov Cabisure" is a narrative based both on the erudition and on the author’s intuition, it is focused on nostalgia and the melancholy caused by it, which, in the representation of J. Rousseau, became the key to understanding the musical language of the Russian composer. The touching story of Evelyn Amster, enthusiastic about the life and work of Sergei Rachmaninov, intertwining with her the story of the author himself constitute this story about doubles, ghosts, parallel lines of life and happy discoveries. It is as difficult to forget her as to forget the melodies of Rachmaninov himself.
Philip Ross Bullock,
Professor of Russian literature and music
Oxford University
Author:
Author:Russo George
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Series:
Series: Collection
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-7516-1571-0
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