Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tucked away between trees at the Cumberland Avenue end of World's Fair Park is a statue of Russian composer and pianist Sergei ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — He is considered as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century and 80 years ago, he took his final bow in Knoxville. Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff played his last recital at ...

I want to say a special word about Dave Malloy’s “Preludes,” because it is the work of an artist who is not afraid to try things, or to create worlds that haven’t necessarily been seen before, and, ...

Taking place as a memory play in the house in which Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills, Nicholas, Anna & Sergei is the story of a very strange and little-known real-life meeting between the famed ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff is remembered for his rich, sweeping and often complex melodies that evoke the sounds and sights of his native Russia. But what most people don’t know about the famed composer is ...

April 1st is Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birth anniversary and his legacy is still up for discussion in some circles. At the heart of those discussions is the idea of "what makes a composer great?" ...

One of the saddest and most paradoxical artistic exiles of the 20th century was Sergei Rachmaninoff, who fled the Russian Revolution and wound up in New York and Los Angeles, in equal measure ...

April 1, 2013, marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of Russian composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff. Widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day, Rachmaninoff was also one of the ...

It was quiet beneath the mountain laurel shrubs shielding the grave of the composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff from the late-summer sun, 4,500 miles away from the furor building in Russia.

In December 1917, with Revolutionary Russia descending into civil war, pianist, conductor and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) boarded a train from Petrograd’s (now St. Petersburg’s) Finland ...