Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Permissions and Credits xix
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Note on Transliteration and Dating xxii
7. Moscow and Modernity
8. Reading the Popular Pessimist: Thought, Feeling, and Dance in Rachmaninoff ’s Symphonic Narrative 1
9. Sergei Rachmaninoff and Moscow Musical Life 26
10. Love Triumphant: Rachmaninoff ’s Eros, the Silver Age, and the Middlebrow 56
11. Rachmaninoff and the “Vocalise”: Word and Music in the Russian Silver Age 82
12. Three Operas
13. Tchaikovsky’s Echoes, Chaliapin’s Sobs: Aleko, Rachmaninoff, and the Contemporary 101
14. Rachmaninoff ’s Miserly Knight (On Money, Honor, and the Means to Create) 139
15. Burning for You: Rachmaninoff ’s Francesca da Rimini 160
16. New Worlds
17. Rachmaninoff and the Celebrity Interview: A Selection of Documents from the American Press 179
18. The Eighteenth Variation 216
19. “One of the Outstanding Musical Events of All Time”: The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1939 Rachmaninoff Cycle 236
20. “The Case of Rachmaninoff ”: The Music of a White Emigré in the USSR 270
21. Aesthetic Ambition and Popular Taste: The Divergent Paths of Paderewski, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff 301
22. Index 347
23. Notes on the Contributors 356
24. Volumes Published In Conjunction With The Bard Music Festival 359