Rachmaninoff and His World

Philip Ross Bullock is professor of Russian literature and music at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor in Russian at Wadham College, Oxford. He is the author of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and coeditor of Music’s Nordic Breakthrough: Modernity, Aesthetics, and Cultural Exchange, 1890–1930, with Daniel M. Grimley.

• IntroductionPhilip Ross BullockPermissions and CreditsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and Dating  MOSCOW AND MODERNITYReading the Popular Pessimist: Thought, Feeling, and Dance in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic NarrativePeter FranklinSergei Rachmaninoff and Moscow Musical LifeRebecca MitchellLove Triumphant: Rachmaninoff’s Eros, the Silver Age, and the MiddlebrowMarina Frolova-WalkerRachmaninoff and the “Vocalise”: Word and Music in the Russian Silver AgePhilip Ross Bullock  THREE OPERASTchaikovsky’s Echoes, Chaliapin’s Sobs: Aleko, Rachmaninoff, and the ContemporaryEmily FreyRachmaninoff’s Miserly Knight (On Money, Honor, and the Means to Create)Caryl EmersonBurning for You: Rachmaninoff’s Francesca da RiminiSimon Morrison  NEW WORLDSRachmaninoff and the Celebrity Interview: A Selection of Documents from the American PressSelected and Edited by Philip Ross BullockThe Eighteenth VariationSteve Swayne“One of the Outstanding Musical Events of All Time”: The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1939 Rachmaninoff CycleChristopher H. Gibbs“The Case of Rachmaninoff”: The Music of a White Emigré in the USSRMarina Raku, translated by Jonathan WalkerAesthetic Ambition and Popular Taste: The Divergent Paths of Paderewski, Busoni, and RachmaninoffLeon Botstein  IndexNotes on the Contributors

"The editor and contributor, Philip Ross Bullock, should be congratulated on producing a collection of articles that adds much detailed substance. .  . . It deserves a place in libraries everywhere and in the collections of those music lovers for whom ‘romantic’ is not a dirty word."