Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Permissions and Credits
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Dating
Moscow and Modernity
Reading the Popular Pessimist: Thought, Feeling, and Dance in Rachmaninoff 's Symphonic Narrative
Sergei Rachmaninoff and Moscow Musical Life
Love Triumphant: Rachmaninoff 's Eros, the Silver Age, and the Middlebrow
Rachmaninoff and the "Vocalise": Word and Music in the Russian Silver Age
Three Operas
Tchaikovsky's Echoes, Chaliapin's Sobs: Aleko, Rachmaninoff, and the Contemporary
Rachmaninoff 's Miserly Knight (On Money, Honor, and the Means to Create)
Burning for You: Rachmaninoff 's Francesca da Rimini
New Worlds
Rachmaninoff and the Celebrity Interview: A Selection of Documents from the American Press
The Eighteenth Variation
"One of the Outstanding Musical Events of All Time": The Philadelphia Orchestra's 1939 Rachmaninoff Cycle
"The Case of Rachmaninoff ": The Music of a White Emigré in the USSR
Aesthetic Ambition and Popular Taste: The Divergent Paths of Paderewski, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff
Index
Notes on the Contributors
Volumes Published In Conjunction With The Bard Music Festival