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Brilliant career

Rhapsody rhapsody, Sergei Rakhmaninov Held the crowds captive wher- Ever he'd play.

Classmate and fellow-Con- Servatoire-medallist, Long-dead Skryabin, was There all the way.

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PELE DE GALINHA #3

"[...] An approach in terms of value judgments has become a fiction for the person who finds himself hemmed in by stardardized musical goods. he can neither escape the impotence nor decide between the offerings where everything is so completely identical that prefenrence, in fact, depends merely on biographical details or in the situation in which things are heard. The categories of autonomously oriented art have no applicability to the comtemporary reception of music.

  [...] Aldous Huxley has raised the question of who, in a place of amusement, is really being amused. With the same justice it can be asked whom music for entertainment still entertains. Rather, it seems to complement the reduction of people to silence, the dying out of speech as expression, the inhability to communicate at all. It inhabits the pockets of silence that develop between people molded by anxiety, work and undemanding docility. Everywhere it takes over, unnoticed, the deadly sad role that fell to it in the time and specific situation of the silent films. It is perceived purely as background [...]"

  "On the fetish-character in music and the regression of listening" (Excerpt), Theodor W. Adorno (september 11, 1903 - august 6, 1969) 

  Of a particular affection for the f sharp minor pieces of Aleksandr Skyabin, some (almost chronologicall) wanderings on (the) tonality (and others) were born... 

  Lute sonata no. 48 in f sharp minor Allemande - andante, Silvius Leopold Weiss (Breslau 1687 - Dresden 1750) 

  Nocturne in f sharp minor, op 104 no. 1, Gabriel Urbain Fauré (Ariège, 1945 - Paris, 1924) 

  Piano concerto in f sharp minor, op. 20 1st movement 2nd movement 3rd movement, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Skryabin (Moscow, 1871/2 - Moscow, 1915) 

  Prelude in f sharp minor, op. 23 no. 1, Sergey Vasil'yevich Rakhmaninov (Onega 1873 - Beverly Hills 1943)   

Sonatine in f sharp minor, Maurice Ravel (Ciboure 1875 - Paris 1937)