Weight in the fingertips: a musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the world stage
"A memoir offering powerful insights into the role of music in a world of conflict, change, and hope for a better tomorrow"--
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| adam_text | CONTENTS xi Acknowledgments xiii Prelude 1 Bach Sound, Spoon Rhythm 2 Shpilka 19 3 Down and Out in Vienna and Rome 35 4 Weight in the Fingertips 53 1 Interlude: Clara Wieck-Schumann, Concerto in A Minor and Sonata in G Minor 5 91 Pink Flamingoes 95 109 Interlude: Maurice Ravel, Scarbo; Billy Childs, Pursuit 6 113 The Inevitability of Leon 7 Rhapsody in Blue, Russian Style 8 The Medicis Live On, or How I Met Shpigelmacher Again Interlude: What s So Great about Beethoven Anyway? Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations ix 125 143 163
X ! Contents A Return to Italy 167 10 Eat the World 195 11 JFK-LAX 207 9 Interlude: Maya Miro Johnson, Manuscripts Don t Burn 217 12 Voices of Beijing 221 13 Alone, a White Sail Gleams 237 Postlude: Yellow and Blue 249 Index 253
INDEX Abraham, F. Murray, 62 Abramovich, Roman, 185 Accademia Pianistica Internazionale, 168,173, 174, 183 accordionists, 182-83 Ace Gallery, 213-14 Admission: One Shilling, 249 Adventures ofMoomi Trolls (Jansson), 14 Agerich, Martha, 120 Ai Wei Wei, 229 Alexey (housemate), 201 Alfredo (pianist), 179-80 Allen, Kitty, 114,116 Allen, Woody, 77-78 allergies, 48 Alone, A White Sail Gleams (Kataev), 245 Amadeus (film), 62 Ammara, Alessandra, 181,185 Anastasia (friend), 12-13,18, 33 Anatolievna, Valentina, 5, 7,11, 26 Andrei Rublev, 185 Annushka (friend), 44 anti-Semitism, 20-21, 32, 89 Appalachian Spring, 130 Appassionata, 85, 242-43, 250 Arietta, 101-2 Arkansas, 100-101 Artemisia (soprano), 158 Artist Diploma program, 188-89 artistic voice, 7 Ashkenazi Jews, 4 Assad, Clarice, 210 Babi Yar, 123 Babushka, 9 Bach, Anna Magdelena, 11-12 Bach, J. S., 9-11, 57, 207, 244, 247; performance of, 26-27 baijiu, 235 Baiul, Oksana, 75 Ball, Jesse, 209 ballet, 19 Baltimore, 219; Max in, 103-4 banya, 128-29 Barbie dolls, 43 Barcarolle (Chopin), 198, 204, 205 253
254 ! Index Bareboim, Daniel, 7 von Bulow, Hans, 31 Bargemusic, 204, 205 Bus Ticket Scam, 47 Barsky, Yuri, 5 Bartoli, Cecilia, 89 California University System, 214 Basso Ostinato, 219 Calzedonia, 187 Beasley, Sandra, 209-10 La Campanella, 73,121,134Beethoven, Ludwig van, 7,12, 44, 35,182 73, 114, 144, 231, 240; Faliks, Cape Horn, 35 Inna, learning, 64-65,121-24; Capri, 144 Faliks, Inna, performing, 49, Carcassone: Medici, A., in, 15285, 100-101, 138-39, 163-65, 53,158-59; Shpigelmacher, Μ., 172-73, 189, 191; humor of, in, 152-56 164—65 Carcassonne, 146,152 Beijing, 226-29 Carlin, George, 146 Benvolio (coordinator), 180 Carmen, 14, 16 Berg, Alban, 199-200 Carnaval, 92 Berlusconi, Silvio, 50-51 Carnegie Hall, 144-45,159, Bertrand, Aloyisius, 109 198-99 Bible, 40 Carpathian Mountains, 35 binarios, 175 Castello di Galeazza, 184-87, Bizet, Georges, 14 191-92 Black Sea, 3,12,17-18 Castlegar, 225-26 Blök, Alexander, 134 Cathedral of St. Peter, 46 Blue Whale Jazz Club, 109 The Cat s House, 15,17 В Major Trio (Brahms), 240 Cesano, Renzo, 49 В Minor Sonata (Liszt), 119 Chicago, 27, 221 Bobik (stuffed animal), 79-80 Chicago Chopin Competition, 78 Bohemian National Cemetery, 207 Chicago s Orchestra Hall, 74-75 Bologna, 183-84, 186 Chicago Symphony, 74, 75, 76, Boris (grandfather), 8-9 91-92 Borisovna, Elena, 25 childbirth, 202 Borodin String Quartet, 213-14 Childs, Billy, 109, 111, 247; Brahms, Johannes, 138,139, 155, Pursuit, 109-10, 111 157,178, 182, 188 China: classical music in, 231-35; Bratislava, 38 music conservatories in, 224; Brighton Beach, 136 performing in, 221-25, 223
Bruckner, Anton, 100 Chopin, Frédéric, 29, 31, 44-45, Bulgakov, Elena, 141 56-57, 83, 98, 181, 226; Faliks, Inna, learning, 65, 67-68; Bulgakov, Mikhail, 9, 25, 217; Rosario on, 198 apartment of, 140 Bulichev, Kir, 38 Church of San Giovanni, 47
Index / 255 Cliburn, Van, 69 Clinton, Bill, 101 C Minor op. 111 (Beethoven), 12 C Minor Sonata (Beethoven), 138 C Minor Sonata (Schubert), 201-2 Coca-Cola, 42 College Music Society Bulletin, 211 Colloredo (Archbishop), 160 Colosseum, 47 Colpo Grosso, 50-51 Coming up Upon a Play (Ball), 209 competitions, 69-70, 252; Schein on, 99-100. See also specific topics Concert Artists of Baltimore, 99 Concerto 1 in В-flat Minor, 63 Concerto in G Minor (SaintSaëns), 99 Concerto no. 1 (Liszt), 203-4 Conor, Wayne, 103 Copland, Aaron, 130,134 Corea, Chick, 164 Corona Friday concerts, 238 coronavirus pandemic, 237-38, 246-47 COVID-19, 111 Crevalcore, 184 Culver City, 217 Czechoslovakia, 33-34, 36-37 Czerny, Carl, 115, 244 Dali, Salvador, 100-101,144 Davidsbündlertänze, 195 da Vinci, Leonardo, 175 Dean, Michael, 228 Debussy, Claude, 65, 226 Def Leppard, 44 Denk, Jeremy, 101 Dickinson, Emily, 239 Dictherliebe, 156-57 Dignitas Foundation, 243, 246-47 Direbasovskaya Prospect, 4 discipline, 67, 120-21, 233 Disklavier Library, 212-13 D Minor Concerto (Bach), 207 D Minor Prelude (Shostakovich), 202 Doctor Faustus (Mann), 101 La Dolce Vita, 192-93 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 218 Doukhabors, 226 Drinking Alone under the Moon (Li Bai), 228 Dufresne, Wylie, 204-5 Du Yun, 232 Eaton, John, 210 Emilia Romagna, 174-75; earthquake in, 194; weather in, 187-88 Emperor Concerto, 100 Engels, Friedrich, 181 English language, 62 Erlkönig, 204-5 Eroica Variations, 121-23, 138, 170; humor in, 164-65; Petrushansky on, 172-74; practicing, 163-64 Evenings on the Farm near Dikanka (Gogol), 25 Every Good Boy Does Fine
(Denk), 101 Faliks, Betya (great grandmother), 135, 243-44 Faliks, Frida (daughter), 241-42 Faliks, Inna. See specific topics Faliks, Irene (mother), 1-2, 34, 54-55,193; death of, 237-38; illness of, 238-46
256 ! Index Faliks, Nathaniel (son), 241^12; birth of, 203-4, 208-9 Faliks, Simon (father), 1-2, 3, 34, 54-55,193, 240-41, 244-46 family history, 135-36 Fanni (great-grandmother), 9-11, 32, 33, 36 Fantasie, 14, 138, 209, 231; performance of, 29-30 Fantasie-Impromptu, 29, 57 Fantasie in C Major op. 17 (Schumann, R.), 191-92 Faust (Goethe), 25 Fazioli, Paolo, 101,146 Feldman, Morton, 231 Festa della Madonna Neve Maria Maggiore, 50 Fifth Sonata (Scriabin), 105 Fifth Symphony (Beethoven), 240 Figaro, 16 films, 54, 80 Filmus (doctor), 23 fingertips, 7 First Concerto (Tchaikovsky), 68, 76 First Piano Concertos, 246-47 Fleisher, Leon, 96,145,148, 199, 240; audition for, 114; at Peabody, 113; Rosario on, 116; as teacher, 115-19, 120-23, 148-49,171; technical ideas of, 118-19 Fleming, Renée, 202 Florence (host), 167-68 F Minor Concerto (Bach), 244, 247 F Minor Sonata (Brahms), 138, 178, 182,188 Ford, Harrison, 54 Forest Tale, 15 Fortuna, 50 Foundacion Bemberg, 148 The Four Seasons, 50 Fourth Concerto (Beethoven), 123-24 Fourth Symphony (Mahler), 92 Frauen-Liebe und Leben, 156-57 Freeman, Erin, 92-93 Freidlin, Jan, 17-18 Frisco Kid, 54 Frost Auditorium, 248 Fugue (Shostakovich), 202 Furtwangler, Wilhelm, 121-22 Gagosian Gallery, 242-43 Gao Ping, 226, 228, 232 Garonne River, 146 Gaspard de la Nuit, 65, 98, 109, 138 Gershwin, George, 73,129 Giant Egg, 229 Le Gibet, 109 Gilels, Emil, 169 Gilmore, Patrick, 22 Glass, Philip, 209 Godowsky, Leopold, 100 Gogol, Nikolai, 25, 30,133,140; death of, 141 Goldberg Variations, 207-8 Goldman, Yuri, 45 Good Night Little Ones, 125 Goodwin, Hilda,
177 Goodwin Hilda, 99 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 23 Gorbachev, Raisa, 23 Goskonzert, 137-39 Gould, Glenn, 207-8 gray children, 4 Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra, 126,134,135 Great Flea Market Americana, 48 The Great Gate of Kiev, 249 Great Wall of China, 228
Index / 257 Greenaway, Peter, 205 Grinberg, Maria, 7 Grisha (neighbor), 48 Guangzhou, 231 Guests from the Future (Bulichev), 38 Guns n roses, 44 Gureviche, Anna, 202-3, 204 Gureviche, Mark, 202-3, 204 Haag, John, 201-2 Habanera, 14 Hahn, Hilary, 99 Hancock, Herbie, 111 Harbin, 234 Harbin Performing Art Center, 234-35 Harris, Neil Patrick, 74 Haydn, Joseph, 138 heavy metal rock (HMR), 44 Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS), 40 Heilongjiang, 234 Hess, Myra, 242, 250 HIAS. See Hebrew Immigration Aid Society Highland Park, 238-40 Hilton Head International, 100 HMR. See heavy metal rock Horowitz, 73 hot air balloons, 72 Hugo, Victor, 79 humor, 125-26 Humoresque, 98 Iceberg, 14 Illinois Young Performers Competition, 74-75 immigration, 27, 32, 38; family photo during, 46; of Jewish people, 126 Imola, 174-79; as home, 187 Inkermann, Otto, 157 Inna (classmate), 23-24, 26 International Music Foundation, 249 International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, 69-71, 71, 134-35; performance at, 73-74 Inventions, 12, 26 Israel, 147, 201 Ivanov, Vladimir, 138 Izya, 21 Jacaranda Music, 249 Jane Eyre, 82 Jansson, Tove, 14 Japan: Kim on trip to, 83-87 Jean (student), 207 Jewish people: immigration of, 126; in Odessa, 5; in Soviet Union, 126 Jiffy Lube, 78 Jim (student), 207-8 Jin, Fei, 168 Johns Hopkins, 95 Johnson, Maya Miro, 218-19 Judaism, 54 Julien, Christie, 103 Kabalevsky, Dmitry, 12 Kalish, Gilbert, 199; as teacher, 199-200 Kaluga, 41 Kataev, Valentin, 245 Kerman, Dima (cousin), 55 Kerman, Dolly (aunt), 16, 27, 29, 38, 53-54, 57, 85 Kerman, Ilya (uncle), 53-55 Kerman,
Paul (cousin), 55 Khmelnytskyi, Bohdan, 249
258 ! Index Kim, Matthew, 67-69 Kinderman, Bill, 101 Kinderszenen, 238-39 Kircha, 4 Kiss, 44 Kissin, Evegny, 168 Kiyana (student), 208 Klava (relative), 135-36 Knoxville, 81-83 kokoshinki, 6 Kootenay Lake, 226 Kosciuszko Foundation, 78 Kovacevich, Stephen, 170 Kremer, Gidon, 168 Kremlin, 72 Kyoto, 87 LA County Museum of Art, 210-11 Lama Temple, 228 Landau, Deborah, 210 Lang Lang, 234, 235 Larry Find Memorial Park, 244-45 Laufer, Milton, 198 Lawrence, Clark, 184, 185-86,193 Lawson, Jill, 103 League of David, 195 Led Zeppelin, 77 Lefkowitz, David, 226-28 Lenin, Vladimir, 21, 22, 29, 181 Leningrad Prison, 134 Lermontov, Mikhail, 245 Leschetizky, Theodor, 115 Levine, Mark, 210 Li Bai, 228 Liberius (Pope), 50 Liederkreis, 156-57 Ligovka, 133, 136 Liszt, Franz, 56, 65, 119, 188, 229 Little, Frank, 60 Little Odessa, 136 Lockhart, Keith, 91 Lockspear, Mindy, 63 Los Angeles: moving to, 212-14 Love, Jason, 126,129,135; in Russia, 130-33 Lvovna, Natalia, 15-16 Lysy, Antonio, 226, 229 Madeline (cellist), 132 Mahler, Gustav, 92 The Maiden s Wish, 45, 57 Maisky, Misha, 120 Manezhnaya Square, 72 Mann, Thomas, 101 Mantua, 194 Manuscripts Don t Burn, 218-19 Mao s mausoleum, 229 Mao Zedong, 230 Margulis, Vitaly, 211 marriage: to Max, 88-89; to Shpigelmacher, Μ., 192,193 Marshak, Samuil, 15 Marx, Karl, 181 The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), 9, 25, 38, 50, 139-40,148, 240; musical adaptations of, 217-19 Max (first husband), 76—78, 95; alcoholism of, 104-5; in Baltimore, 103-4; death of, 214-15; divorce from, 104-7; marriage to, 88-89; mother of, 79; Paris trip with, 79-80; senior prom
with, 80-81 Medici, Amalia di: in Carcassone, 152-53, 158-59; fight with, 158-59; at Peabody, 143; student fights with, 145 Medici dynasty, 143
Index / 259 Mephisto, 65 Merlet, Eugene, 198-99 The Messenger, 249 Messiaen, Olivier, 181 Metaphor, 25-26 Michelangelo, 46, 61 Milano Centrale, 166 Les Misérables, 79 Molodykh, Stanislav, 217 MOMA, 78 Moore, David Adam, 210 Moscow Conservatory, 70, 72 mosquitos, 48 Moszkowski, Moritz, 45 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 14, 16, 29-30, 44, 65, 73, 89; crush on, 62; house of, 35-36, 40-41; Rosario performing, 88 Mr. D. See Rosario, Emilio del Musée Rodin, 80 Music Center of the North Shore, 59, 63, 67, 74, 88, 95-96, 119 Music Institute of Chicago, 57, 58,92 Music/Words, 209-10, 218 Mussorgsky, Modest, 4 Nadia (friend of mother), 42-43 Nanjing, 225 National Federation of Music Clubs, 100 National Gallery, 250 National Music School, 5 Naumov, Lev, 169 Nessun Dorma, 228 Neuhaus, Heinrich, 120-21, 168-69 Nevsky Prospect, 133 New Trier High School, 6-77 New York: Shpigelmacher, Μ., in, 162 Neyhaus, Gustav, 10 Neyhaus, Heinrich, 10 Nicol, Leslie, 249 nightclubs, in Russia, 136 Niles North High, 75-76, 80 Nimoniya (translator), 84-85, 87 Northeastern Illinois University, 137; teaching at, 207 Notre Dame, 79-80 Novgorod, 138 Novodevichy Cemetery, 141 Odessa, 1-2, 4-5, 252; home apartment in, 8-9; Jewish people in, 5; last day in, 33 Odessa Literature Museum, 24 Odessa Music Conservatory, 6 Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre, 34 Odessa Philharmonic Hall, 17, 29 Olga (neighbor), 48 oligarchs, 137-38 Olive (landlady), 201 Ondine, 101,107,109 op. 77 Fantasie (Beethoven), 191 Orchestra Hall, 88 Ospedale Israelitio, 49 Ostia, 42 Our Beloved Land, with Its Forests and Rivers, 15 The Overcoat
(Gogol), 30 Ovid, 190 Owl Bar, 123 Parables and Lies (Ball), 209 Paris: with Max, 79-80; with Shpigelmacher, Μ., 161 partying, 119-20 passagiata, 177-78 Pasternak, Boris, 171,198, 209 Pasticceria Rocca, 187
260 / Index Pathétique, 64 Patriarchi Lakes, 140 patrons, 160 Patrych, Joe, 210 Peabody Conservatory, 59, 95-96; Fleisher at, 113; Medici, A., at, 143; pianos at, 97 Peninsula Music Festival, 203-4 perfectionism, 66 Peterhoff, 136 Le Petite Prince (Saint-Exupéry), 148 Petrushansky, Boris, 163, 168, 171,173; on Eroica Variations, 172-74; as judge, 182-83; studies of, 169; as teacher, 172, 176-77, 189-91 Petrushka, 18 pianos, 6-7, 65, 81-82,190; Fazioli, 101,146; first piano in America, 55; learning, 5-11; lessons with Rosario, 63-64; national schools of, 169; as Peabody, 97; playing, 10; practicing, 49, 56-57, 67-68, 147; Russian school of, 169. See also specific topics Piazza Maria Maggiore, 50 Piazza Venezia, 42-43 Pictures at an Exhibition, 4 Pink Flamingoes, 104 Pink Floyd, 77 Place Pigalle, 80 poetry, 3, 208-10, 245 Poetry Foundation, 210 Polochick, Ed, 99 Polonaise-Fantasie, 214 Potemkin stairway, 33 Prater amusement park, 41 Prokofiev, Sergei, 65 Pro Musicis Foundation, 196-98 Pugacheva, Alla, 14 Pushkin, Alexander, 3, 22,134 Qin Shi Huang tomb, 225 Quatro Stagione, 192-93 Queen Elizabeth of Belgium competition, 180-81 Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 55, 68, 100, 115,198 Rakvere, 130,131 Ravel, Maurice, 65, 109, 111, 138; Faliks, Inna, performing, 96-97,101 Reading Retreats in Rural Italy, 184 Red October (piano), 1-2,13 rehearsals, 29-30 Reimagine, 247 religion, in Soviet Union, 4, 40-41 Rhapsody in Blue, 69-70, 73, 77, 127, 130-31; performance in Smolny, 134-35 Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini, 55,100, 107, 115 rhythm, 6 Richter, Gerhardt, 242-43 Richter, Sviatoslav, 4,
7,105,169 Richter, Teofil, 4 Rimma (grandmother), 8-9,12, 80 Rome, 43-47 Rosario, Emilio del, 57-59, 59, 74-75, 98-99, 233; audition for, 59-60; cancer diagnosis, 196-98; on Chopin, 198; death of, 197, 202; on Fleisher, 116; illness of, 202^1; on Japan trip, 83-84, 86-87; lessons with, 6364, 87-88; Mozart performed by, 88; perfectionism of, 66;
Index / 261 rapport with, 65-66; Saturday Night Workshops, 64-65 Rosewood Beach, 245 Rostropovich, Mstislav, 141 Rosy Evening, 44 Rubinstein, Artur, 96 Rückblick, 157-58 Russia, 70,126-27; corruption in, 133; Love in, 130-33; nightclubs in, 136; oligarchs in, 137-38; war with Ukraine, 248-50 Russian Immigrant s Handbook (Shteyngart), 138-39 Russian language, 125-26, 132, 249 Russian Orthodox Church, 138 Russian school of piano, 169 Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 148 Saint-Saëns, Camille, 99 Salieri, Antonio, 62 Sam (dog), 53, 56 Santa Maria dei Fiori, 183 Santa Maria Immacolata Concezione, 47 Santa Maria Maggiore, 50 Santa Maria-Teresa convent, 177 Santa Sophia, 234 sanxian, 226, 227 Saturday Night Workshops, 64-65 saxophone, 137 Scala, Franco, 174, 176,177 Scarbo, 109-10 Schein, Ann, 95,101,117,188-89; on competitions, 99-100; as teacher, 96-99, 107-8,113-14 Schiele, Egon, 199-200 Schlosberg, Daniel, 96, 102,103, 114-15,116,119, 210 Schnabel, Artur, 115, 145, 160, 181 Schoenberg, Arnold, 199-200, 211 Schoenberg Hall, 214 school, 61 Schubert, Franz, 114, 120,164, 181, 201-2, 204 Schumann, Clara, 12, 91, 93, 155, 156-57 Schumann, Robert, 91, 92, 93, 156-57, 191-92, 222 Scriabin, Alexander, 105, 111, 170-71 The Seasons, 238 Second Concerto (Rachmaninoff), 68 Segal, Joes, 217 Selkirk Mountains, 226 senior prom, 80 sex, 78 sexism, 189 Shan Cheng, 226, 228-30 Shchedrin, Rodrion, 219 Shenzhen, 221 Sheppard, Michael, 100,146,149, 154,155 Sheremetyevo International Airport, 71,137 Shevchenko, Taras, 126 Shostakovich, Dmitri, 115,121, 123, 202; quartets of, 214 Shpigelmacher, Misha,
62, 67, 215; in Carcassone, 152-56; in childhood, 20, 23-24, 30-32, 33; email contact from, 147-48; marriage to, 192,193; meeting with, 149-50; in New York, 162; Paris trip with, 161; romantic involvement with, 161-62; sheep drawing
262 ! Index from, 151; wedding invitation cartoon by, 194 Shpigelmacher, Nolik, 147,150 Shpigelmacher, Rimma, 147 Shpilka. See Shpigelmacher, Misha Shteyngart, Gary, 138-39 Silvestrov, Valentin, 249 Sinfonias, 12 Skokie, 75-76 skovorodka, 44 Skype, 212-13 skyscrapers, 221 Slater, Christian, 62 Smolny Cathedral, 131,135; Rhapsody in Blue performed in, 134-35 Socialism, 136 Solnechnii Krug, 2 Sonata in А-flat Major (Beethoven), 144 Sonata in F Minor (Brahms), 157 Sonata no. 5 (Scriabin), 170 Sonata no. 21 (Beethoven), 189-90 Sonata no. 28 (Beethoven), 231 Sonatine, 95 Song of the Sea Lion, 17-18 Soot, Raul, 127-28,129 sound, 6 Soviet Union, 1-2, 21, 61, 246; collapse of, 69-70, 125, 138; Jewish people in, 126; musicians in, 232; religion in, 4, 40-41; trauma from, 229; treatment of foreigners in, 70-71 spinet, 55, 55-56, 56 Stacy (intern), 185 Stalin, Joseph, 22, 72, 230; purges of, 141 St. James Church, 242 St. Louis, 100 Stolyarsky School, 17 Stony Brook University, 162, 199-201 St. Petersburg, 131; city center, 133-34; crime in, 133 Stravinsky, Igor, 18,169 String Quartet no. 15 (Beethoven), 183 St. Stephen s Cathedral, 40 Stulberg, Neal, 228 Svetlana (translator), 131-32 swimming, 13 Swiss Alps, 167-68 symbolists, 134 Symphonic Etude (Schumann, R.), 215 Symphonic Etudes, 222 Szechuan peppercorn, 230-31 Tanaka, Hiroyuki, 244 Tanya (aunt of Shpigelmacher, Μ.), 211 Tarantella, 229 Taras Shevchenko (ship), 28 Tarkovsky, Andrei, 185 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilych, 12,16, 56, 63, 76,115, 246M7; country house of, 139 tea ceremony, 208 teachers and teaching: Faliks, Inna,
application to UCLA, 211; Faliks, Inna, at Northeastern Illinois University, 207; Fleisher as, 115-19,120-23,148-49, 171; Kalish as, 199-200; Petrushansky as, 172,176-77, 189-91; Schein as, 96-99, 1078,113-14 Temirkanov, Yuri, 123
Index I 263 Temple of Heaven, 228 Terra-Cotta Army, 225 Third Symphony (Beethoven), 164 Thirteenth Symphony (Shostakovich), 123 This Is Just to Say, 21 Tiananmen Square, 229 Torzhok, 138 Toscanini, Arturo, 121 Toulouse, 143-44,147 Truffaut, François, 77-78 Tver, 138-39 UCLA, 118-19, 232; teaching application at, 211 Ukraine, 126,140; fundraiser, 249-50; Russian war with, 248-50; Ukrainian identity, 252 Uncle Misha, 70 United States, 27-28; travel to, 36-38 University of Arkadelphia, 101 University of Fukui, 85-86 Uzhgorod, 36 Vaises Nobles and Sentimentales, 207 Val Tidone, 180,181,188 VCRs, 54, 62 Venice, 46 Venice Classic Radio, 245-46 Verbier, 163-64,167-68,189 Verdi, Giuseppe, 16 Via Trastevere, 43, 47 Victor Emmanuel II Monument, 43-44 Vienna, 35-36, 38, 39 violin, 6 Vivaldi, Antonio, 50 Voinovich, Vladimir, 71 Wagner, Richard, 103 Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 213 Wanderer Fantasie, 120, 164 Waters, John, 104 WD-50, 204-5 Weber, Contanze, 40 Webern, Anton, 199-200 Weill Recital Hall, 143-44, 199, 202 Weitzmann Institute of Science, 150 Well-Tempered Klavier, 26 Wende Museum, 217 When Johnny Comes Marching Home, 22 Wieck, Clara, 156-57 Wilder, Gene, 54 Williams, William Carlos, 21 Wilmette, 60 Wilmette Junior High School, 61-62 Wilshire Boulevard, 213-14 Wintergreen, 92 World War II, 10-11 xenophobia, 233 Xi an, 226 Xinghai Conservatory, 231 Yalta, 28 Yamaguchi, Christie, 74 Yamaha, 162,190, 212 Yampolsky, Victor, 203-4 Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 123 Youku, 222 Young Arts LA, 218 Yuja Wang, 234 Zabila, Natalya, 126 Zelensky, Volodymyr, 249
264 / Index Zhao, Deng, 231 Zhenya (friend), 140 zherebyovka lottery, 72 Zhou Long, 232 Zipper, Herbert, 59 Zipper Hall, 59 Zoom, 238-39, 242 Zurkan, Yuri, 185 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Mönchen
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CONTENTS xi Acknowledgments xiii Prelude 1 Bach Sound, Spoon Rhythm 2 Shpilka 19 3 Down and Out in Vienna and Rome 35 4 Weight in the Fingertips 53 1 Interlude: Clara Wieck-Schumann, Concerto in A Minor and Sonata in G Minor 5 91 Pink Flamingoes 95 109 Interlude: Maurice Ravel, Scarbo; Billy Childs, Pursuit 6 113 The Inevitability of Leon 7 Rhapsody in Blue, Russian Style 8 The Medicis Live On, or How I Met Shpigelmacher Again Interlude: What's So Great about Beethoven Anyway? Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations ix 125 143 163
X ! Contents A Return to Italy 167 10 Eat the World 195 11 JFK-LAX 207 9 Interlude: Maya Miro Johnson, "Manuscripts Don't Burn" 217 12 Voices of Beijing 221 13 Alone, a White Sail Gleams 237 Postlude: Yellow and Blue 249 Index 253
INDEX Abraham, F. Murray, 62 Abramovich, Roman, 185 Accademia Pianistica Internazionale, 168,173, 174, 183 accordionists, 182-83 Ace Gallery, 213-14 Admission: One Shilling, 249 Adventures ofMoomi Trolls (Jansson), 14 Agerich, Martha, 120 Ai Wei Wei, 229 Alexey (housemate), 201 Alfredo (pianist), 179-80 Allen, Kitty, 114,116 Allen, Woody, 77-78 allergies, 48 Alone, A White Sail Gleams (Kataev), 245 Amadeus (film), 62 Ammara, Alessandra, 181,185 Anastasia (friend), 12-13,18, 33 Anatolievna, Valentina, 5, 7,11, 26 Andrei Rublev, 185 Annushka (friend), 44 anti-Semitism, 20-21, 32, 89 Appalachian Spring, 130 Appassionata, 85, 242-43, 250 "Arietta," 101-2 Arkansas, 100-101 Artemisia (soprano), 158 Artist Diploma program, 188-89 artistic voice, 7 Ashkenazi Jews, 4 Assad, Clarice, 210 Babi Yar, 123 Babushka, 9 Bach, Anna Magdelena, 11-12 Bach, J. S., 9-11, 57, 207, 244, 247; performance of, 26-27 baijiu, 235 Baiul, Oksana, 75 Ball, Jesse, 209 ballet, 19 Baltimore, 219; Max in, 103-4 banya, 128-29 Barbie dolls, 43 Barcarolle (Chopin), 198, 204, 205 253
254 ! Index Bareboim, Daniel, 7 von Bulow, Hans, 31 Bargemusic, 204, 205 Bus Ticket Scam, 47 Barsky, Yuri, 5 Bartoli, Cecilia, 89 California University System, 214 Basso Ostinato, 219 Calzedonia, 187 Beasley, Sandra, 209-10 "La Campanella," 73,121,134Beethoven, Ludwig van, 7,12, 44, 35,182 73, 114, 144, 231, 240; Faliks, Cape Horn, 35 Inna, learning, 64-65,121-24; Capri, 144 Faliks, Inna, performing, 49, Carcassone: Medici, A., in, 15285, 100-101, 138-39, 163-65, 53,158-59; Shpigelmacher, Μ., 172-73, 189, 191; humor of, in, 152-56 164—65 Carcassonne, 146,152 Beijing, 226-29 Carlin, George, 146 Benvolio (coordinator), 180 Carmen, 14, 16 Berg, Alban, 199-200 Carnaval, 92 Berlusconi, Silvio, 50-51 Carnegie Hall, 144-45,159, Bertrand, Aloyisius, 109 198-99 Bible, 40 Carpathian Mountains, 35 binarios, 175 Castello di Galeazza, 184-87, Bizet, Georges, 14 191-92 Black Sea, 3,12,17-18 Castlegar, 225-26 Blök, Alexander, 134 Cathedral of St. Peter, 46 Blue Whale Jazz Club, 109 The Cat's House, 15,17 В Major Trio (Brahms), 240 Cesano, Renzo, 49 В Minor Sonata (Liszt), 119 Chicago, 27, 221 Bobik (stuffed animal), 79-80 Chicago Chopin Competition, 78 Bohemian National Cemetery, 207 Chicago's Orchestra Hall, 74-75 Bologna, 183-84, 186 Chicago Symphony, 74, 75, 76, Boris (grandfather), 8-9 91-92 Borisovna, Elena, 25 childbirth, 202 Borodin String Quartet, 213-14 Childs, Billy, 109, 111, 247; Brahms, Johannes, 138,139, 155, Pursuit, 109-10, 111 157,178, 182, 188 China: classical music in, 231-35; Bratislava, 38 music conservatories in, 224; Brighton Beach, 136 performing in, 221-25, 223
Bruckner, Anton, 100 Chopin, Frédéric, 29, 31, 44-45, Bulgakov, Elena, 141 56-57, 83, 98, 181, 226; Faliks, Inna, learning, 65, 67-68; Bulgakov, Mikhail, 9, 25, 217; Rosario on, 198 apartment of, 140 Bulichev, Kir, 38 Church of San Giovanni, 47
Index / 255 Cliburn, Van, 69 Clinton, Bill, 101 C Minor op. 111 (Beethoven), 12 C Minor Sonata (Beethoven), 138 C Minor Sonata (Schubert), 201-2 Coca-Cola, 42 College Music Society Bulletin, 211 Colloredo (Archbishop), 160 Colosseum, 47 Colpo Grosso, 50-51 "Coming up Upon a Play" (Ball), 209 competitions, 69-70, 252; Schein on, 99-100. See also specific topics Concert Artists of Baltimore, 99 Concerto 1 in В-flat Minor, 63 Concerto in G Minor (SaintSaëns), 99 Concerto no. 1 (Liszt), 203-4 Conor, Wayne, 103 Copland, Aaron, 130,134 Corea, Chick, 164 Corona Friday concerts, 238 coronavirus pandemic, 237-38, 246-47 COVID-19, 111 Crevalcore, 184 Culver City, 217 Czechoslovakia, 33-34, 36-37 Czerny, Carl, 115, 244 Dali, Salvador, 100-101,144 Davidsbündlertänze, 195 da Vinci, Leonardo, 175 Dean, Michael, 228 Debussy, Claude, 65, 226 Def Leppard, 44 Denk, Jeremy, 101 Dickinson, Emily, 239 Dictherliebe, 156-57 Dignitas Foundation, 243, 246-47 Direbasovskaya Prospect, 4 discipline, 67, 120-21, 233 Disklavier Library, 212-13 D Minor Concerto (Bach), 207 D Minor Prelude (Shostakovich), 202 Doctor Faustus (Mann), 101 La Dolce Vita, 192-93 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 218 Doukhabors, 226 "Drinking Alone under the Moon" (Li Bai), 228 Dufresne, Wylie, 204-5 Du Yun, 232 Eaton, John, 210 Emilia Romagna, 174-75; earthquake in, 194; weather in, 187-88 Emperor Concerto, 100 Engels, Friedrich, 181 English language, 62 Erlkönig, 204-5 Eroica Variations, 121-23, 138, 170; humor in, 164-65; Petrushansky on, 172-74; practicing, 163-64 Evenings on the Farm near Dikanka (Gogol), 25 Every Good Boy Does Fine
(Denk), 101 Faliks, Betya (great grandmother), 135, 243-44 Faliks, Frida (daughter), 241-42 Faliks, Inna. See specific topics Faliks, Irene (mother), 1-2, 34, 54-55,193; death of, 237-38; illness of, 238-46
256 ! Index Faliks, Nathaniel (son), 241^12; birth of, 203-4, 208-9 Faliks, Simon (father), 1-2, 3, 34, 54-55,193, 240-41, 244-46 family history, 135-36 Fanni (great-grandmother), 9-11, 32, 33, 36 Fantasie, 14, 138, 209, 231; performance of, 29-30 Fantasie-Impromptu, 29, 57 Fantasie in C Major op. 17 (Schumann, R.), 191-92 Faust (Goethe), 25 Fazioli, Paolo, 101,146 Feldman, Morton, 231 Festa della Madonna Neve Maria Maggiore, 50 Fifth Sonata (Scriabin), 105 Fifth Symphony (Beethoven), 240 Figaro, 16 films, 54, 80 Filmus (doctor), 23 fingertips, 7 First Concerto (Tchaikovsky), 68, 76 First Piano Concertos, 246-47 Fleisher, Leon, 96,145,148, 199, 240; audition for, 114; at Peabody, 113; Rosario on, 116; as teacher, 115-19, 120-23, 148-49,171; technical ideas of, 118-19 Fleming, Renée, 202 Florence (host), 167-68 F Minor Concerto (Bach), 244, 247 F Minor Sonata (Brahms), 138, 178, 182,188 Ford, Harrison, 54 "Forest Tale," 15 Fortuna, 50 Foundacion Bemberg, 148 The Four Seasons, 50 Fourth Concerto (Beethoven), 123-24 Fourth Symphony (Mahler), 92 Frauen-Liebe und Leben, 156-57 Freeman, Erin, 92-93 Freidlin, Jan, 17-18 Frisco Kid, 54 Frost Auditorium, 248 Fugue (Shostakovich), 202 Furtwangler, Wilhelm, 121-22 Gagosian Gallery, 242-43 Gao Ping, 226, 228, 232 Garonne River, 146 Gaspard de la Nuit, 65, 98, 109, 138 Gershwin, George, 73,129 Giant Egg, 229 Le Gibet, 109 Gilels, Emil, 169 Gilmore, Patrick, 22 Glass, Philip, 209 Godowsky, Leopold, 100 Gogol, Nikolai, 25, 30,133,140; death of, 141 Goldberg Variations, 207-8 Goldman, Yuri, 45 Good Night Little Ones, 125 Goodwin, Hilda,
177 Goodwin Hilda, 99 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 23 Gorbachev, Raisa, 23 Goskonzert, 137-39 Gould, Glenn, 207-8 gray children, 4 Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra, 126,134,135 Great Flea Market Americana, 48 The Great Gate of Kiev, 249 Great Wall of China, 228
Index / 257 Greenaway, Peter, 205 Grinberg, Maria, 7 Grisha (neighbor), 48 Guangzhou, 231 Guests from the Future (Bulichev), 38 Guns 'n' roses, 44 Gureviche, Anna, 202-3, 204 Gureviche, Mark, 202-3, 204 Haag, John, 201-2 "Habanera," 14 Hahn, Hilary, 99 Hancock, Herbie, 111 Harbin, 234 Harbin Performing Art Center, 234-35 Harris, Neil Patrick, 74 Haydn, Joseph, 138 heavy metal rock (HMR), 44 Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS), 40 Heilongjiang, 234 Hess, Myra, 242, 250 HIAS. See Hebrew Immigration Aid Society Highland Park, 238-40 Hilton Head International, 100 HMR. See heavy metal rock Horowitz, 73 hot air balloons, 72 Hugo, Victor, 79 humor, 125-26 Humoresque, 98 "Iceberg," 14 Illinois Young Performers Competition, 74-75 immigration, 27, 32, 38; family photo during, 46; of Jewish people, 126 Imola, 174-79; as home, 187 Inkermann, Otto, 157 Inna (classmate), 23-24, 26 International Music Foundation, 249 International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, 69-71, 71, 134-35; performance at, 73-74 Inventions, 12, 26 Israel, 147, 201 Ivanov, Vladimir, 138 Izya, 21 Jacaranda Music, 249 Jane Eyre, 82 Jansson, Tove, 14 Japan: Kim on trip to, 83-87 Jean (student), 207 Jewish people: immigration of, 126; in Odessa, 5; in Soviet Union, 126 Jiffy Lube, 78 Jim (student), 207-8 Jin, Fei, 168 Johns Hopkins, 95 Johnson, Maya Miro, 218-19 Judaism, 54 Julien, Christie, 103 Kabalevsky, Dmitry, 12 Kalish, Gilbert, 199; as teacher, 199-200 Kaluga, 41 Kataev, Valentin, 245 Kerman, Dima (cousin), 55 Kerman, Dolly (aunt), 16, 27, 29, 38, 53-54, 57, 85 Kerman, Ilya (uncle), 53-55 Kerman,
Paul (cousin), 55 Khmelnytskyi, Bohdan, 249
258 ! Index Kim, Matthew, 67-69 Kinderman, Bill, 101 Kinderszenen, 238-39 Kircha, 4 Kiss, 44 Kissin, Evegny, 168 Kiyana (student), 208 Klava (relative), 135-36 Knoxville, 81-83 kokoshinki, 6 Kootenay Lake, 226 Kosciuszko Foundation, 78 Kovacevich, Stephen, 170 Kremer, Gidon, 168 Kremlin, 72 Kyoto, 87 LA County Museum of Art, 210-11 Lama Temple, 228 Landau, Deborah, 210 Lang Lang, 234, 235 Larry Find Memorial Park, 244-45 Laufer, Milton, 198 Lawrence, Clark, 184, 185-86,193 Lawson, Jill, 103 League of David, 195 Led Zeppelin, 77 Lefkowitz, David, 226-28 Lenin, Vladimir, 21, 22, 29, 181 Leningrad Prison, 134 Lermontov, Mikhail, 245 Leschetizky, Theodor, 115 Levine, Mark, 210 Li Bai, 228 Liberius (Pope), 50 Liederkreis, 156-57 Ligovka, 133, 136 Liszt, Franz, 56, 65, 119, 188, 229 Little, Frank, 60 Little Odessa, 136 Lockhart, Keith, 91 Lockspear, Mindy, 63 Los Angeles: moving to, 212-14 Love, Jason, 126,129,135; in Russia, 130-33 Lvovna, Natalia, 15-16 Lysy, Antonio, 226, 229 Madeline (cellist), 132 Mahler, Gustav, 92 The Maiden's Wish, 45, 57 Maisky, Misha, 120 Manezhnaya Square, 72 Mann, Thomas, 101 Mantua, 194 "Manuscripts Don't Burn," 218-19 Mao's mausoleum, 229 Mao Zedong, 230 Margulis, Vitaly, 211 marriage: to Max, 88-89; to Shpigelmacher, Μ., 192,193 Marshak, Samuil, 15 Marx, Karl, 181 The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), 9, 25, 38, 50, 139-40,148, 240; musical adaptations of, 217-19 Max (first husband), 76—78, 95; alcoholism of, 104-5; in Baltimore, 103-4; death of, 214-15; divorce from, 104-7; marriage to, 88-89; mother of, 79; Paris trip with, 79-80; senior prom
with, 80-81 Medici, Amalia di: in Carcassone, 152-53, 158-59; fight with, 158-59; at Peabody, 143; student fights with, 145 Medici dynasty, 143
Index / 259 Mephisto, 65 Merlet, Eugene, 198-99 The Messenger, 249 Messiaen, Olivier, 181 Metaphor, 25-26 Michelangelo, 46, 61 Milano Centrale, 166 Les Misérables, 79 Molodykh, Stanislav, 217 MOMA, 78 Moore, David Adam, 210 Moscow Conservatory, 70, 72 mosquitos, 48 Moszkowski, Moritz, 45 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 14, 16, 29-30, 44, 65, 73, 89; crush on, 62; house of, 35-36, 40-41; Rosario performing, 88 Mr. D. See Rosario, Emilio del Musée Rodin, 80 Music Center of the North Shore, 59, 63, 67, 74, 88, 95-96, 119 Music Institute of Chicago, 57, 58,92 Music/Words, 209-10, 218 Mussorgsky, Modest, 4 Nadia (friend of mother), 42-43 Nanjing, 225 National Federation of Music Clubs, 100 National Gallery, 250 National Music School, 5 Naumov, Lev, 169 "Nessun Dorma," 228 Neuhaus, Heinrich, 120-21, 168-69 Nevsky Prospect, 133 New Trier High School, 6-77 New York: Shpigelmacher, Μ., in, 162 Neyhaus, Gustav, 10 Neyhaus, Heinrich, 10 Nicol, Leslie, 249 nightclubs, in Russia, 136 Niles North High, 75-76, 80 Nimoniya (translator), 84-85, 87 Northeastern Illinois University, 137; teaching at, 207 Notre Dame, 79-80 Novgorod, 138 Novodevichy Cemetery, 141 Odessa, 1-2, 4-5, 252; home apartment in, 8-9; Jewish people in, 5; last day in, 33 Odessa Literature Museum, 24 Odessa Music Conservatory, 6 Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre, 34 Odessa Philharmonic Hall, 17, 29 Olga (neighbor), 48 oligarchs, 137-38 Olive (landlady), 201 Ondine, 101,107,109 op. 77 Fantasie (Beethoven), 191 Orchestra Hall, 88 Ospedale Israelitio, 49 Ostia, 42 "Our Beloved Land, with Its Forests and Rivers," 15 The Overcoat
(Gogol), 30 Ovid, 190 Owl Bar, 123 Parables and Lies (Ball), 209 Paris: with Max, 79-80; with Shpigelmacher, Μ., 161 partying, 119-20 passagiata, 177-78 Pasternak, Boris, 171,198, 209 Pasticceria Rocca, 187
260 / Index Pathétique, 64 Patriarchi Lakes, 140 patrons, 160 Patrych, Joe, 210 Peabody Conservatory, 59, 95-96; Fleisher at, 113; Medici, A., at, 143; pianos at, 97 Peninsula Music Festival, 203-4 perfectionism, 66 Peterhoff, 136 Le Petite Prince (Saint-Exupéry), 148 Petrushansky, Boris, 163, 168, 171,173; on Eroica Variations, 172-74; as judge, 182-83; studies of, 169; as teacher, 172, 176-77, 189-91 Petrushka, 18 pianos, 6-7, 65, 81-82,190; Fazioli, 101,146; first piano in America, 55; learning, 5-11; lessons with Rosario, 63-64; national schools of, 169; as Peabody, 97; playing, 10; practicing, 49, 56-57, 67-68, 147; Russian school of, 169. See also specific topics Piazza Maria Maggiore, 50 Piazza Venezia, 42-43 Pictures at an Exhibition, 4 Pink Flamingoes, 104 Pink Floyd, 77 Place Pigalle, 80 poetry, 3, 208-10, 245 Poetry Foundation, 210 Polochick, Ed, 99 Polonaise-Fantasie, 214 Potemkin stairway, 33 Prater amusement park, 41 Prokofiev, Sergei, 65 Pro Musicis Foundation, 196-98 Pugacheva, Alla, 14 Pushkin, Alexander, 3, 22,134 Qin Shi Huang tomb, 225 Quatro Stagione, 192-93 Queen Elizabeth of Belgium competition, 180-81 Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 55, 68, 100, 115,198 Rakvere, 130,131 Ravel, Maurice, 65, 109, 111, 138; Faliks, Inna, performing, 96-97,101 Reading Retreats in Rural Italy, 184 Red October (piano), 1-2,13 rehearsals, 29-30 Reimagine, 247 religion, in Soviet Union, 4, 40-41 Rhapsody in Blue, 69-70, 73, 77, 127, 130-31; performance in Smolny, 134-35 Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini, 55,100, 107, 115 rhythm, 6 Richter, Gerhardt, 242-43 Richter, Sviatoslav, 4,
7,105,169 Richter, Teofil, 4 Rimma (grandmother), 8-9,12, 80 Rome, 43-47 Rosario, Emilio del, 57-59, 59, 74-75, 98-99, 233; audition for, 59-60; cancer diagnosis, 196-98; on Chopin, 198; death of, 197, 202; on Fleisher, 116; illness of, 202^1; on Japan trip, 83-84, 86-87; lessons with, 6364, 87-88; Mozart performed by, 88; perfectionism of, 66;
Index / 261 rapport with, 65-66; Saturday Night Workshops, 64-65 Rosewood Beach, 245 Rostropovich, Mstislav, 141 "Rosy Evening," 44 Rubinstein, Artur, 96 "Rückblick," 157-58 Russia, 70,126-27; corruption in, 133; Love in, 130-33; nightclubs in, 136; oligarchs in, 137-38; war with Ukraine, 248-50 Russian Immigrant's Handbook (Shteyngart), 138-39 Russian language, 125-26, 132, 249 Russian Orthodox Church, 138 Russian school of piano, 169 Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 148 Saint-Saëns, Camille, 99 Salieri, Antonio, 62 Sam (dog), 53, 56 Santa Maria dei Fiori, 183 Santa Maria Immacolata Concezione, 47 Santa Maria Maggiore, 50 Santa Maria-Teresa convent, 177 Santa Sophia, 234 sanxian, 226, 227 Saturday Night Workshops, 64-65 saxophone, 137 Scala, Franco, 174, 176,177 Scarbo, 109-10 Schein, Ann, 95,101,117,188-89; on competitions, 99-100; as teacher, 96-99, 107-8,113-14 Schiele, Egon, 199-200 Schlosberg, Daniel, 96, 102,103, 114-15,116,119, 210 Schnabel, Artur, 115, 145, 160, 181 Schoenberg, Arnold, 199-200, 211 Schoenberg Hall, 214 school, 61 Schubert, Franz, 114, 120,164, 181, 201-2, 204 Schumann, Clara, 12, 91, 93, 155, 156-57 Schumann, Robert, 91, 92, 93, 156-57, 191-92, 222 Scriabin, Alexander, 105, 111, 170-71 The Seasons, 238 Second Concerto (Rachmaninoff), 68 Segal, Joes, 217 Selkirk Mountains, 226 senior prom, 80 sex, 78 sexism, 189 Shan Cheng, 226, 228-30 Shchedrin, Rodrion, 219 Shenzhen, 221 Sheppard, Michael, 100,146,149, 154,155 Sheremetyevo International Airport, 71,137 Shevchenko, Taras, 126 Shostakovich, Dmitri, 115,121, 123, 202; quartets of, 214 Shpigelmacher, Misha,
62, 67, 215; in Carcassone, 152-56; in childhood, 20, 23-24, 30-32, 33; email contact from, 147-48; marriage to, 192,193; meeting with, 149-50; in New York, 162; Paris trip with, 161; romantic involvement with, 161-62; sheep drawing
262 ! Index from, 151; wedding invitation cartoon by, 194 Shpigelmacher, Nolik, 147,150 Shpigelmacher, Rimma, 147 Shpilka. See Shpigelmacher, Misha Shteyngart, Gary, 138-39 Silvestrov, Valentin, 249 Sinfonias, 12 Skokie, 75-76 skovorodka, 44 Skype, 212-13 skyscrapers, 221 Slater, Christian, 62 Smolny Cathedral, 131,135; Rhapsody in Blue performed in, 134-35 Socialism, 136 "Solnechnii Krug," 2 Sonata in А-flat Major (Beethoven), 144 Sonata in F Minor (Brahms), 157 Sonata no. 5 (Scriabin), 170 Sonata no. 21 (Beethoven), 189-90 Sonata no. 28 (Beethoven), 231 Sonatine, 95 "Song of the Sea Lion," 17-18 Soot, Raul, 127-28,129 sound, 6 Soviet Union, 1-2, 21, 61, 246; collapse of, 69-70, 125, 138; Jewish people in, 126; musicians in, 232; religion in, 4, 40-41; trauma from, 229; treatment of foreigners in, 70-71 spinet, 55, 55-56, 56 Stacy (intern), 185 Stalin, Joseph, 22, 72, 230; purges of, 141 St. James Church, 242 St. Louis, 100 Stolyarsky School, 17 Stony Brook University, 162, 199-201 St. Petersburg, 131; city center, 133-34; crime in, 133 Stravinsky, Igor, 18,169 String Quartet no. 15 (Beethoven), 183 St. Stephen's Cathedral, 40 Stulberg, Neal, 228 Svetlana (translator), 131-32 swimming, 13 Swiss Alps, 167-68 symbolists, 134 Symphonic Etude (Schumann, R.), 215 Symphonic Etudes, 222 Szechuan peppercorn, 230-31 Tanaka, Hiroyuki, 244 Tanya (aunt of Shpigelmacher, Μ.), 211 "Tarantella," 229 Taras Shevchenko (ship), 28 Tarkovsky, Andrei, 185 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilych, 12,16, 56, 63, 76,115, 246M7; country house of, 139 tea ceremony, 208 teachers and teaching: Faliks, Inna,
application to UCLA, 211; Faliks, Inna, at Northeastern Illinois University, 207; Fleisher as, 115-19,120-23,148-49, 171; Kalish as, 199-200; Petrushansky as, 172,176-77, 189-91; Schein as, 96-99, 1078,113-14 Temirkanov, Yuri, 123
Index I 263 Temple of Heaven, 228 Terra-Cotta Army, 225 Third Symphony (Beethoven), 164 Thirteenth Symphony (Shostakovich), 123 "This Is Just to Say," 21 Tiananmen Square, 229 Torzhok, 138 Toscanini, Arturo, 121 Toulouse, 143-44,147 Truffaut, François, 77-78 Tver, 138-39 UCLA, 118-19, 232; teaching application at, 211 Ukraine, 126,140; fundraiser, 249-50; Russian war with, 248-50; Ukrainian identity, 252 Uncle Misha, 70 United States, 27-28; travel to, 36-38 University of Arkadelphia, 101 University of Fukui, 85-86 Uzhgorod, 36 Vaises Nobles and Sentimentales, 207 Val Tidone, 180,181,188 VCRs, 54, 62 Venice, 46 Venice Classic Radio, 245-46 Verbier, 163-64,167-68,189 Verdi, Giuseppe, 16 Via Trastevere, 43, 47 Victor Emmanuel II Monument, 43-44 Vienna, 35-36, 38, 39 violin, 6 Vivaldi, Antonio, 50 Voinovich, Vladimir, 71 Wagner, Richard, 103 Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 213 Wanderer Fantasie, 120, 164 Waters, John, 104 WD-50, 204-5 Weber, Contanze, 40 Webern, Anton, 199-200 Weill Recital Hall, 143-44, 199, 202 Weitzmann Institute of Science, 150 Well-Tempered Klavier, 26 Wende Museum, 217 "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," 22 Wieck, Clara, 156-57 Wilder, Gene, 54 Williams, William Carlos, 21 Wilmette, 60 Wilmette Junior High School, 61-62 Wilshire Boulevard, 213-14 Wintergreen, 92 World War II, 10-11 xenophobia, 233 Xi'an, 226 Xinghai Conservatory, 231 Yalta, 28 Yamaguchi, Christie, 74 Yamaha, 162,190, 212 Yampolsky, Victor, 203-4 Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 123 Youku, 222 Young Arts LA, 218 Yuja Wang, 234 Zabila, Natalya, 126 Zelensky, Volodymyr, 249
264 / Index Zhao, Deng, 231 Zhenya (friend), 140 zherebyovka lottery, 72 Zhou Long, 232 Zipper, Herbert, 59 Zipper Hall, 59 Zoom, 238-39, 242 Zurkan, Yuri, 185 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Mönchen |
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| contents | Prelude -- Bach Sound, Spoon Rhythm -- Shpilka -- Down and Out in Vienna and Rome -- Weight in the Fingertips -- Interlude : Clara Wieck-Schumann, Concerto in A Minor and Sonata in G Minor -- Pink Flamingoes -- Interlude : Maurice Ravel, Scarbo; Billy Childs, Pursuit -- The Inevitability of Leon -- Rhapsody in Blue, Russian Style -- The Medicis Live On (or, How I Met Shpigelmacher Again) -- Interlude: What's So Great about Beethoven Anyway? Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations -- A Return to Italy -- Eat the World -- JFK-LAX -- Interlude : Maya Miro Johnson, "Manuscripts Don't Burn" -- Voices of Beijing -- Alone, a White Sail Gleams -- Postlude : Yellow and Blue |
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| spelling | Faliks, Inna ca. 20./21. Jh. Verfasser (DE-588)1317777433 aut Weight in the fingertips a musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the world stage Inna Faliks Essex, Connecticut Backbeat Books [2023] [Lanham, Maryland] National Book Network xiv, 264 Seiten illustrations 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index Prelude -- Bach Sound, Spoon Rhythm -- Shpilka -- Down and Out in Vienna and Rome -- Weight in the Fingertips -- Interlude : Clara Wieck-Schumann, Concerto in A Minor and Sonata in G Minor -- Pink Flamingoes -- Interlude : Maurice Ravel, Scarbo; Billy Childs, Pursuit -- The Inevitability of Leon -- Rhapsody in Blue, Russian Style -- The Medicis Live On (or, How I Met Shpigelmacher Again) -- Interlude: What's So Great about Beethoven Anyway? Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations -- A Return to Italy -- Eat the World -- JFK-LAX -- Interlude : Maya Miro Johnson, "Manuscripts Don't Burn" -- Voices of Beijing -- Alone, a White Sail Gleams -- Postlude : Yellow and Blue "A memoir offering powerful insights into the role of music in a world of conflict, change, and hope for a better tomorrow"-- Faliks, Inna ca. 20./21. Jh. (DE-588)1317777433 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte gnd rswk-swf Pianistin (DE-588)4426550-5 gnd rswk-swf Ukraine (DE-588)4061496-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Faliks, Inna Pianists / United States / Biography Pianistes / États-Unis / Biographies Pianists United States autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies (DE-588)4003939-0 Autobiografie gnd-content Faliks, Inna ca. 20./21. Jh. (DE-588)1317777433 p DE-604 Ukraine (DE-588)4061496-7 g USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Pianistin (DE-588)4426550-5 s Geschichte z Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 9781493071753 Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034775800&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034775800&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Register // Gemischte Register |
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