Volume 44, Number 7 · April 24, 1997
Two Cheers for Rach 3
By Joseph Kerman
If classical music is dying, as we know must be the case, for The New York Times tells us so on a regular basis, its death spasms are certainly momentous. First the Four Seasons, then the Three Tenors, the Monks, Anonymous Four, Mozart covers by Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea, and now Shine. Young David's nemesis in the movie, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, composed for an American tour in 1909, has entered popular culture like Mozart's 'Elvira Madigan' Concerto and God reaching out to Man on the Sistine Ceiling. Reviewing a PBS program on intelligent dogs, a television columnist jokes that while some dogs may be smart, his lhasa apso always breaks down in the middle of 'Rach 3.'
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