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[edit] Sergei Rachmaninoff and Charles O'Connell

Wish you could have said said something abot this on the discussion pages instead of the edit history. Oh well. I did attempt to clarify the Rach-O'Connell relationship and cited accordingly, per at least some of the information below.

To answer at least some of your questions, Robert Matthew-Walker discussed the working relationship of Rachmaninoff and O'Connell in the August 2000 issie of Internatinoal Piano Quarterly. O'Connell joined RCA in 1931, at the height of the Depression. Their relationship was not a positive one. M-W does not say why Rachmaninoff stayed with RCA. Some guesses have been the combined demands of family, touring, construction of the Villa Senar and at least intermittent composition took recording lower on the priority list, or at least left him less occupied with recording, at least in the early 1930's. This left between 1934, when Rachmaninoff started recording again, and 1937, when he booked the EMI sessions, to postentially get fed up with the matter.

I had hoped to second this material officially in the Martyn biography of Rachmaninoff. Since this is a holiday weekend in the United States, however, the library which has this text is closed until next Tuesday, and I may not be able to get there until next weekend myself. In the meantime, I did some clean-up and footnoting; hopefully that is enough for the time being.

Jonyungk (talk) 02:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

You've got mail! Hope all is well with you. Antandrus (talk) 17:06, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

LOL. I see you've also discovered a new wonderful form of entertainment!! Love that one (contributor).  :) Antandrus (talk) 16:56, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! I enjoyed your "noticeboard". My favourite is the pithy "Administrators' noticeboard". Best wishes : it's good to have you around. --RobertG ♬ talk 17:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Piano infobox

Hi, I noticed that you opposed the original infobox on the Piano article, and since then someone else has added a different infobox. I don't know what you feel about this one, but I think it's unattractive and oppose its addition for the same reasons you had. Should there be a discussion on the article's Talk about whether it's appropriate or not? I'd rather just remove it. ALTON .ıl 02:52, 3 June 2008 (UTC)