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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Composer, pianist, conductor
1873–1943, born in Semenovo, Russia
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Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Sergei Rachmaninoff to the Upper West Side, Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at 505 West End Avenue
505 West End Avenue, Manhattan: A plaque on the building records that he lived here for the last seventeen years of his life.
Source: readtheplaque.com
Places
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Carnegie Hall
1891Opened in 1891. By the 1900s Sergei Rachmaninoff was among those staging or performing their own music here, the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini frequently recorded in the Main Hall, and Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis are among the many jazz performers who have played here, per Wikipedia.
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The Town Hall
1921Opened in 1921 as a lecture hall, it became one of the city’s top music venues. Sergei Rachmaninoff appeared in the 1931–32 season of its Endowment Series and Lily Pons in 1938, and a Louis Armstrong concert here in 1947 led to the formation of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, per Wikipedia.
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