From today's New York Times:

 

 


Tale of Rachmaninoff and Medical Education


Sergei Rachmaninoff's long and meaty fingers, capable of playing
intervals of a 12th, plied these keys, they say...  But the instrument
is not in the home of a wealthy piano aficionado or in Steinway's
basement or in a famous concert hall. It is perched above the Hudson
River near the George Washington Bridge, hidden away in a dormitory of
Columbia University's
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/col
umbia_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org>  medical school, the College
of Physicians and Surgeons....

 

"We can find no proof that Rachmaninoff donated it, or that it was
donated by somebody and it was Rachmaninoff's piano," said Stephen E.
Novak, the head of archives for the university's health sciences
library.

 

Barbara J. Niss

Mount Sinai Archives

Levy Library, Box 1102

1 Gustave L. Levy Place

New York, NY 10029-6574

(212) 241-7239

(212) 831-2625 (fax)

 


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