When he became an American citizen in 1943, Sergei Rachmaninoff said:
“This is the only place on earth where a human being is respected for what he is and what he does, and it does not matter who he is and where he came from.”
Related:
“How Rachmaninoff’s composing was hurt by the Soviet Union.”
Artists on how artists become great: Michelangelo and Beethoven. Stavinsky and Tchaikowsky. Liszt. Rodin.