Rachmaninoff - the 20th century's great romantic
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The Influence of RAC-Mannenof on Hollywood
RAC-Mannenof is hugely influential on Hollywood, wasn't he? He's writing music that we now think of as film music. The lushness of it, and this idea of a very, very strong melody being allied to interesting, and in his case, very lush harmonies. So I think now is the time for him, because basically we're kind of saying goodbye to musical modernism,. And so ugly sounding music is necessarily kind of worthy.
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