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Aug 05, 2022
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When states go over the edge politically, people who can afford to leave generally do. That’s precisely what happened in Russia in 1917. Rachmaninov, the guardian of Russian romanticism; and Stravinsky and Prokofiev, heralds of the new modern Russian style; all left for the U.S. or Western Europe. Only Prokofiev would return, but not for 20 years.

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