''Isle Of The Dead''
It was one of those misty, windy, moonlit November night in the sea side small French town!We were invited to a piano recital by our 9 year old son Mattis-Joti's piano teacher's husband, the Armenian old is gold Gabrell at the Music Conservatory Mattis attends!
Gabrell was playing Rachmaninoff!Though Gabrell didn't play 'Isle Of The Dead', on the way back walking, my head was still filled with it!It must had to do with Gabrells playing intensely well one after another joyful Rachmaninoff coupled with the effect of last few months one after another outrageous news coming out of my home country Bangladesh: the burning of Buddhist temple; the burning of slums and more than 100 garments workers burnt to death in Dhaka!I was thinking what made Rachmaninoff to compose his 'Isle Of The Dead' symphonic poem!Did he at all go through the pain as the painter of the same title went through?
It was one of those misty, windy, moonlit November night in the sea side small French town!We were invited to a piano recital by our 9 year old son Mattis-Joti's piano teacher's husband, the Armenian old is gold Gabrell at the Music Conservatory Mattis attends!
Gabrell was playing Rachmaninoff!Though Gabrell didn't play 'Isle Of The Dead', on the way back walking, my head was still filled with it!It must had to do with Gabrells playing intensely well one after another joyful Rachmaninoff coupled with the effect of last few months one after another outrageous news coming out of my home country Bangladesh: the burning of Buddhist temple; the burning of slums and more than 100 garments workers burnt to death in Dhaka!I was thinking what made Rachmaninoff to compose his 'Isle Of The Dead' symphonic poem!Did he at all go through the pain as the painter of the same title went through?
