Funnily enough, in 1907 Scriabin was living in New York for a short tour, at the "Madison Avenue Hotel" at Madison Ave and 92nd St, at least according to a letter he wrote Alfred La Liberte in Quebec.
Scriabin had an American tour !!!??? Wow ! How could Chopin and Scriabin (Tchaikovsky didn't care for or like too much the later quartets ! Incredible .I don't want to believe thinking men could not see whether the music is rude , a strain or just too reaching doesnt matter .How can you get Wagner but not Bethoven ? not get Beethoven in his bagatelles or Diabelli , Eroica variations or the middle through late sonatas ! To not deify any of he 9 symphonies or quartets is not even understandable to anyone who can read a page of music ! I know Tchaikovsky did never knew Sciabin of all people would come to our musically backward shores. I wonder if he met anyone interesting in our country . Ives or who? This was way before Cowell and certainly well before Varese came to our country .
When Scriabin was alive the Russians were still using the Julian Calandar. Both Western and orthodox Easter Sunday fell on 4 April in 1915 in the Gregorian calendar - 22 March in the Julian. Scriabin died on 27 April 1915 (14 April in the Julian calendar). If my facts are right then I don't think he died on Easter sunday but around three weeks afterwards. His birth on christmas day was on the old Julian calender and was christmas day 1871, not 1872 as is stated here. This corresponds to 6 January 1872 in the Gregorian calendar. Hope I'm not being too pedantic but good to clarify these things I think.
Fuck you on Christmas and Easter and a couple of times after or before. You stupid clock watcher. You obviously missed the joke. What are you... a Virgo?
Oh my darling, the performance was inspired, but the recording was shit. Whoa, to be so close and to fall so far. Alex would have died if he wasn't already dead. This performance was like serving a beautiful dessert on a dirty plate. Whooo, sorry. Blessing Garrick. Love your performance in Baton Rouge a few years ago. Blessings. CVD
