Happy Birthday Sergei

[adorshki]

Rachmaninoff, that is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff
First heard it was his birthday on the local jazz station last year, thought it was appropriate one of my heroes (see my sig) was born on April 1st.
Why Rachmaninoff you may ask?
This:

You ELP/King Crimson/Rick Wakeman/Jon Lord (early Deep Purple) fans may recognize the influence....

 

[walrus]

Nice! The effects of which keys he's hitting coming down, the smoke, etc. is very cool, too!

walrus

 

[dbirchett]

My mother heard him in recital when she was in college in the late 30s. She said that he was playing and a train came rumbling by. He lifted his hands and held them poised above the keys until the train passed. He then picked up exactly where he was.