Russia wants Rachmaninoff back

“Nobody needs Rachmaninoff in America,” says the Russian minister of culture, Vladimir Medinsky, who is calling for the disinterment of the remains of Sergei Rachmaninoff from a cemetery in Westchester County, NY, and reburial of the composer-pianist at a memorial under construction at the former estate of his family in Russia, Norman Lebrecht reports on his Slipped Disc blog:

http://slippedisc.com/2015/08/russian-minister-demands-the-return-of-rachmaninovs-ashes/

Rachmaninoff fled Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. In the West, he maintained homes in the United States and Switzerland. He became a US citizen shortly before his death in 1943.