Concerto—Suggestible
NY successful doctor can show you an amazing collection of varied gifts from grateful patients, but I doubt whether any of them could display so spectacular a trophy as Dr. Dahl, to whom Rachmaninoff dedicated his second piano concerto, heard the other night from 1YX. Rachmaninoff’s first symphony and his first concerto were not a popular success, and for some years he tied himself in miserable and unproductive knots with his fears arid self-dis-trust. In the end Dr. Dahl straightened him out by the process of repetitive suggestion — "You will begin to work again. You will compose a concerto. You will compose with great facility. The concerto will be of good quality" da capo. Basking in the rich, uninhibited flow of the C minor concerto which resulted from this treatment, I was. tempted to make an appointment with a psychiatrist and hope for similar fertility; recollecting, however, the first piano concerto, heard the other day from 1YA, I decided that a morbid sub-con-scious and a helpful doctor would not alone be enough, and that a certain inborn flair for composition was probably also essential.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 11
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185Concerto—Suggestible New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 11
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