“True singing is a different breath, about nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind.” Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sonnet I.III,” in Duino Elegies: The Sonnets To Orpheus, trans. Stephen Mitchell (Vintage, 2009)
Elizabeth Peyton (American, b. 1965), Earl of Essex, 1995.
Oil on Masonite, 30.5 x 22.9 cm.
Rachmaninov and conductor Eugene Ormandy during a rehearsal
at the Academy of Music in 1938, courtesy of the Listeners’ Club