[Dixielandjazz] Wellstood-Rachmaninoff nexus?

[Dick Baker]

Dan Spink wrote, "I read a story  once of a well known ragtime performer 
playing Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor in ragtime, in the presence of 
the great composer himself, who later came up and commented; "Nice melody 
but you got the rhythm all wrong."

Rick Kittle responded, "I believe that player of Rachmaninoff was Dick 
Wellstood."

Wellstood was pretty precocious, but Rachmaninoff died in 1943, making this 
unlikely.

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   Dick Baker - Falls Church, Virginia, USA
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