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...typical playful fashion, began the 80th year of the world's greatest pianist. The birthday was only a few weeks ago, and the days that followed were typical, too, of Rubinstein. There was a concert to be played in Boston, so he packed his suitcases, not forgetting a shoe bag crammed with the good-luck charms that his four children have given him over the years?baby shoes, a turquoise marble, a set of jacks, a pipe-cleaner doll, an acorn, a crumbled plaster angel. He put on his fur-lined blue suede shoes and his long navy blue overcoat...
...said: "This is still a period of disintegration in all the arts. There's no particular advantage to chaos, but that's where we are." Added Chicago Architect Harry Weese: "Mies continues to be our conscience, but who listens to his conscience these days?" With his 80th birthday approaching and an exhibition of his drawings on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the world's greatest living architect, took time last week to affirm that he, for one, still heeded his conscience, that...
...Pound was released from a Washington mental institution, where he was confined for twelve years after being indicted for treason because of his pro-Fascist World War II broadcasts from Italy. Now living in Venice, the Faustian-bearded poet was spending a few days in Paris to celebrate his 80th birthday, and one of the carefully guarded things he did say was that he wants to return to the U.S. to visit his birthplace in Hailey, Idaho, some time soon...
...necessary to invent him," goes one of Voltaire's best-known epigrams. Less well-known is his balancing phrase, "but all nature cries out to us that he does exist." Nothing summed up Voltaire's puckish, often contradictory private honesty more than an incident in his 80th year. Overwhelmed by the beauty of a hilltop sunset, he knelt and cried, "O Mighty God, I believe!" However, as he got to his feet he had second thoughts: "As to Monsieur the Son and Madame his mother, that is another matter...
...Romantic" symphony is majestic but brisk, brassy and free of the tedious, otherworldly vapors that sometimes surround the innocent mystic's lengthy work. This is one of six recordings with London's Philharmonia Orchestra (including symphonies by Stravinsky, Dvorak and Mozart) that celebrate Klemperer's 80th birthday...