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...openings. Book publishers have their fall lists, art galleries and museums their big shows. For Music Editor Richard Murphy, it is a busied round of operatic debuts, music recitals by the up and coming, and major concerts by the established artists. One of the highlights of the season is Artur Rubinstein's remarkable ten-concert series in Manhattan, and reporting on it gives Murphy a rare opportunity to stand back and single out who are the great pianists of our time...
Brought there by subway and limousine, and bundled in worsted and furs, the public crowded into Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week to hear a 72-year-old man play the piano. Artur Rubinstein was starting a marathon ten-concert series in which, as a gesture of gratitude to the public he "loves like a woman," he plans to unpack the most cherished contents of his "musical valise." The series will do more than demonstrate the impeccable artistry of the world's most legendary virtuoso. Like the late great Josef Hofmann's remarkable series of concerts...
...such a void, it is still yawning. Show's first issue offers the less than startling news that lower production costs could cure Broadway's ills and that ABC-Television is run by men with the creative imagination of soap salesmen; it profiles such familiar figures as Artur Rubinstein and Orson Welles; and it reintroduces that familiar technique in newsgathering-the taped interview. Show says it seeks "a limited quality audience," and the preponderance of ads from Manhattan stores and restaurants indicates that the audience may be limited indeed...
...organize his own Freedom Ride. Brash, athletic Presbyterian Minister Bill Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, has never lacked for privileges of his own (his father was vice president of Manhattan's high-priced home furnishings store, W. & J. Sloane). He is married to the actress daughter of Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Coffin majored in government at Yale, served as a liaison officer with French and Russian troops during World War II, later worked as a Russian expert for the Central Intelligence Agency after studying divinity at Union Theological Seminary, where his uncle, Henry Sloane Coffin, was a longtime president. Coffin...
Mozart: Quartet in G Minor for Piano and Strings, K. 478 (Artur Schnabel, piano; the Pro Arte Quartet; Angel). This addition to Angel's fine "Great Recordings of the Century" is one of the best. Recorded in London in 1934, it has better quality than the date might suggest. The piano, generally, comes through more clearly than the strings, which is no tragedy, since Schnabel's performance is supple and airy...