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Manhattan's seventh annual Polonaise Ball was a little bit of Old Warsaw on Old Park Avenue. The Old Warsaw Orchestra played the Krakowiak, and nearly everybody was there: Mrs. Artur Rubinstein, Mrs. Artur Rodzinski, Vera Zorina
Another defendant. Artur Harder, a clerk in the Krupp truck factory in Frankfurt, was accused of having helped Heuser tie victims to a stake, "pour fuel on and light the living sacrifices." Harder said that he was kept so busy cremating bodies in a special incinerator he had devised that he had been able to take off only two days for his honeymoon. Following Harder's testimony, the judges cleared the court of school-age children, apparently on the theory that they were getting too vivid a picture of Nazi horror...
Anxious to rid itself of "middleaged spread," the BBC hired Clock in the spring of 1959. His credentials were varied. London-born, Clock studied piano with Artur Schnabel in Berlin in the early '303, returned to London to write music criticism, and founded a summer school (which he still runs) for composers and performers at Dartington, in Devon. Working on the theory that he could include two new works in a four-work program without losing his audience, Clock started his new job by sprucing up not only the Prom concerts but also the repertories of the three...
BROWN UNIVERSITY Artur Rubinstein, pianist Mus.D...
Michel Block, a diminutive, red-haired pianist who looks like a teen-age Artur Rubinstein, clearly was the choice of a Carnegie Hall audience two years ago, when he competed for the most coveted instrumental prize in the U.S., the Leventritt Award. His performance of Brahms's Concerto No. 2, a work laced with tranquil melodies and fiery passages, brought the audience to its feet for five minutes of applause. But the judges did not give the award to Block or anyone else. Leonard Bernstein, speaking for the judges, pointed out that contestants for the Leventritt do not compete...