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...Aviv, where his parents had settled. He won the first America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship to study in Europe, and at 13 became the youngest student in the history of Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia to win a master's degree. Hearing of the prodigy. Artur Rubinstein several times invited Barenboim to his home to play. Present on one occasion was U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok. who signed him up at 14 for his first U.S. tour. (This is his fourth...
Schubert: Piano Sonata in D Major (Artur Schnabel, piano; Angel). Schnabel's Schubert was like nobody else's, and as this reissue of a 1939 recording recalls, no other reading is likely to seem right beside...
...star-packed jury, which included Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Rosalyn Tureck, Grant Johannesen, Jacob Lateiner and Eugene List, had four finalists to choose from-three of them Americans, one Argentine. Winner Anievas, Manhattan-born but of Spanish and Mexican extraction, played the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, and he proved to be a pianist in the big, romantic tradition of a Rubinstein or Cliburn. Occasionally guilty of mere pounding, he nevertheless had prodigious technique and the kind of rhapsodic, deeply felt musical vision that suggests a major career...
...Twist party, and some of the most distinguished names in the Social Register happily rushed to the Four Seasons restaurant to gyrate uninhibitedly for a clean cause. No charity ball can afford to be without a celebrity or two; the Polonaise Ball had Polish-born Pianist Artur Rubinsiein, who also serves as honorary chairman of the charity itself (for Polish World War II refugees now living in the U.S.), and other celebrators ranged from Elsa Maxwell to Douglas Fairbanks...
...sideline trivia. Others try to be first with news of a great concert by talking about it before it happens, which is easy but not apt to be informative. We confess to a general prejudice in favor of talking about the event afterward-to review how well Artur Rubinstein actually played rather than to anticipate his reception from a desire to appear first...