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Beethoven: Sonata No. 21 in C (Waldstein), Eroica Variations (Pianist Emanuel Ax, RCA). Since winning the Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel in 1974, Emanuel Ax has devoted himself on records primarily to Chopin, and expertly so. Here he turns to Beethoven with a dream technique that more than meets the virtuoso demands of both works. But unlike many a prizewinner, he has much more than dexterity going for him. Ax controls the music completely, not it him. Such ease, logic and warmth suggest that he is a Beethoven pianist to keep...
...regarded as a sound businessman. His abilities as a starmaker in the Hurok tradition are less well known. Despite the recent depletion of its talent roster, Hurok Concerts still handles a respectable array of artists, including Van Cliburn, Sviatoslav Richter, Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda and Artur Rubinstein. One of the joys of the new Shaw-Hurok liaison, said Shaw last week, is that now Guitarist Bream and Mezzo Baker can give joint recitals in the U.S., as they have in England. One of the things wrong with the business-most music managers being as single-minded...
...perhaps the incalculable enrichment of America by those refugees?by Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Artur Schnabel and Paul Tillich?that started the process of change. By special legislation in 1948, the U.S. began admitting more than 400,000 "displaced persons." Then came 32,000 refugees from the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and some 650,000 from Fidel Castro's seizure of Cuba in 1959. But only under President John F. Kennedy, great-grandson of an immigrant farmer from Ireland's County Wexford, did overall reform begin. According to the Immigration Act of 1965, which finally took effect...
...Artur roars louder...
...Artur's face is now on the table, his shoulders shaking with glee...