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...Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Jascha Heifetz; RCA Victor) is a five-LP package that includes all ten of Beethoven's sonatas, masterfully played by Violinist Heifetz and Pianists Emanuel Bay and Brooks Smith. What with a fat book of program notes, it is big enough to be a doorstop; what with Heifetz playing as he does, it is almost a way of life...
There are the numberless artists who lived to express their visions, or merely to earn applause, or both: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Raphael and Mozart, who aimed to please; El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Beethoven, Proust and Yeats, who mostly aimed to please themselves. And there are those who found in art a refuge from reality, either through true talent, like the runaway Gauguin, or through some talent mixed with posing, like Byron, Hemingway and Dali, or no talent at all, like the hundreds of pseudo artists who succeed on borrowed ideas and hand-me-down rebellion. There are the great artistic eccentrics...
...attended had foreseen, there was more in the air than just music. For the 1,000 Germans who crossed the border of Ru binstein's conscience, the recital was a stirring but pleasant penance-a chance to listen to a great Jewish pianist play Beethoven. For Rubinstein, it was a delicate compromise, a gesture of understanding, a test of the heart...
...Nijmegeners got in, on tickets made available at the last moment), the recital was a tremendous success with the visitors. The critics agreed that Rubinstein's playing was almost metaphysical. "The sad thing for us," mused the Frankfurter Allgemeine, "is that German musical culture of the time of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Liszt, which we have every reason to mourn for, is so immediately present in hardly any artist of the world but Artur Rubinstein...
...Bravo! C'est magnifique!" cheered Conductor Pierre Monteux, 88, but it was not for a flawless interpretation of Beethoven's Ninth. In Britain to conduct the London Symphony, the former leader of the San Francisco Symphony took time out to realize a boyhood dream-donning a dandy fireman's hat and watching a ding-dong drill put on by the London Fire Brigade. The maestro loves to boast: "In my home town, Hancock, Maine, I built them a depot and bought an engine, and the population is only 400, so I guess I'm chief...