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The old man sat at a table in an RCA Victor recording studio in Manhattan and listened to a playback. The cello came on with a rhapsodic, throbbing solo. "Very beautiful," sighed the old man, and tapped Cellist David Soyer approvingly on the knee. Then, a gnarled passage for piano...
Violist Michael Tree offered a suggestion. "Maybe," he told the old man, "you could come in a little slower, maybe more quietly." Violinist John Dalley agreed with a nod. "Fine," said the old man, "let's try it." And Artur Rubinstein, a month short of his 81st birthday, led...
Last week Rubinstein began what has become his annual New York endurance contest, this time in the form of nine Carnegie Hall recitals in seven weeks. Those few pianists half his age with the stamina for such a task would likely spend months in agonizing preparation for the ordeal; Rubinstein...
No Generation Gap. It filled him, too, with wisdom about youth and old age. "When I was young, I would play Brahms like this"-and the wrinkled hands moved across the keyboard in a caricature of overexpressive stop-and-go phrasing. "The lesson we learn as we get old is...
Youth and age were in close contact as Rubinstein and the members of the superb quartet worked through the spacious, gypsy-tinged passion of Brahms, accepting, rejecting, arguing and agreeing as four equal colleagues. Rubinstein "discovered" the Guarneri last year, when he heard tapes of the quartet's first...