Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind, the one overriding trait that makes Rubinstein percolate is rooted in his spirit. He is a hopelessly rosy-eyed, warm-blooded, bighearted, card-carrying romantic. On the Old World side, his pianistic pedigree dates back to some of the great masters and to the very origins of the instrument. Violinist Josef Joachim, Brahms's great friend, was Rubinstein's mentor. Rubinstein got his piano training from Karl Heinrich Earth, who was taught by the man (Franz Liszt), who was taught by the man (Karl Czerny), who was taught by the man?Ludwig van Beethoven...
...right governments and powers. Only a conference in which the National Liberation Front confronts the U.S. admits of any real hope. If this can be brought about, we may find the way out of what now appears an impasse, and the U.N. once again will have been the instrument that has saved the world from holocaust...
...years has ceded its once jealously held fiscal powers to the White House. Today, the President does not consider the budget just a report on spending or an accounting of his stewardship, as it once was, but a powerful tool for controlling the whole Government and a potent instrument for manipulating the economy. Lyndon Johnson, who delights in making use of every available lever of power, has used the budget to further his own ends more than any of his predecessors. This-and the fact that the figures are bigger than ever-makes the budget for fiscal 1967 as fascinating...
...mere arranger: the man who transcribed Bach's organ music for the pianoforte. In fact, says Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Busoni was "the greatest pianist of his time." Many musicians consider him a titanic technician and volcanically creative interpreter; all agree that his radical re-examination of the instrument and its literature struck a body blow at the romantic style and inspired the modern approach to the piano. Yet in the long view, Busoni was most significant where he most significantly failed: as a composer who longed to be great but was merely grand, as a pioneer who built...
...only other catch is that the new owner has to move the organ out of Mememorial Church himself. The instrument is for sale, "as is, where is." Any takers...