Word: pleasersâ
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Back to Mozart. As a stripling, Rubinstein often lived at the mercy of impresarios who wanted him to perform only the crowd pleasers???Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff. "They never listened to me," he growls, "just to the box office." Now, like an aging Romeo, he has "come back to Mozart on my knees." That alone is quite an achievement. "You remember what Schnabel said about Mozart sonatas?" recalls Rubinstein. " 'Too easy for children, too difficult for artists.' " So it is: Mozart demands a fidelity to rhythm that few performers can ever master. It is characteristic of Rubinstein's magic that even...
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