Word: rubinstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aviv, where his parents had settled. He won the first America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship to study in Europe, and at 13 became the youngest student in the history of Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia to win a master's degree. Hearing of the prodigy. Artur Rubinstein several times invited Barenboim to his home to play. Present on one occasion was U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok. who signed him up at 14 for his first U.S. tour. (This is his fourth...
...star-packed jury, which included Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Rosalyn Tureck, Grant Johannesen, Jacob Lateiner and Eugene List, had four finalists to choose from-three of them Americans, one Argentine. Winner Anievas, Manhattan-born but of Spanish and Mexican extraction, played the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, and he proved to be a pianist in the big, romantic tradition of a Rubinstein or Cliburn. Occasionally guilty of mere pounding, he nevertheless had prodigious technique and the kind of rhapsodic, deeply felt musical vision that suggests a major career...
...describe his Persephone was not too illuminating: "A nose," he said, "is not manufactured; a nose just is. Thus, too, my art." In the case of Persephone, the nose is neither ballet nor oratorio nor melodrama. A curiously hybrid work, it was first performed by the dancer Ida Rubinstein in 1934 and calls for a tenor, a chorus and full orchestra, and a leading lady who declaims a French text by André Gide while she dances. Persephone's score ranks with Stravinsky's most tautly constructed music-in his best neoclassic style-but as a stage piece...
...sideline trivia. Others try to be first with news of a great concert by talking about it before it happens, which is easy but not apt to be informative. We confess to a general prejudice in favor of talking about the event afterward-to review how well Artur Rubinstein actually played rather than to anticipate his reception from a desire to appear first...
...Rubinstein prides himself on being "a very normal person" ("I don't think anyone can beat me on that"), and when he sits down at the piano to ruminate on Chopin, say, or Schumann, he does so with the majestic air of a man who can look beneath the surface to the ultimate simplicities of great art. No other pianist achieves quite the same authority, nor does any other contemporary command Rubinstein's remarkable elegance of tone. Big or small, the sound is always rich and full-in contrast to that of the younger pianists who tend...