Word: rubinstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Book publishers have their fall lists, art galleries and museums their big shows. For Music Editor Richard Murphy, it is a busied round of operatic debuts, music recitals by the up and coming, and major concerts by the established artists. One of the highlights of the season is Artur Rubinstein's remarkable ten-concert series in Manhattan, and reporting on it gives Murphy a rare opportunity to stand back and single out who are the great pianists of our time...
Brought there by subway and limousine, and bundled in worsted and furs, the public crowded into Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week to hear a 72-year-old man play the piano. Artur Rubinstein was starting a marathon ten-concert series in which, as a gesture of gratitude to the public he "loves like a woman," he plans to unpack the most cherished contents of his "musical valise." The series will do more than demonstrate the impeccable artistry of the world's most legendary virtuoso. Like the late great Josef Hofmann's remarkable series of concerts...
...four men are as different in their relationship to the public as they are in their approach to the piano. While Rubinstein strides the stage with old-fashioned exuberance and verve, Serkin is more nearly the scholar, Horowitz the prophet, and Richter the mystic. At 16, Rubinstein's vision of the good life was "to sit next to a lovely woman in a concert hall and hold her hand and listen to Tchaikovsky"; with a gusto born of love, he has been clutching the hand of the public ever since. And although he has long since banished Tchaikovsky from...
...Rubinstein, whom his friend Thomas Mann called "that civilized man," is a product of the same Europe that Mann knew, a Europe that also nurtured such pianists as Benno Moiseiwitsch and Wilhelm Backhaus. Indeed, Rubinstein could have stepped out of a Mann novel. His enthusiasm for food, wines, cigars, paintings and fine editions is legendary, and his cultural interests extend far beyond his music. He reads omnivorously in eight languages, hobnobs more with writers than he does with musicians, occasionally regrets that he did not follow a youthful urge to become a novelist. His piano playing seems the consequence...
...theory that a group provides the stimulation and fruitful competition lacking in more solitary endeavors. "Music is a social art," says Pace. "I hate to see a child practice in isolation all year long, preparing finally for a recital in which he is apt to play badly. If Rubinstein hits a bunch of clinkers in Carnegie Hall, he doesn't disintegrate; he keeps on going...