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Thanks to Arthur Rubinstein's recording of the sound tract, the thirty-eight versions of the Concerto and of some Chopin and Wagner all sound at their brilliant best. But forty-seven hearings of a work, part of which was identified by latter-day musicians in the audience as "Full Moon and Empty Arms," is too much for even the most insistent Raclunauaninof fan. Or maybe it was fifty...
Victor Records, remembering how Chopin sales boomed after A Song to Remember came out, released four Concerto versions at once, ranging from a "definitive" one by Artur Rubinstein and the NBC Symphony to a syrupy foxtrot by Freddy Martin, who also has Tchaikovsky's blood on his hands...
This long, dull, maddeningly unmotivated story wastes the hard-working actors, famed Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Farewell to Arms), the Technicolor, the dressy sets. Only item worth the expense: the brilliant piano playing on the sound track by Artur Rubinstein, who was paid $85,000-a whopping price, even in Hollywood, for a musical background...
...publicity handouts often bear the names of Comedian Zero Mostel, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Dancer Sono Osato, Boogie-Woogie Artist Hazel Scott, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Composer Earl Robinson, Conductor Rudolph Ganz, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Novelist Thomas Mann. And ICCASP's stable of talent also embraces college professors, atomic scientists, advertising writers, book critics, and coveys of ballet dancers-classic or modern...
...Distinction ad. He likes to wear maroon ties with matching handkerchief jutting out of his coat pocket. Along with Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...