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...every U. S. art battle for a quarter of a century. His first wife, Marie Sterner, long a Manhattan art dealer, was among the first to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. His son, Architect Harold Sterner is a World War veteran and designer of the Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor...
...restaurant, the clatter of the Second Avenue El, the confusion and bustle of the ghetto. At 10, the aggressive, wild-haired little boy was the best rollerskater in the block. Even then he would spend his pennies in a Grand Street arcade listening to a mechanical piano hammer out Rubinstein's Melody in F. He was not much older when Mother Gershwin bought a worn old upright, chiefly to keep up with a relative who owned one. Brother Ira was her first choice to play it. George showed more musical zeal, soon became the family pianist. In those days...
...Entrance of the BoyardsHalvorsen *Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini *Waltzes, "Where the Citrons Bloom" Strauss *"The Animals' Carnival," Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Pianos: J. M. Sanroma - Leo Litwin *Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes *Kammenei Ostrov Rubinstein *Invitation to the Dance Weber-Berliez *"The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Symphonic Paraphrase by L. Cailliet) *Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...culmination- almost the last stand-of the Romantic Movement in music," was a Petersburg law student of 22 when he first became seriously interested in music. Once he caught fire he blazed up. But he had no money, had to support himself by teaching a heavy schedule at Rubinstein's Moscow Conservatory. At 37 he had become a composer but he was still just a music-teacher. When Rubinstein went to 45-year-old Nadejda von Meek, music-loving widow of a railroad tycoon and Moscow's richest woman, to get her to do something for Tchaikovsky...
...they were in frequent and increasingly intimate correspondence. Nadejda had 12 children and was very much the head of her family. She had a whim of iron, and it was her strongest whim never to appear in public, never to be at home to anyone but her own kin (Rubinstein was apparently the lone exception). As her epistolary friendship with Tchaikovsky grew, her commissions got more munificent, her language ever more affectionate, until finally she was supporting Tchaikovsky and their letters to each other were more platonic than respectable...