Word: rubinstein
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...speak of each lesson as an inspiring experience. One lately complained: "He shows you what to do and, alas, not how to do it!" Sprightly Betty Short used to be a Hofmann pupil. Now she is Hofmann's wife, mother of his two sons, Anton, named for Rubinstein, and Edward, for the late Publisher...
...broke under the strain. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children intervened. The late Alfred Corning Clarke, wealthy Manhattan realtor, donated $50.000 so that the boy could go home to Poland, study in peace. Luck came on a visit to Berlin where young Hofmann played for Anton Rubinstein, became the master's only pupil...
...When Nijinsky, Karsavina, Rubinstein danced in the peerless Diaghilev Ballet, it was more often than not to works created by Michel Fokine. Today Fokine runs a dancing school in Manhattan. His dancers, who bolstered a faltering season last summer at the Lewisohn Stadium, were again sent to its rescue this month. They performed old Fokine favorites, introduced some new ballets. By this week, when they were to wind up the engagement, the Fokine dancers had impressed critics as no more than mediocre. There was, however, one exception-22-year-old Paul Haakon (pronounced hawk-on). In Scheherazade...
...emigration from Germany took place in 1871 when Son Walter was nine. His father was greatly respected as conductor of the Breslau Orchesterverein. As his friends and often as his guests the elder Damrosch had such great musicians as Liszt, Wagner, von Bulow, Joachim, Auer, Rubinstein. In Manhattan he quickly established himself as Wagner's most ardent champion. He founded the New York Oratorio Society, then the New York Symphony. In 1884 he gave the fashionable new Metropolitan its first taste of German opera. Death came before he could finish the season...
...conductor as New Yorkers had ever seen. But young Vladimir Horowitz, with all his stage fright, was a match for the lusty Briton. Horowitz played the Tchaikovsky Concerto with his hands racing all over the keyboard, tossing off trills and smashing out chords as if he were a Rubinstein. Horowitz was 24 then and an instant sensation. But sane critics were chary with their praise for playing that had more flash than meaning...