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...drug fiend, I'm not a drunkard, but I am the laziest man I ever met," joked Artur Rubinstein just a few days before he gave a marathon concert that included two piano concertos. On his 88th birthday, the last of the great romantics on or off the keyboard celebrated with his children and grandchildren and also gave an elfish performance for some 40 friends gathered to toast him in Manhattan. RCA presented him with a chocolate piano with 88 keys. Purring at the adulation, and twinkling much the way he must have in Paris when he was interrupted...
...Sonata No. 31, Op. 110; Sonata No. 32, Op. 111 (Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy; London, $6.98). There is no halfway point in attitudes toward late Beethoven. For performers and listeners alike, it is either the ultimate in communicative art or too personal and troubled to share with a large audience. Rubinstein and Horowitz subscribe to the latter view and avoid both the music and the problem. Even a comparative youngster like Cliburn has kept his interpretive thoughts on the matter largely to himself. Fortunately there is Ashkenazy, the finest all-round pianist in music today, a man who is possessed...
...also a wonderful storyteller-quite a worthy and necessary talent for the subject of a documentary-and she has tales to tell that match her effortless animation: of studying intermittently but intensely with Albert Schweitzer, her spiritual mentor, in Africa during the 1950s; of Artur Rubinstein and Bruno Walter, who were patrons when she was searching for an orchestra to lead; of a fight with Tenor John Charles Thomas, who refused to perform in concert with a woman as a conductor. In the 1930s Antonia organized an all-woman orchestra in New York. Later she brought men into it, because...
...dine but to gather crumbs of gossip, morsels of color-occasionally some meaty news-about any celebrity he could buttonhole in his non stop table-hopping. Was Joe DiMaggio flying to New York "for some dates at El Morocco"? Lyons heard it there and so reported. What did Artur Rubinstein's wife cook for dinner the night before? The pianist gave Lyons the answer (Polish chicken) at the Côte Basque. Was it true that Jacqueline Susann met that other author, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., at Sardi's? Lyons was there as a witness...
...Legend. His full name was Solomon Isaievich Hurok. To his friends he was Sol. To the public, though, it was "S. Hurok Presents," an emblem that invariably appeared atop the newspaper ad, billboard poster or concert program. Beneath it ran names like Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Margot Fonteyn, the Royal Ballet, the Old Vic and, of course, the Russians he so ably promoted and profited by in the U.S.: Pavlova, Richter, Oistrakh, the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera...