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...memoirs (My Young Years; Knopf; $10), Rubinstein recalls the moment with gusto and some dismay...
...world today knows Rubinstein as an ageless wonder, the warmest of musicians, who at the age of 86 can still bring an audience to tears with his blend of drama and poetry. But in the early years of the century he was a Casanova in tails. His seemingly endless list of courtships had begun in his native Poland with a twelve-year-old girl, appropriately named Mania (he was ten at the time). Then came a staggering array of flirtations and affairs...
There was Olive, a well-to-do American and ex-chorus girl; in Warsaw, there was the Harman family-he romanced the two daughters, titillated the mother, excited the son, who was afflicted, as Rubinstein quaintly puts it, "by a chronic physical deficiency which resulted in his inability to make love to a woman." In Paris, a countess eased up to the piano as he was playing Chopin and kissed him square on the lips "with a wild passion," while her husband dozed on the sofa...
Morgan offended the pianist-not just because "one of the richest men in the world" came late to a dinner-recital party but because he did not pay a cent to hear Rubinstein play. Arthur was then penniless. What Rubinstein remembers today is the financier's nose...
...look at life with the same eyes," says Rubinstein...