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...accustomed to having you with me that you are like part of the family," said Artur Rubinstein. "After the story is finished, I won't know what to do without...
...people who were working on this week's cover story could return the compliment with sincerity. For Artist Boris Chaliapin, the assignment brought warm memories of family: his father, the great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin, was a close friend of Rubinstein's in Europe many years ago. Between them, for reasons only they really know, painter and pianist decided on the rather unusual garb of red coat and vest for the portrait. And why is the piano green? "You don't have to see it green," said Chaliapin. "It is black; perhaps it was an artistic liberty...
Reporter Christopher Porterfield was the member of the team to whom Rubinstein got most accustomed. In just over three weeks, Porterfield went along to New York, Boston, Toronto, Washington, Durham (N.C.), Columbia (S.C.) and Cincinnati, questioning and listening in airplanes, taxis, concert halls and at cocktail parties. In Columbia, where Rubinstein played a sonata that he had played two nights earlier in Durham, he seemed to be testing Porterfield. Striding backstage immediately after finishing the sonata, Rubinstein asked: "Did you notice any difference between this time and the night before last?" "Yes," said Porterfield, "this time was better." Rubinstein turned...
...birth-now being celebrated through the efforts of the vigorous new Busoni Society-Italy's Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni is remembered by the music public as a mere arranger: the man who transcribed Bach's organ music for the pianoforte. In fact, says Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Busoni was "the greatest pianist of his time." Many musicians consider him a titanic technician and volcanically creative interpreter; all agree that his radical re-examination of the instrument and its literature struck a body blow at the romantic style and inspired the modern approach to the piano...
...laughed loud and long when I read about unruly audiences [Jan. 21]. But there is one sound left unmentioned-that of a nursing baby. I listened to that through a Rubinstein concert. First the baby chewed on a rubber pacifier-that has a kind of squeak. Then there was a new sound and so help me, the mother was nursing her baby. Rubinstein looked right over the keyboard at us, and played sublimely on-possibly because he had become a father not too many years before...