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Died. Helena Rubinstein, 94, queen of cosmetics; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see U.S. BUSINESS...
Even after half a century in the U.S., Helena Rubinstein could clearly recall her first impression upon landing in New York in 1914. "It was a cold day," she would say in speech still heavily accented from her Polish girlhood. "All the American women had purple noses and grey lips, and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the U.S. could be my life's work...
...FRENCH PROGRAM (RCA Victor). French piano music has a tendency to sound delicate and slightly frostbitten. Artur Rubinstein breathes warmth and life into it, without ever losing his exquisite urbanity. His tribute to France, his home for much of his life, includes two Intermezzi by his late friend Francis Poulenc and La Vallee des Cloches by Ravel...
BEETHOVEN: CONCERTO NO. 5 (RCA Victor). The exuberant Artur Rubinstein and the Boston Symphony's meticulous Erich Leinsdorf bow in each other's musical direction in a performance of the lordly "Emperor" Concerto that is both polished and grand...
INSTRUMENTAL: Pieces often played by students reveal unsuspected subtleties as Glenn Gould makes eloquent the several voices in Bach's Two-and Three-Part Inventions (Columbia) and Artur Rubinstein turns Chopin's Waltzes into lilting, sparkling poems (RCA Victor). Sviatoslav Richter makes Schubert's "Wanderer" Fantasia sing (Angel), and John Browning premieres what may become one of tomorrow's classics, though not too different from yesterday's: Samuel Barber's 1962 Piano Concerto (Columbia...