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BROWN UNIVERSITY Artur Rubinstein, pianist Mus.D...
...Manhattan, Macy's set up a special wig department, which was jammed with more than 1,000 women a day clamoring for synthetic (all-Dynel) wigs, at $49.50. Helena Rubinstein christened a posh new room the Wig-Wig. Max Miller, president of the Joseph Fleischer custom wig company, opened ten new consulting rooms to handle the flood of buyers. Max Factor in Hollywood had to set up folding chairs in the halls to handle capacity crowds. The Elizabeth Arden Salon in Chicago extended its usual three-week wait on wig orders to two months...
Michel Block, a diminutive, red-haired pianist who looks like a teen-age Artur Rubinstein, clearly was the choice of a Carnegie Hall audience two years ago, when he competed for the most coveted instrumental prize in the U.S., the Leventritt Award. His performance of Brahms's Concerto No. 2, a work laced with tranquil melodies and fiery passages, brought the audience to its feet for five minutes of applause. But the judges did not give the award to Block or anyone else. Leonard Bernstein, speaking for the judges, pointed out that contestants for the Leventritt do not compete...
...Aviv, where his parents had settled. He won the first America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship to study in Europe, and at 13 became the youngest student in the history of Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia to win a master's degree. Hearing of the prodigy. Artur Rubinstein several times invited Barenboim to his home to play. Present on one occasion was U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok. who signed him up at 14 for his first U.S. tour. (This is his fourth...
...star-packed jury, which included Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Rosalyn Tureck, Grant Johannesen, Jacob Lateiner and Eugene List, had four finalists to choose from-three of them Americans, one Argentine. Winner Anievas, Manhattan-born but of Spanish and Mexican extraction, played the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, and he proved to be a pianist in the big, romantic tradition of a Rubinstein or Cliburn. Occasionally guilty of mere pounding, he nevertheless had prodigious technique and the kind of rhapsodic, deeply felt musical vision that suggests a major career...