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When shady Financier Serge Rubinstein was strangled to death in his Manhattan town house five years ago, some estimates set the draft dodger's fortune as high as $10 million. Last week a state tax appraisal deflated the figure to a mere $1,497,483. The bulk of it went to two daughters by his divorced wife Laurette, with bequests of $10,000 each to Rubinstein's butler, two secretaries and a great and good friend, blonde sometime Singer Betty Reed...
...violinist once bitterly referred to the "grotto acoustics" of the lakeside pavilion), the festival directors nevertheless present excellent large-scale concerts by the Orchestre National de Paris and the Symphony of the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk. Among the participants: Conductors Eugen Jochum, Ernest Ansermet and Andre Cluytens, Virtuosos Nathan Milstein, Artur Rubinstein, Pierre Fournier, Zino Francescatti...
...Moscow apartment, where he does landscape paintings from memory, Richter listens by the hour to recordings of Rubinstein, Gieseking and Lipatti. During later tours-perhaps London or even the U.S. this fall-he is bound to show again that he belongs in that company...
...compared with the twelve-key reach of Van Cliburn and Rubinstein...
...memorize a two-page composition, Maurizio memorized ten pages in 15 minutes. Although he has won various piano prizes, Maurizio was not widely known when he set out for Warsaw. But his teacher. Carlo Vidusso of the Milan Conservatory, believed that he was ready. "Technically," said revered Artur Rubinstein, world's foremost interpreter of Chopin, "he already plays better than any of us on the jury...