Word: rubinsteiners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four months from now he expects to be in Buenos Aires, next month he expects to visit Albuquerque, next week he goes to Indianapolis, this week he was giving a concert in Carnegie Hall and celebrating his 57th birthday in Manhattan. Despite wartime transportation, Polish-born Artur Rubinstein, who in 40 years has traveled well over 1,000,000 miles, still trots the globe almost as fast and far as ever...
...eternal itinerary Artur Rubinstein brings music of rich feeling combined with as much all-round mastery of the piano as any man can show. And it brings him a steady income of over $100,000 a year. He is also one of the recording industry's biggest sellers, whose discs annually gross over $500,000. His Tchaikovsky Concerto (Victor) started a national furor a year ago when Bandleader Freddie Martin heard it and made a popular arrangement that was worn ragged in juke boxes from coast to coast. Rubinstein's proper version, riding the crest with Martin...
...Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 8 sides). One of the most ingratiating of all chamber-music compositions, Schubert's Trio, in a previous recording by Cortot, Thibaud and Casals, was once a sensational bestseller, today is out of print. Victor's new version, with the latest, most scrupulous sound engineering, is one of the finest chamber-music recordings ever made. Rubinstein, Heifetz and Feuermann (each a famed concert soloist) play its lilting melodies with virtuoso finish and a subtle teamwork seldom heard when prima donnas of this caliber get together...
...highly colored masterly rendering of Vermont in autumn. But ingeniously concealed in the background is the head of Goliath. A tree contains the figure of David. Other outstanding items in the show: a brilliant portrait of Poet Charles Henri Ford with its exquisite hands; an original gouache of Helena Rubinstein, her face covered in sequins and lighted from the front by a splash of phosphorus; a colossal Phenomena, a hodgepodge of bodies with the focus on feet and midsections, which stunned New York and London...
Brahms: Six Intermezzi and Two Rhapsodies (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor; 8 sides). Gruff, warmhearted Brahms is revealed in these rugged romantic works of small-scale architecture, played with fire, poetry, complete authority...