Word: rubinsteiners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brahms: Trio No. 1 , in B Major (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Emanuel Feuermann, cello; Victor; 8 sides). Three great artists, tops in their fields, submerged their prima donna instincts late last summer in Victor's Hollywood studios to breathe rich new life into an old trio...
...concert, a friendly stagehand advised the great Anton Rubinstein not to go on without blacking his face for the "show...
...globetrotter, in one 13-month period Rubinstein gave 72 concerts in Europe, 60 in South America, took his wife and two children to Paris, went to Australia for 24 dates, to London, to the U.S. He has not played in Germany since 1914. His present home (his 32nd) is in Los Angeles...
...Artur Rubinstein looks mild but he at tacks the piano with the gusto of a man who says: "I prefer to die younger than to sniff around living." In London in 1937 he recorded the 56 Chopin mazurkas at one continuous sitting. A prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was for years a lady-killing bachelor ("I am 99% interested in women"). Rubinstein's bachelorhood ended nine years ago when he married Nela Mlynarski, a Lithuanian. Before she was born her father had conducted at a War saw concert whose soloist was 15-year-old Artur Rubinstein...
...Artur Rubinstein is no kin to Russia's late Pianist Anton Rubinstein, one of the greatest of all time. Irritated at being continually asked whether they were related, he once bought a cap labeled "No." To Artur Rubinstein are dedicated the two toughest keyboard workouts of all time: 1) Stravinsky's "Sonata" from his ballet score Petrouchka; 2) Rudepoema, a ferocious tonal portrait of Rubinstein by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, whom the pianist helped launch. Rubinstein's tremendous digital attack once wrecked a piano of the late Queen Victoria, at a performance for the present Duke...