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...member of the team to whom Rubinstein got most accustomed. In just over three weeks, Porterfield went along to New York, Boston, Toronto, Washington, Durham (N.C.), Columbia (S.C.) and Cincinnati, questioning and listening in airplanes, taxis, concert halls and at cocktail parties. In Columbia, where Rubinstein played a sonata that he had played two nights earlier in Durham, he seemed to be testing Porterfield. Striding backstage immediately after finishing the sonata, Rubinstein asked: "Did you notice any difference between this time and the night before last?" "Yes," said Porterfield, "this time was better." Rubinstein turned to walk back onstage...
Rubinstein's feats of memory are legendary. In 1903 he caused a sensation in Warsaw by performing Paderewski's Sonata in E Flat Minor the day after it was published; he learned Cesar Franck's complex Symphonic Variations on the train en route to a concert hall in Madrid. He can commit a sonata to memory in one hour, and he can play as many as 250 lieder. His friends used to play a kind of "Stump Artur" game in which they would call out titles?excerpts from symphonies, operas, Cole Porter scores?to see if he could play them...
Next month he will tackle Brahms's Sonata in F Major for piano and cello with Gregor Piatigorsky. He has never played it before. But Cellist Piatigorsky is not at all concerned. "Artur," he says, "will read the score on the plane to California, and he will make it sink into his mind and into his fingers, and when he arrives, he will know it better than I, who have played it all my life...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 will present a concert of twentieth-century chamber music at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 12 on the Loeb main stage. Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will perform Villa-Lobos' Sixth String Quartet, Carter's Sonata for flute, oboe, cello, and harp sichord, Varese's "Density 21.5." A chorus will perform the world premiere of James Yannatos's "A Modern Dialogue...
FRANCIS POULENC: SEXTET FOR PIANO AND WINDS (Angel). Prokofiev-like flashes of wit and tipsy abandon brighten the sextet, while the Sonata for Flute and Piano sets afloat a dreamy cantilena, then juggles flashy melodic fragments into thin air, Michel Debost lightly plays the lyrical flute; Jacques Fevrier is the pianist with him and with the Paris Wind Quintet...