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BACH: Two Violin Concerti...
...Americans. Protestants are skeptical of his Roman Catholic raising; devout Catholics deplore the fact that he is, in effect, excommunicated for marrying outside the Catholic Church. Even the schoolteachers of Ohio have reason to dislike him (he once vetoed a pay raise). He is a mystic who plays the violin or reads the poems of Robert Burns when he is moody, who keeps his own counsel, and who often agonizes in his own indecision. He runs from friends offering advice or seeking favors. He is intensely emotional, is sometimes moved to tears by the pathos of his own words...
...Opposition newspapers have sneeringly dubbed him "Fearless Frank,'' and even Loyalist Louis Seltzer editorially blasted him for compromising on a truck tax bill.) He runs the state with just two aides, and spends hours arguing with himself over difficult decisions (in such moments he frequently plays the violin). Like a chess player, he is always thinking three moves ahead, weighing the political consequences...
...time he was three, he was a "terrible little fiend" about music, screaming at his sisters when they struck a sour chord and banging the piano lid on their fingers to make them stop. Impressed with his son's possibilities, Papa Rubinstein bought him a child-sized violin. Artur promptly smashed it. Papa bought another, and Artur smashed that too. Papa gave up, let him concentrate on the then less fashionable piano...
...such vocalists as Marian Anderson, Renata Tebaldi, Zinka Milanov, Risë Stevens, Blanche Thebom, Roberta Peters, Mildred Miller. Jan Peerce, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren. What they performed was aimed at the millions-arias from Pagliacci, The Tales of Hoffmann, Tosca, Carmen, a Chopin Polonaise, a movement from the Mendelssohn violin concerto. It was seen or heard by an estimated 23 million people...