Word: rubinstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 2, Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Chopin's E-Minor Piano Concerto. Soloist: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Conductor: Bruno Walter...
George W. Bagby on a concert by famed Pianist Anton Rubinstein: "Well, sir, he had the blamedest, biggest, catty-corneredest pianner you ever laid your eyes on-something like a distracted billiard table on three legs. . . . Played well? You bet he did. When he first sit down, he peered to care mighty little about playing, and wished he hadn't come. He tweedle-eedled a little on the treble, and twoodle-oodled some on the bass. . . . All of a sudden, old Ruby changed his tune. . . . He lit into them keys like a thousand of brick. He give...
...Brailowsky is in the top ten of pianists but ranks below masters like Artur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz both in prestige and at the box office. But in South America he outdraws them all, and Latin women bombard him with flowers and kisses. Tickets for a Brailowsky concert bring black-market prices. Says Brailowsky: "There is the line like you saw here for nylon stockings...
Thanks to Arthur Rubinstein's recording of the sound tract, the thirty-eight versions of the Concerto and of some Chopin and Wagner all sound at their brilliant best. But forty-seven hearings of a work, part of which was identified by latter-day musicians in the audience as "Full Moon and Empty Arms," is too much for even the most insistent Raclunauaninof fan. Or maybe it was fifty...
This long, dull, maddeningly unmotivated story wastes the hard-working actors, famed Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Farewell to Arms), the Technicolor, the dressy sets. Only item worth the expense: the brilliant piano playing on the sound track by Artur Rubinstein, who was paid $85,000-a whopping price, even in Hollywood, for a musical background...