Word: rubinstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve-year-old was a wise prophet. In 40-odd years of concert touring, Artur Rubinstein has logged some 1½ million miles, and played for more people than any concert pianist in history. Last week in San Francisco, Rubinstein reached the end of his longest U.S. tour. At 58, he had made go appearances in seven months, and to capacity audiences everywhere. After a few weeks' rest in his Hollywood home, he will set out again on a 34-concert tour of South America. Then will come a tour of Western Europe-except Germany, where Rubinstein has refused...
Name or Talent? To San Franciscans in their huge granite Opera House, as to most audiences, Rubinstein is a small, lumpy figure with a classic brow and a frizzy Harpo Marx-like mop, spotlighted on a distant stage. The impenetrable dignity Pianist Rubinstein manages to assume on stage conceals a talent for mimicry, a love of partying, and a quick-tongued...
...pushed toward famed Pianist Eugene d'Albert and introduced as "little Rubinstein." "In name or talent?" asked D'Albert. "Both," piped young Artur.* Once a gadabout bachelor ("My life is too naughty; I cannot write it"), he married at 43, now has two boys and two girls, youngest five months. Says Artur: "Boys are inclined to smile tolerantly and say 'Papa is a fine fellow-but a little mad.' But daughters-they understand-and adore! They know instinctively that an artist remains something of a child to the end of his days...
Pain & Revolt. No classical artist demands and so often gets Rubinstein's high minimum guarantee ($3,500 a concert), but he is a good investment. At one concert in Lincoln, Neb. last year, Rubinstein earned $5,400 as his share of the box-office receipts. His Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 was Victor's 1946 best-selling classical album. The $85,000 he collected for three days' piano playing for the movie I've Always Loved You is still a Hollywood record...
...pianists who rank with Rubinstein in the estimation of critics don't get around much any more (the great Josef Hofmann is 71, and in semiretirement; Artur Schnabel, 65, unexcelled at Beethoven, plays only a few concerts a year). And Vladimir Horowitz and Jose Iturbi, who ring the cash register as loudly as Rubinstein in individual concerts, don't make the long tours he does...