Word: rubinstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris' elegant Galerie Charpentier in the Faubourg-St. Honoré was jammed one day last week. The overflow crowd streamed through the doors and into the street, making the situation so trying that when Pianist Artur Rubinstein pushed his way to the fore, the management was reduced to making a pregnant woman (a non-buyer, no doubt) give up her seat to him. The crowd had come for the sale of the year-the 46 paintings from the collection of the late Margaret Thompson Biddle, who was the ex-wife of Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr. of Philadelphia...
...played brilliantly, but his So-concert tour was halted after 42 performances by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children), later became one of the world's most highly praised and best-paid artists; in Los Angeles. A protégé of Composer Anton Rubinstein, he developed brilliant technique (though his hands were so stubby that he required a specially shortened keyboard), retired several years after his triumphant golden-jubilee concert tour...
...cannot drink a glass of beer without its dilution in Handel's Water Music," Author-Critic Jacques Barzun wrote recently, in describing the amazing musical saturation of the U.S. atmosphere. This week Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein (see PEOPLE) enthusiastically echoes Barzun's point that "in spite of our perennial croaking about America's neglect of the arts, the country spends more money for music than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls...
Polish-born pianist Artur Rubinstein, 68, down south in Birmingham for a concert, looked back on decades of U.S. tours, hailed the cultural progress of the nation's hinterland, parts of which were once dismissed by H. L. Mencken as "the Sahara of the bozarts." Rubinstein sees the U.S. as a sprawling oasis: "In the past 25 years this country has made more advances than some places in Europe have made in 250 years. Small towns throughout America are more receptive to fine music than old cities in France like Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux...
...doesn't it happen more often? For roughly $200,000, the price of four half-hour variety shows, Impresario Sol Hurok put some of music's brightest stars into dazzling constellation. The camera let the viewer hover over the fingers of Guitarist Andres Segovia and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, linger in closeup on the intense face of Marian Anderson, share the lilt of Verdi's La Traviata with Victoria de los Angeles, stand amid the powerful climax of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, superbly acted and sung by Bulgaria's Boris Christoff. Festival showed, far more eloquently...