Word: rubinstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were performing that night, sticking a knife into an erect piece of bread at each place and turning the chairs upside down. At week's end, at last they filed onto the stage, where they heard the verdict of the 13-member panel of judges (including Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Robert Casadesus, Emil Gilels). The winners: first Ashkenazy, second Browning, third Czajkowski...
Audiences loved him, but he was squandering his talent, and he knew it. The solution for that was pretty Aniela Mlynarski, daughter of a Polish conductor with whose orchestra Rubinstein had played as a boy. He met her when she was 16, married her when she was 22 and he was 43. Within a year he was a father (of Eva, now an actress in the Broadway hit The Diary of Anne Frank), and the responsibility made a serious and disciplined musician out of him. "I didn't want people telling my child after I died, 'What...
...first time, Rubinstein began to practice regularly, began to explore the musical depths of the composers he had been playing with dazzling facility for so long...
...Quite, but Almost. These days Artur Rubinstein is on tour most of the time; each year he makes an extended tour of Latin America, with a stopover in Havana, where admirers keep him supplied with his own custom-made cigars.* "At home I get no rest," he complains amiably. "I must listen sweetly to my children or compliment them on something. My wife wants this or that, and there are friends to see and parties to go to. Touring is easy. I go to my hotel, and there is nothing to do but have my dinner and lie down...
...peace and quiet have nothing to do with Artur Rubinstein. In his painting-crammed Park Avenue apartment, or his painting-crammed house in Paris, or in the world's best restaurants and sleekest salons, he is always onstage and always in action-shrugging, mugging, clowning, hand-kissing, charming, talking, talking, talking. And in concert halls and auditoriums, gymnasiums, stadiums and town halls from Sydney to Saskatchewan he is making music with hands and heart, and always trying to do it better...