Rubinstein Festival

ES THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA RUBINSTEIN FESTIVAL TWO RECITALS: JERUSALEM ■ TEL AVIV TWO SPECIAL CONCERTS: TEL AVIV CONDUCTOR: ELIAHU iNBAL September 1968 ARTUR RUBINSTEIN ne Israel Philharmonic Orchestra again a galley slave,” Rubinstein answered : returned each year since then to triumph as the pleasure and profound honour to "Excuse me, Madame,a galley slave is ant successes. welcome the illustrious Pianist, ARTUR condemned to work he detests, but I am RUBINSTEIN, whose artistry has brought in love with mine; madly in love. It isn’t Rubinstein married the beautiful Aniela enjoyment and spiritual fulfillment to many work, it is passion and always pleasurable. Mlynarski, daughter of conductor Emil thousands of music lovers in our country, I give an average of a hundred concerts Mlynarski under whose baton he had to yet another RUBINSTEIN FESTIVAL. The a year. One particular year, I toted up one played in Warsaw when he was 14. Four great virtuoso, whose outstanding inter hundred and sixty-two on four continents. children were born to the Rubinsteins, pretation is so highly revered, has retained That, I am sure, is what keeps me young.” two boys and two girls. the spontaneity of youthfulness despite the Artur Rubinstein was born in Warsaw, the In 1954 Rubinstein acquired his home in passing of time. youngest of seven children. His remark Paris, near the house in which Debussy able musical gifts revealed themselves spent the last 13 years of his life, by the Artur Rubinstein could now be enjoying Bois de Boulogne. It is there that he now the ease and comforts of ‘‘The Elder very early and at the age of eight, after receiving serious encouragement from lives in between the tours that take him Statesman”, with curtailed commitments all round the world. With the exception of and extended periods of leisure. Instead, Joseph Joachim, he was sent to Berlin where he studied piano with Henrich Barth, Tibet and Afghanistan, he has visited all he continues to stick to a full schedule of the countries of the world and is fêted concerts and travel, one that many younger a pupil of Bulow, Tausig and Liszt. At eleven he played for the first time in everywhere as the greatest pianist of our irtists would not dare to undertake. Corn time. ered to most artists, Rubinstein is a public with Joachim conducting and a little /larathonian. One especially remembers later began giving concerts in the main Today Maestro Artur Rubinstein has play nis 1956 series of five Carnegie Hall con towns of Germany and Poland. In 1905 ed more concerts before more people, sold certs within two weeks, playing seventeen he made his first tour of the U.S.A, play more record albums (over 5,000,000), and concertos, a feat which was repeated in ing above all in Philadelphia and New York. attracted a greater following than any Tel-Aviv two years later, and his 1961 He then went back to Berlin and Paris other classical instrumentalist in history. exploit of performing ten solo recitals, the and played in the principal European cities. Yet for all the powers of the mind it is proceeds of which he donated to ten In 1916 Spain received him with acclaim; Maestro Rubinstein’s irrepressibly warm different charities. Each year he under he gave 120 recitals and became a familiar hearted and romantic spirit, his ebullient takes some comparable series for which figure in royal circles. A similar success love of life and people, that have created he stubbonly refuses to take any credit. awaited him in South America and it was the unforgettable personality which charms there that Rubinstein's outstandingly suc one and all. When an admiring lady once warned him cessful international career commenced. In We are happy to welcome again Maestro against overexertion, saying ‘‘You work like 1919 he again toured the U.S.A, and has and Mrs. Rubinstein and their daughter Alina. ELIAHU INBAL Eliahu Inbal was born in Jerusalem, conduct several orchestras, notably in Israel, in 1936. He received his musical Paris, as permanent conductor of the education at the Academy of Music, Jeru “Orchestre de la Cité Universitaire Inter salem (1952—1956), then with Paul Ben- nationale de Paris”, and the Conservatory Haim (1958—1960), Franco Ferrara, in Hil- Orchestra. versum (1960), Louis Fourestier and In 1963, he won the GUIDO CANTELLI In Manuel Rosenthal in the Paris Conserv ternational Competition for Conductors in atory (1960), and with Sergiu Celibidache, Novara. This, and the success he achieved in Siena (1961—1962). in the Winner’s Concert, brought him en After his graduation in 1956 (violin and gagements in many musical centers: Lon theoretical subjects) he began his con don, Zagreb, Bologna, Turin, Milan, Paler ducting career as guest conductor of the mo, Israel, etc. Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Haifa Mr. Inbal joined the Israel Philharmonic Symphony and the Zahal — Gadna Sym Orchestra on its tour to Australia and the phony Orchestra. He held the posi United States, where he led the orchestra tions of permanent conductor of the Zeire and Yehudi Menuhin in three concerts and Hagadna Symphony Orchestra and the Jascha Heifetz in the famous Hollywood Haifa Youth Symphony Orchestra and Bowl concert. He has also recently con Choir. In 1960, he was sent abroad for ducted The London Symphony Orchestra further study by the America Israel Cul with great success. tural Foundation, recommended by Leonard Bernstein, and later invited by the French We take this opportunity of expressing our Government to continue his studies. Dur congratulations to Maestro and Mrs. Inbal ing this period, he had the occasion to on the occasion of their recent marriage. IN THE FOREFRONT The New York Times SUNDAY, APRIL 28, Poland’s Anti-Jewish Campaign To the Editor: of public performances of an international Zionist con Some days ago the world “Dziady”, the masterpiece of spiracy, Zionist lackeys of observed the 25th anniversary Mickiewicz, Poland’s greatest Western imperialism.” Jewish of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, poet. Will the music of Chopin philanthropic organizations when 40,000 Jews took up arms be next to be prohibited from which have poured millions in a doomed effort to combat being heard in public? The of dollars into the economic Maestro Rubinstein Raises His Voice Against Injustice the Nazi forces. This was political ideology of Chopin and and social rehabilitation of surely one of the glorious chap his friend Mickiewicz was war-torn Poland are accused ters in the annals of martyr identical. of conspiracy, sabotage and Israel, Poland, Czechoslovakia,... These are the latest in the dom and heroic resistance to Since then Poland has been espionage at the behest of tyranny. What irony and trag undergoing a massive system international Zionism and long list of causes in which Maestro Rubinstein has personally edy that at this moment viru atic course of purge and pro Western imperialism. identified himself with the fight against injustice. lent anti-semitism is being re paganda whose central feature The moral nadir of this vived on Polish soil soaked has been its undisguised anti- campaign is the falsification with the blood of millions of Semitism. The Jewish commu and distortion of the facts of During the crisis prior to the Six Day War, at the protest Jews. The wave of anti-Jewish nity of 18,000, many elderly Jewish martyrdom at the rallies in Paris and during the difficult days that followed, hysteria in Poland is being or ill, is accused of disloyalty hands of the Nazis, the ob whipped up by potent reac and browbeaten into self- scene denigration of the Artur Rubinstein was always in the forefront, leading the list of tionary forces in the regime abasement. Dozens of distin Jewish victims of mass mur distinguished Artists who spoke up clearly and strongly and exploited as a weapon in guished Jewish academics, ar der. a power struggle, a scapegoat tists, writers and intellectuals This is the brutal lexicon for the right of human dignity and freedom. for popular discontent, a of international repute are used by Stalin and his anti- smoke-screen for economic called alien to Poland, charged Semitic purges of 1948-52 and When Poland began its anti-intellectual, anti-liberal and and political ills, an instru with being spiritual instigators in the infamous doctors’ plot ment to stifle progressive re of the student movement, ex he concocted in January 1953. anti-semetic campaign, it was the Maestro’s public statement forms demanded by the intel pelled from the Communist It is, tragically, the very lan ligentsia and students. The party and dismissed from their guage that has been revived (see letter in “The New York Times”) which proved to be the close link between anti-intel positions. in the Soviet Union since the lectualism, anti-liberalism and rallying force for over 1,000 Professors from some 100 Purge of Intellectuals Arab-Israel-War last June, in anti-Semitism is once again an ominous propaganda cam Universities in the United States, which endorsed and personally tragically demonstrated. Scores of students are. ar paign against the Jewish rested. All, intellectuals and associated themselves. On March 8 thousands of people. This is the policy and Warsaw University students students alike, are named and the propaganda now taken demonstrated for freedom of are pointed out as Jews. Many over and carried further by Now again with the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Russia and expression, fair trials and an hundreds of others less pro the Polish authorities. her satellite countries, the Maestro was the first to announce end to censorship. These de minent are also being purged I appeal to the leaders of monstrations spread swiftly to more quietly but not less efficiently.

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