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All inquiries for advertising Protect Your Travel Funds with American Express rates should be sent to the above address. Travelers Cheques—Spendable Everywhere Apply Now for Your Comprehensive American Express World-Wide Credit Card Artur Rubinstein “The last of the great romantic performers in Only a few' months before, in introducing him the tradition of Liszt and Anton Rubinstein . the to the Concert Society of Paris ( a fraternal organi­ best living pianist . a great artist with the broad­ zation of professional musicians) Saint-Saëns had est popular following of any front-rank musician said: “Allow me to introduce to you one of the in the world.” — so Time Magazine recently de­ greatest artists I know. I forsee for him an admir­ scribed Artur Rubinstein. able career, and to say it all in a few words — he Artur Rubinstein was born in 1889 in Lodz. is worthy of the great name he bears.” Poland, the youngest of seven children by nine During the first tour which lasted three months years. He was, to quote him, “the Benjamin of his he gave seventy-five concerts. After leaving Ameri­ father,” who owned a hand-loom factory. ca, Rubinstein gave no concerts for several years. Artur displayed musical talent at the age of three. When he reappeared in Berlin in 1910 he was asked His uncle wrote to Joseph Joachim, the great Hun­ where he had been and what he had been doing. garian violinist and friend of Brahms, who pro­ “Oh”, he replied, “I have been dead for a few nounced the child’s talent extraordinary but warned years.” against forcing his development. Actually he had been in Paris devoting those Two years later Artur gave a concert for charity years to incessant study and (to quote him) “to in Warsaw and at eight studied in that city with hurdling the greatest obstacle in the path of a Prof. Rozycki. In a few months, however, he had prodigy, that of shedding my immaturity.” He suc­ absorbed all that tutelary could provide. ceeded in planting his feet firmly in the music of By a stroke of coincidence, Artur’s sister was the classics and the modern and in establishing going to Berlin to prepare for her marriage and his personal and pianistic freedom. took her prodigy brother to be presented to Jo­ He concertized extensively throughout Europe achim. The venerable pedagogue was so impressed during the next half-dozen years, playing in Moscow that he assumed responsibility for young Artur’s and also in St. Petersburg where he rendered the musical future — and sent him to study piano Anton Rubinstein Concerto in D Minor with Serge technique with Prof. Heinrich Barth, himself a Koussevitzky conducting the orchestra. pupil of Bulow, Taussig and Liszt. The amazing child was placed also with Max Bruch and Robert For his Vienna debut he had ordered a Bechstein Kahn for instruction in composition and harmony. piano which greatly upset the eighty-five year old At eleven, he made his formal debut in Berlin, Ludwig Bozendorfer (the Steinway of Vienna) playing the Mozart Concerto in A minor, with his who came out of retirement to gaze upon this musical godfather, Joachim, conducting the orches­ strange pianist who preferred a Bechstein to a tra. Bozendorfer. After the concert the old man pressed By the time he was fifteen, young Rubinstein the pianist’s hands saying, “These hands could had spread his talents to encompass most of Ger­ make a washboard sing, so why not a Bechstein?” many and Poland, playing once in Warsaw with Before the war broke out Rubinstein toured Italy the orchestra under the direction of Emil Mlynar- bearing a diplomatic passport presented to him ski, whose daughter Aniela, as yet unborn, was by Rome. His native Poland granted him a similar in later years to marry the brilliant soloist. document with the inscription: “On a mission of Joachim also sent his young charge to visit Pad­ art for Poland.” It was first honored by Alfonso of erewski who was enchanted with the youth’s ability. Spain when Rubinstein’s homeland had not even Rubinstein, a stripling of sixteen and already a an ambassador at the court. specialist in Chopin, Beethoven, Brahms and Liszt, By 1914 he had finished a tour of all the major first came to America in January, 1906, under the cities on the Continent, winding up in London auspices of William A. Knabe. At the time, Charles just as the war started. Although he wanted to join Henry Meltzer wrote of him, “He has the intel­ the Polish legion, his knowledge of languages (he ligence of maturity and the wit of a ‘boulevardier’.” speaks eight fluently) made him more valuable His first American appearance was in Philadelphia at headquarters as an interpreter. He remained with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the beginning there for several months until he undertook to play of the month, and his New York debut in Carnegie for the Allies a series of thirty joint concerts with Hall was made on January 8, 1906 with the same the celebrated violinist, Eugene Ysaye. orchestra under the directiton of Fritz Scheel. In In 1916 he made his first entry into Spain, where Philadelphia Rubinstein played the E Minor Con­ his mastery of De Falla and Albeniz evoked nation­ certo of Chopin; in New York he chose the G Minor al acclaim. Scheduled for four recitals he remained Concerto of Saint-Sains. to give 120. He became the adopted son of all A week after his Carnegie Hall appearance, on Spanish speaking countries, and one of the foremost January 15th, Rubinstein gave a recital at the Old interpreters of their music. Rubinstein becomes Casino Theatre. emotional beyond his customary animation when PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 22 6 THE MUSIC SEASON IN GERMANY Germany means many things, the romance of the Rhine, the poetry of the forest, the bustle of the cities. But most of all, Germany means music. The land of the three B’s — and of all the rest of the musical alphabet — pulses with great music in most places at most times of the year, but in the winter the musical world knows its season of greatest activity. The 1958-59 season holds particular promise for the music-lover visiting the concert-halls and opera houses of Western Germany. More than 300 symphony concerts have been announced in the German Federal Republic for the current season. Visitors to any city of moderate size will find musical events of interest almost every evening performed by fine orchestras. Concert seasons are scheduled by State and Municipal orchestras of Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Bonn, Cologne, Essen, Bremen, Kassel and Mannheim, to mention some of the outstanding musical centers. Almost every German city has an orchestra, and over 60 of them have standing opera companies with ballet. In addition to such groups, there are symphony orchestras maintained by radio stations in Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Baden-Baden, Stuttgart and Hamburg. Programs will include many new interpretations of the old masters, with particular emphasis on Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, and Richard Strauss. Outstanding modern symphonic music by such composers as Schoenberg, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Weber, Bartók, Prokofieff and Dallapiccola will be well represented and listeners will be able to follow contemporary trends in works by Bohuslaw Martinu, Siegfried Borries, Francesco d’Avalos, Karl Amadeus Hart­ mann, Hans Werner Henze, Salvatore Marirano, Egk, Orff, and many others. Mounting German podiums this winter will be many renowned conductors, including Herbert von Karajan, Paul Hindemith, Karl Boehm, Takashi Asahina, Sergiu Celibidache, Andre Cluytens, Dean Dixon, Igor Stravinsky, Jascha Horen- stein, Eugen Jochum, Otto Klemperer, Hans Rosbaud, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Mario Rossi. Of particular interest in 1959 will be widespread German commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the death of George Frederic Handel, the German master who was born in Halle in 1685 and who died in London on April 14, 1759. German Federal President Theodor Heuss will give an address in a special cere­ mony in Berlin for the anniversary.