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PAGE 20 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 24, 1982
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PARIS (JTA) — Arthur
Rubinstein, one of the world’s
greatest concert pianists, died at
his Geneva home Monday at the
age of 95. His companion and
friend, Annabel Whitcstone, said
that the maestro caught an
infection. Ms. Whitcstone said
Rubinstein did not want any
religious service after his death.
Rubinstein was a towering
artist, a storyteller and a
philanthropist who never refused
to give a gala performance on
behalf of charity, Israel or a Jewish
cause. One of his last public
concerts in the 1970s was in
London on behalf of ORT.
At the beginning of 1976, in his
last year of public performances,
the maestro flew to Tel Aviv to
record with the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra under the baton of
Zubin Mehta. He later wrote that
this “turned out to be by far the
most satisfying of all my previous
attempts.”
Rubinstein, an ardent supporter
of Israel, gave frequent concerts
there—appearing, as well, with the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra—
from the early days of the Jewish
state. To encourage and support
talented young pianists, he
initiated the International Piano
Master Competition, held in
Israel, which bears his name.
His musical association with
Israel dates back to 1924. On a
concert tour that took him from
Egypt to Greece, he found a way to
make an unscheduled stop in Tel
Aviv-Jaffa, which he had longed to
visit. “It made me happy to see the
old soil where my Jewish brethren,
in the Diaspora for 2,000 years,
found a place again in their
homeland," he said.
Upon his arrival in Tel Aviv-
Jaffa, Rubinstein was immediately
recognized and pressed into
playing. There was no concert hall
large enough to hold the great
number of people who wanted to
Rubinstein
hear him, so one was hastily
improvised in an empty hangar at
Lod (then Lydda) airport. The
audience of 2,000 people was
“standing room only”—literally,
because there were no chairs to be
found in the hangar.
I n talking about that concert in a
recent taped interview with David
Frost, the noted television
journalist, Rubinstein said that it
was “a very extraordinary concert.
I never forgot it.” He recalled that
Tel Aviv at that time “was
just...three little streets and the
desert behind it.”
The maestro also told Frost in
the interview, which was screened
at the gala dinner in his honor by
the American Committee for the
Weizmann Institute of Science at
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New
York City last Oct. 18, that he had
been a friend of Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, who sparked his
interest in the limitless vistas for
scientific research—and the crucial
role it could play—in a revitalized
Jewish homeland.
As the Weizmann Institute took
Palestinians* restrictions lifted
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli military authorities on the West
Bank have lifted restrictions imposed more than two years ago on
three prominent Palestinian nationalists alleged to have been
members of the National Guidance Committee which Israel
outlawed its a front for the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The three men who had been confined to their home towns and
denied the right to travel elsewhere on the West Bank or abroad are
Bashir Bargouti, editor of the Communist periodical Ataliya;
Samikah Khalil, chairman of a welfare organization in El Bireh;
and Ibrahim A-Tawil, the former m4yor of El Bireh deposed by the
Israeli authorities. Bargouti has been living in Ramallah.
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shape and flourished in Rehovot,
Rubinstein’s support of its
research work deepened. The
institute awarded him an honorary
doctor of philosophy degree in
1976 in recognition of this support.
The maestro also related that he
also knew other great Zionist
leaders, among them Max Nordau
and Nahum Sokolow, who
arranged one of his first concerts in
pre-state Israel. It took place
outdoors, in front of the King
David Hotel in Jerusalem. “1 knew
Sokolov from childhood,” said
Rubinstein, “because he edited a
Hebrew paper in Warsaw —
Hatzfira —and my father
contributed articles to that paper.”
Rubinstein carried on his father’s
commitment to Israel and was a
passionate champion of the Jewish
state and a strong supporter of its
cultural life. He gave concerts
there on the average of once a year
until his retirement in 1976.
Rubinstein told Frost he never
was the kind of musician who
spent all his time practicing and
had no time left to enjoy life. Many
young pianists, he continued, have
an “incredible technique because
they work it out to the last
minute...sitting at the piano
practicing eight hours a day...and
they have no life...1 would rather
become...a dishwasher.”
He confessed that there were
perhaps 50 beautiful pieces of
music he never performed publicly
because he had been too lazy to
practice. “1 never was a great
worker at the piano,” he said. “But
what the public liked was that
music was in me, it sung in me,
everything I played 1 was singing
inside."
Even in his retirement, in his 90s,
the maestro remained active in
public life, meeting people, helping
the young and taking a keen
interest in civic affairs. In
December 1978, he was presented
by President Carter and
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis with
the Kennedy Center’s Distinguished
Award.
Born in Lodz, Poland, in 1886,
he first studied in Warsaw and then
in Berlin. From his early days in
East Europe he maintained
throughout his life a good
command of Yiddish and a keen
interest in Jewish traditions and
Jewish lore.
Rubinstein gave his first concert
in Berlin when he was 11 and first
appeared in the United States in
1906 with the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie
Hall. By that time, at the age of 20,
he was already a world reputed
pianist.
At the outbreak of World War I
he volunteered for the Polish
Legion and served as a military
interpreter in London, then gave a
series of concerts for the Allied
cause and the Red Cross.
During World War II and the
Nazi occupation of Paris, where he
had had his home, Rubinstein
settled in California and became
an American citizen in 1946. He
was given the world’s most
prestigious medals and awards,but
on his 90th birthday he told an
interviewer, “What really pleases
me the most is to play the piano.”