Rubinstein was a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.
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The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.Donal Henahan
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.
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Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.
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Perhaps no hall of comparable size anywhere has served so nobly as a spawning ground for young talent and, it must be said, as a graveyard for the hopes of the mediocre.
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It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.
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