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Rubinstein wrote of his American experience, May Heaven preserve us from such slavery!
Under these conditions there is no chance for art — one simply grows into an automaton, performing mechanical work ; no dignity remains to the artist ; he is lost ....
The receipts and the success were invariably gratifying, but it was all so tedious that I began to despise myself and my art.
So profound was my dissatisfaction that when several years later I was asked to repeat my American tour, I refused pointblank ...

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