Vladimir Horowitz played a New York-built Steinway model D-274 ; Arthur Rubinstein preferred the Hamburg-built Steinway model D-274.

Anton Rubinstein was at that time the only Russian able to live on his art, while Balakirev had to live on income from piano lessons and recitals played in the salons of the aristocracy.

In December 1840, Rubinstein played in the Salle Érard for an audience that included Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt.

Chopin invited Rubinstein to his studio and played for him.

However, after Rubinstein had played his audition, Liszt is reported to have said, " A talented man must win the goal of his ambition by his own unassisted efforts.

As was the penchant at the time, much of what Rubinstein played were his own compositions.

In previous tours, Rubinstein had played primarily his own works.

On the other hand, when Rubinstein played Beethoven's " Archduke " Trio with violinist Leopold Auer and cellist Alfredo Piatti in 1868, Auer recalls:

" When caught up in the moment of performance, Rubinstein did not seem to care how many wrong notes he played as long as his conception of the piece he was playing came through.

Rubinstein played this series of historical recitals in Russia and throughout Eastern Europe.

I have never heard the virtuoso piece Islamey by Balakirev, as Rubinstein played it, and his interpretation of Schumann's little fantasy The Bird as Prophet was inimitable in poetic refinement: to describe the diminuendo of the pianissimo at the end of the " fluttering away of the little bird " would be hopelessly inadequate.

[...] I began again, but I had not played more than a few measures when Rubinstein said loudly, " Have you begun?

A couple of years later he played some of his own compositions in Vienna where he heard Franz Liszt play, and met Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Anton Rubinstein.

Rubinstein was disgusted by Germany's conduct during the war, and never played there again.

* Ravel's Boléro is one of his most famous works, originally written as a ballet score for his patron Blanche Lapin or commissioned by Ida Rubinstein, but now usually played as a concert piece.

Rubinstein never played for Hofmann, but gave ample evidence of his pianistic outlook during many recitals the boy heard.

He lost the one game he played with Emmanuel Lasker, had a draw and loss against José Raúl Capablanca, and heavy minus scores against Akiba Rubinstein, Ossip Bernstein and Milan Vidmar and was one game behind with Frank Marshall (+ 7-8 = 5 ).

Matisons played first board for Latvia at the 1931 Chess Olympiad in Prague and defeated Rubinstein and Alekhine, then the reigning World Champion.

Rubinstein had come to see its merits, and he played the solo part many times throughout Europe.

For purposes of the story he takes the body and role of ship's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Thaddeus Quint ( also played by Murray Rubinstein ), but Qaylan continues to see Q in his true form.

" The old lady psychic with a very high-pitched voice is a reference to the character played by Zelda Rubinstein in the 1982 horror film, Poltergeist.

The violinist Joseph Saunders had the second theme of the first movement carved on his tombstone, and Artur Rubinstein ’ s wish was to have the second movement played at his funeral.

A number of famous pianists have played some or all of the Ballades, incluing Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Artur Rubinstein, Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Glenn Gould, Wilhelm Kempff and Claudio Arrau.

22, by the Polish violin virtuoso, Henryk Wieniawski, may have been started in 1856, but the first performance did not take place until November 27, 1862, when he played it in St. Petersburg with Anton Rubinstein conducting.

Rubinstein was most famous for his series of historical recitals — seven consecutive concerts covering the history of piano music.

Rubinstein concluded his American tour with this series, playing the seven recitals over a nine-day period in New York in May 1873.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

Both before and during his marriage, Rubinstein carried on a series of affairs with women, including Irene Curzon.

Their initial career lasted until 1990, and singer Rubinstein committed suicide three years later following a series of tragic events.

The opening / closing theme to the series was performed by Donald Rubinstein ( who co-wrote the theme with Erica Lindsay ).

Accompanying the non-fiction book, the British Film Institute released an Author Video plus a series of official Beiderbecke Affair podcasts that include a video interview with William Gallagher and with Plater's wife, Shirley Rubinstein, plus audio commentaries by Gallagher for selected episodes of the Beiderbecke series.

In 1963 Jack Herbert Rubinstein and Hooshang Taybi described a larger series of cases.

* April 1977, Great Britain, New English Library Master SF series, ISBN 0-450-03000-8, paperback, with introduction by Hilary Rubinstein

With the exception of Murray Rubinstein and some minor players, the entire cast has appeared on one or more of the Star Trek TV series.

In 2001, Rubinstein published Across the Nightingale Floor, the first of the best-selling five book Tales of the Otori series under the pseudonym, Lian Hearn.

Known guest performers on the series include singer Marian Anderson and pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

The series is hosted by Linda Blair of the film The Exorcist, and narrated by Zelda Rubinstein, who is most famous for her role as the clairvoyant Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series.

Although best remembered as a pianist and educator ( most notably in the latter as the composition teacher of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ), Rubinstein was also a prolific composer throughout much of his life.

Rubinstein resigned and returned to touring throughout Europe.

Cadenzas for the Fourth Piano Concerto have been written by a number of pianists and composers throughout its history ; these include Clara Schumann, Ferruccio Busoni, Hans von Bülow, Ignaz Moscheles, Camille Saint-Saëns, Anton Rubinstein, Nikolai Medtner, Eugen d ' Albert, Leopold Godowsky, Samuil Feinberg and Marc-Andre Hamelin.

Rubinstein was born to Jewish parents in the village of Vikhvatinets in the district of Podolsk, Russia ( now known as Ofatinţi in Transnistria, Republic of Moldova ), on the Dniestr River, about 150 kilometers northwest of Odessa.

Liszt advised Villoing to take him to Germany to study composition ; however, Villoing took Rubinstein on an extended concert tour of Europe and Western Russia.

Determined to raise money to further the musical careers of both Anton and his younger brother Nikolai, their mother sent Rubinstein and Villoing on a tour of Russia, following which the brothers were dispatched to Saint Petersburg to play for Tsar Nicholas I and the Imperial family at the Winter Palace.

Word came in the summer of 1846 that Rubinstein's father was gravely ill. Rubinstein was left in Berlin while his mother, sister and brother returned to Russia.

The Revolution of 1848 forced Rubinstein back to Russia.

Despite his sentiments on ethnic politics in Russia, Rubinstein returned there occasionally to visit friends and family.

Rubinstein made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 1906, and thereafter toured the United States, Austria, Italy, and Russia.

Four cylinders made in Russia in 1895 – 1896, with music by Mendelssohn, Louis Brassin and Rubinstein, have been recently discovered and issued on CD.

Among his teachers in Russia were composer Victor Belyayev ( pupil of Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Glazunov ), who prepared Tcherepnin for St. Petersburg Conservatory ; Leocadia Kashperova ( renowned pianist, protégée of Anton Rubinstein ); and his professor at the Conservatory Nikolay Sokolov ( pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ).