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    January 15, 1975 - Rubinstein Recital

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    The pianist took his place and began the concert as the audience sat in rows in the hall, according to a Boris Pasternak quote. A 19-year-old college student attended a piano recital by 87-year-old Jewish-Polish master pianist Arthur Rubinstein, who performed the challenging Bach Chaconne originally for violin and a piece by Franz Liszt as an encore, exciting one audience member.

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    The pianist took his place and began the concert as the audience sat in rows in the hall, according to a Boris Pasternak quote. A 19-year-old college student attended a piano recital by 87-year-old Jewish-Polish master pianist Arthur Rubinstein, who performed the challenging Bach Chaconne originally for violin and a piece by Franz Liszt as an encore, exciting one audience member.

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    The pianist took his place and began the concert as the audience sat in rows in the hall, according to a Boris Pasternak quote. A 19-year-old college student attended a piano recital by 87-year-old Jewish-Polish master pianist Arthur Rubinstein, who performed the challenging Bach Chaconne originally for violin and a piece by Franz Liszt as an encore, exciting one audience member.

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    January 15, 1975 - Rubinstein Recital

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    The pianist took his place and began the concert as the audience sat in rows in the hall, according to a Boris Pasternak quote. A 19-year-old college student attended a piano recital by 87-year-old Jewish-Polish master pianist Arthur Rubinstein, who performed the challenging Bach Chaconne originally for violin and a piece by Franz Liszt as an encore, exciting one audience member.

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    Monday, January 15, 1973.

    They sat down in rows in the hall . . . the pianist took his place at the
    instrument. The concert began.

    —Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago.

    I was a nineteen-year-old college sophomore. In the evening,


    accompanied by my sister and piano teacher, I attended a recital
    at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia given by the eighty-
    seven-year-old Jewish-Polish master pianist, Arthur Rubinstein. He
    opened the program with the challenging Bach Chaconne,
    originally a violin piece arranged for piano by Ferruccio Busoni. I
    firmly recall that Rubinstein played a piece by Franz Liszt as an
    encore, the Valse Oubliée (The Forgotten Waltz). When Rubinstein
    announced the selection, an audience member seated near me
    became visibly excited and I thought, “She must really like Liszt!”

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