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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 6, folder \"4/01/76 - Medal of Freedom\nPresentation for Arthur Rubinstein\" of the Betty Ford White House Papers, 1973-1977 at\nthe Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Betty Ford donated to the United States\nof America her copyrights in all of her unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nDate ssued3/29/76\nBy P. Howard\nRevised 3/30/76\nFACT SHEET\nMrs. Ford's Office\nEvent MEDAL OF FREEDOM CEREMONY\nGroup For: Arthur Rubinstein\nAPRIL 1, 1976\nDATE/TIME Reception at 12:00 Noon - Ceremony at 1:00 p.m. - Private Luncheon at 1:25\npm\nContact Pat Howard\nPhone\nNumber of guests: Total approx. 200 Women\nX\nMen X\nChildren\nPlace State Floor\nPrincipals involved President and Mrs. Ford\nParticipation by Principal\nyes\n(Receiving line) yes\nRemarks required\nyes\nGERALD R. FORD LIBERARIN\nBackground\n--\nREQUIREMENTS\nSocial:\nGuest list yes (Social Entertainments' Office will distribute - X 2510)\nInvitations yes\nPrograms no\nMenus no\nRefreshments coffee and fruit pastries and luncheon format\nEntertainment no\nDecorations/flowers\nyes\nMusic yes\nSocial Aides\nyes\nDress Business Suits - Short Dresses for the Ladies\nCoat checkyes (DRR)\nOther\n--\nPress:\nReporters . yes\nPhotographers yes\nTV Crews yes\nWhite House Photographers YES\nColor YES Mono.\nOther\nTechnical\nSupport:\nMicrophones\nyes\nPA Other Rooms\nno\nRecording\nyes\nLights no\nTransportation cars enter thru SW Gate\nParking South Grounds\nHousing\n--\nOther\n--\n(Risers,stage,platforms)\nyes\nProject Co-ordinator\nPat Howard\nPhone 2927\nSite diagrams should be attached if technical support is heavy.\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nMarch 25, 1976\nFORD i GERALD LIBRARY\nTO:\nMRS. FORD\nFROM:\nMARIA DOWNS\nEnclosed are Henry's proposed menus for the small\nluncheon honoring Arthur Rubinstein to be held after\nthe presentation ceremony awarding him the Medal\nof Freedom.\nHenry's thinking was because of Mr. Rubinstein's\nage it might be wise to serve the crab cakes or\nsomething similar. I know the cakes would be delicious\nbut somehow this strikes me as a very special occasion\nthat calls for something more elegant. The lamb chops\nmay pose a problem to Mr. Rubinstein so I have\nincluded a third menu which might handle both situations.\nPlease let me know what you would like.\nFriday\nApril 2, 1976\n11-15 guests\n12:30 PM\nLUNCHEON\nMenu # 1\nBeef Consomme\nCheese Straws\nCrab Cakes w/ Mustard Sauce\nSteamed Rice\nLeaf Spinach\nMacedoine of Frest Fruit\nPetits fours\nMenu # 2\nLobster Bisque\nCheese Straws\nBroiled Lamb Chops\nFORD & LIBRARY GERALD\nFresh Asparagus\nTossed Green Salad\nStrawberry Mousse\nMedal of Freedom Luncheon\nFriday, April 2, 1976\n12:30 PM\nLUNCHEON\nAvocado Soup\nRoast Loin of Veal\nBroiled Tomatoes with Mushrooms\nString Beans\nLeaf Spinach Salad\nLemon Mousse with Strawberries\nFORD & GERALD BRARY\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nMarch 29, 1976\nFOR:\nMRS. FORD\nBERALD R. FORD\nFROM:\nMARIA DOWNS\nLIBRARY\nThe background on the Rubinstein children is quite interesting. Miss Alina\nRubinstein is 26 and a medical student at Columbia. \"Miss\" Eva Rubinstein\nis 38 or 39 and a professional photographer. Eva was married to the William\nCoffin, Jr. of Yale. They have been divorced about 10 years and she has\ntaken her maiden name. John Rubinstein is about 30 and had the lead in \"Pippin.\"\nPerhaps it might be interesting to Susan or Jack to join the luncheon if they\nare available.\nI have also had a request to add Mr. and Mrs. Buchen to the luncheon because\nMrs. Buchen was instrumental in this presentation. It is my belief there were\nothers who were also instrumental such as Barbara MacGregor. When we\nopen the door, where do we stop? The luncheon list as it stands are all requests\nof Mrs. Rubinstein.\nPlease let me know whether Susan or Jack can attend and what your feeling is\nof expanding the luncheon.\nThank you.\nThis ageless hero,\nFORD\nRubinstein\nLIBRARY\nGERALD\nHe cannot go on like this forever (though some\nwould not bet on that). In fact, there are now some troubling signs.\nthough eventually quite sobering hours with him\nand was ready to receive me, all apologies. He\nBy Donal Henahan\nin his suite at the Drake Hotel. The first minutes,\nhad the flu, he said, and his wife had been\nas usual, were taken up in making sure the\ncalling him to tell him to cancel his tour. \"But\nvisitor had the most comfortable, the softest seat\nwhen I am at the piano, my sickness goes away\nOne day. in what we may only hope is the\nin the room. Rubinstein insisted on a plain, hard\nand that makes me terribly happy. I won't cancel.\"\ndistant future, an archeologist sifting through the\nchair for, himself. \"All my life I have been sitting\nDespite all, he managed to be vivacious and\ndetritus of Western civilization may come upon\nup straight, you know. Which reminds me of\nfull of stories I had not heard before. Since\ncertain puzzling artifacts. A' pair of tennis sneakers,\na story, a very funny story.\n(And\noff\nhe\nthen, I often have thought of Rubinstein in that\nperhaps, with 4-inch platform soles. A goose-quill\ngoes. If you have questions to ask Rubinstein,\nBuffaio hotel room, trying to sleep off the flu,\npen with a felt tip. A petrified senator holding\nyou had better get them in early or it's no\nand at the mercy of whoever might pick up\na Pentagon budget request. Or, if Western civiliza-\nuse.) \"Not long ago in Boston, they gave me\nthe house phone. And I try to imagine how\ntion is lucky, some piano recordings made by\nwhat is called the Agnon Award. You know who\ngracious I would have been under similar circum-\nArthur Rubinstein when he was on the brink\nAgnon was? S. Y. Agnon, the old Hebrew poet\nstances. Not very, I'm afraid.\nof 90 and still playing with astonishing vigor,\nwho died a few years ago. He won a Nobel\nGrace under pressure is a gift not given to\nvirtuosity and panache. Like Heinrich Schliemann\nPrize and they named this award for him. Well,\nmost people, and for a long time now Rubinstein\npondering the myths and legends of Homeric\nas it happened, I had been giving a concert\nhas been graceful under the ultimate, inescapable\nTroy, the excavator will have a mystery on his\nin Jerusalem some years ago and a friend of\npressure of being old. How did he get that way?\nhands\nDid\nbenighted\nto\nsee\nme\nsaid\nAnd more puzzling bow does he stay that way?\ntimes?\nhim,\nyou\nsaid,\nTo answer those questions with confidence,\nWe know the answer, of course. Rubinstein\ndon't know, this is the first time in my life\none would have to know exactly how to solve\nmade his New York debut 70 years ago at Carnegie\nthat I go to a concert. But I like how you sit\nthe old equation in which nature and nurture\nHall, performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra\n80 straight at the piano'.\"\nare both unknown factors. As far as he knows,\non Jan. 8, 1906. But actually he has been playing\nYou are never far from a good laugh when\nRubinstein does not come from particularly long.\nin public for 85 years. Although he did not make\nyou are around Rubinstein, but his is not a\nlived ancestors, although the pogroms and wars\nhis formal debut until he was 7 years old, he\nmindless good humor. An Academy Award-winning\nthat swept over Poland in the last century or\nwas performing for small audiences of family\ndocumentary film about his career, made in 1968\nso seem to have made that question academic.\nfriends in his native city of Lodz, Poland, by\nbut released here only last year, was titled \"Love of\nHis six brothers and sisters, for instance, disap-\nthe age of 4 and at 6 was appearing at charity\nLife,\" and It is true, he says, that \"I love life un-\npeared along with six million other Jews during\nconcerts. He had taken to the piano unbidden\nconditionally.\" He shrugs impatiently. \"But it is\nWorld War II. Physically and mentally, he has\nand uncoerced, at 3, when his parents brought an\nnot that I walk around stupidly smiling [pantomime\nbeen a living refutation of the old wives' tale\nold upright into their home so that two older\nof a slack-jawed, grinning lout].\"\nabout the weakness of children born to older\nsisters could take lessons.\nfathers: He was the seventh child, born when\nThomas Mann, hardly one to be impressed by\nTomorrow night, he has another recital scheduled\nhis father was past 40, a ripe age in the Poland\na stupid smile, called Rubinstein \"that civilized\nat Carnegie Hall. Nothing special. Just one of\nof that day. Rubinstein's physique has often been\nman,\" and a story of my own may illustrate\n20 appearances on his United States itinerary\nmentioned as a reason for his continuing puissance.\nhis deep-grained civility. The city was Buffalo, where\nthis season. And yet, each time Rubinstein steps\nHe is not tall (5 feet 8 inches) or heavy (about\non a bitter midwinter's night four years ago I\n165), but he has a powerful chest, blacksmith\nout on a stage nowadays, it is something to\nwent to talk with Rubinstein on the occasion\nnote, for the man's spirit and prowess at 89 make\nbiceps and disproportionately long legs.\nof his 85th birthday, the trip being necessary\nhim a musical, not merely a gerontological,\nbecause his concert schedule at that time was\nUntil now, at least, be has suffered from almost\nphenomenon. By his latest reckoning, he was born\nnone of the usual human infirmities. He has\nto bring him no nearer to Manhattan. I arrived\non Jan. 28. 1887. He cannot go on like this forever.\nat his hotel in the evening at what I believed\nno arthritis or rheumatic aches, and subscribes\nprobably, although there are people who know\nwas the agreed-upon hour, called his room and\nto no fanatical health-food regimen. He arises\nhim well who would not care to bet on that.\nfound to my horror that Rubinstein had not been\nat 8 or thereabouts, hungry for breakfast, but\nMax Wilcox, for one. Wilcox, who has produced\ntold of our date. A' communications breakdown\nfirst does about 20 minutes of setting-up exercises.\nmore than 60 Rubinstein records for RCA and\nsomewhere in his entourage, I later learned.\nHowever, he gets his most stremuous exercise\nfive concerto performances for television, has sev-\nMoreover, the voice on the phone instantly\nby playing the piano-which is perhaps exercise\neral sessions planned for next month when the\nsuggested itself as that of a man who had been\nenough if you play as flamboyantly as Arthur\ntireless Arthur is scheduled to record two more\naroused from sleep. He grasped finally that I\nRubinstein. According to his wife and other inti-\nMozart concertos. More fuel for the Arthurise\nwas from a newspaper, but apparently thought\nmates of long standing, be takes no pills of\nlegend.\nit was a local one, and my attempts to explain\nany kind other than vitamin C. For many years,\ndid not penetrate. But he said, \"Please, can you\nhe has enjoyed the best wines and the most\nThe other day, while Rubinstein was stopping\noff in New York during a midwinter break in\ngive me 15 minutes before coming up?\"\nexpensive cigars (two or three a day, only with\ncoffee) and, in his sybaritic approach to daily\nhis concert schedule, I spent several exhilarating\nWhen I arrived at his room, unexpected and,\nexistence, has long been the Winston Churchill\nI am quite sure, unwanted, Rubinstein had gotten\nof the plano, His adherence to the Pleasure Principle\ninto a dark blue suit, with the rosette of a\nis no doubt rooted somehow in his genes and\nDonal Henahan is a music critic for The Times.\nCommander of the Legion of Honor in a lapel,\nnurtured by a lifetime of adulation. But he also\n18\nAdvertisement\nbservations\nThe lion's share. Who reaps the most\ncash when gasoline pump prices\nrise? Actually, federal, state and\nlocal governments. They collect six\ntimes more in taxes per gallon than\noil companies make. For the record,\nmost oil companies average about 2# profit per gallon of gasoline. Fed-\neral and state taxes average 12# per gallon. It may be that the gasoline\npump has become America's most efficient tax collector.\nWith his wife: Arthur and Aniela Rubinstein, at a party in New York in 1971\non the occasion of his 84th birthday. They were married in 1932.\nBack to basics? Yeah, well, like, uh, there was this big test, see, that, uh,\nthese kids took to test their, you know, their writing abilities and what do\nyou think was revealed? Youngsters now write as they talk, in mass media\nfeels there is a pragmatic philosophical\nhimself born again, looking at the\nstyles of TV, newspapers and advertising. Sampling thousands of student\nbasis for his cheery temperament and\nworld with an ecstasy that, 68 years\nopen nature, and his ability to sustain\nlater, he manages to sustain. This\n\"essays,\" the National Assessment of Educational Progress discovered\na youthful outlook into what is, chron-\nis not a man glumly marking time,\nincreased Incoherence, conceptual fuzziness and fragmented phrasing-\nologically, very old age.\nwaiting to be released from life. Three\nespecially among seventeen-year-olds.\nIn fact, the civility and wholehearted\nyears ago, he published his first book,\nNow the good news. Oil people have been quick to point out that\nhumanism that his audiences sense\nthe charming memoir entitled \"My\nmany Americans-college grads among them-don't know enough about\nand find so appealing is completely\nYoung Years. His newly recorded\nbasic economics and are fuzzy on the role of profits, the need to raise\nunsentimental in origin and grew out\ncomplete set of Beethoven concertos\ncapital, and the incentives of a free market. Happily, that's changing, with\nof Rubinstein's clear-eyed analysis,\nis'ont this month.\nuniversities reporting a sharp upturn in enrollment in economics courses.\nearly on, of a hard world. He is\nAccording to Max Wilcox, who has\nSome schools report that basic economics has replaced biology as the\na firm agnostic. \"When I was a child,\nproduced all of Rubinstein's recordings\nfavorite field of study-apparently leaving the birds and the bees to extra-\nI looked and I did not see any god.\nsince 1959, the Beethoven sessions\ncurricular activities.\nI doubt if Moses saw him, really.\n\"went terribly well.\" Done last year\nAll those little girls who saw the\nin London with Daniel Barenboim con-\nVirgin. All that, no, a lie.\" He laughs\nducting the London Philharmonic, the\nand waves one of the largest hands\nfive concertos were recorded in seven-\never placed at the disposal of a great\nand-a-half sessions, a total of not\nquite. That would be very\nis, an octave plus four more keys.\nquick for anybody, but for someone\n\"They did not convince me. Jeanne\nwho's nearly 90, well. Wilcox\nd'Arc, a charming story. But not my\npauses to think. \"Has there ever been\nidea of what is. Look at those Irish\na reigning piano virtuoso at this age?\n5\n3\npeople now, who produce such fine\nI don't think so.\" Saint-Saens, Isidor\npoetry-civilized, musical people, like\nPhilipp, Francis Planté and others\nyou and me. But one side is Protestant\nplayed in public when they were ap-\nand the other is Catholic, so they\nproaching or even past 90, but ap-\nkill each other for it. The Arabs and\nparently at nothing like Rubinstein's\nthe Israelis, what do they want of\nlevel.\neach other? The Arabs have Mo-\nhammed, Israel has another fellow,\nAnother who has worked closely\nso they say, sorry, but we must kill\nwith Rubinstein-at his side, in fact,\nyou for that. So, long ago, I decided\nas piano tuner and sometime page\nI did not see any god. We are put\nturner-is Stephen Borell. Formerly\nhere on earth without being asked\nhead technician of Steinway (and later\nif we want to live, just like any\nof Baldwin). Borell is on his own\n\"BECAUSE BATTERIES GO DEAD IN POCKET CALCULATORS, THAT'S WHY.\"\nanimal but more unfortunate because\nnow and no longer tunes Rubinstein's\n©1976 by permission of Saturday Review and Brenda Burbank.\nwe also have this brain.\" Rubinstein's\nSteinways. But for years he traveled\nvoice has lost its rich timbre by this\nwith the pianist to tend his piano,\ntime and dropped to an enervated\nand finds it easy to grow lyrical\nA quote we like. \"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish-\nwhisper. Then, jerking himself up\nabout both the artist and the man.\ndon't overdo it.\" Confucius\nstraight, he brightens.\n\"He has such a spirit, such a sense\n\"I felt I was. left alone in the\nof humor, such a natural graciousness.\nSecond time around. If you missed Eugene O'Neill's A MOON FOR THE\nAnd\nthat\ntone.\nThe Rubinstein\nworld, forced to live.\" And here he\nMISBEGOTTEN as a Mobil Showcase Presentation last year on TV, you\nlaunches into one of his favorite sto-\ntone, full and sonorous at any volume\nmight welcome seeing it this week over the Public Broadcasting Service.\nries, about the time when he tried\nlevel, has been one of the distinctive\nto hang himself. He made the attempt\nfeatures of his playing from the begin-\nPraised by critics as a \"magnificent\" production, it stars Colleen Dew-\nhurst and Jason Robards, and was co-directed for television by Jose\nin Berlin at the age of 21 when\nning, and piano experts have never\nhis career had hit bottom. It was\ngiven up trying to explain it. Borell\nQuintero and Gordon Rigsby. Check your TV listings for broadcast time\nknows all the theories-the thick\nin your area.\na gray day in 1908. He was out\nof money and being dunned by hotels\npads of flesh at the fingertips, the\nand restaurants. He could not get\narm-weighted stroke, the pliant wrists\n-but he has a close-up observation\nconcert engagements. He was not,\nfor the moment, in love. So he tried\nto offer, too.\nMobil®\nto hang himself in his bathroom. For-\n\"Sitting beside him and turning\ntunately, the rope (his bathrobe belt)\npages, I was able to watch what he\nbroke and sent him sprawling (\"If\ndoes, and I discovered something sur-\nI saw today such a scene on television,\nprising. You know the way he likes\nI would roar with laughter,\" he com-\nto rise off the piano bench, lift his\nObservations, Sex A, Mobil ON Corporation, 150 East 42 Street, New York, N.Y. 10017\nments in his memoirs). And he found\nhands high (Continued on Page 28)\n01976 Mobile a Corporation\nEvelyn Holer\n61\nThe artist at 89: Young people who hear Arthur Rubinstein this season must strain their imaginations to realize that this man was 10 years old when Brahms died.\nThe New York Times Magazine/March 14, 1976\nI was still alive. Look\nContinued from Page 20\n\"A man has the right to know\nstill can walk and talk\nover the keys and bring\nJove, I tell you I had a\nthem down with what you'd\ntime. I wanted them to\nwhat goes into the Scotch he drinks.\"\nexpect to be a terrible crash.\nme in which part of the\nWell, I noticed that, just be-\nthe soul is located but\n-Sir James Buchaman\nfore hitting the keys, be stops\ncouldn't.\"\nfor a split second and then\nLast year, for the first\n\"At The House of Buchanan,\nGlentauchers\nproducts of the famed\npushes on into them. It's done\nin 16 years, he went ba\nwe still believe and blend as\nGlenlivet region.\nso fast you can barely see it,\nPoland, where he visited 1\nbut that's what happens.\"\nan event that was docume\nmy grandfather did.\n\"Together they combine\nRubinstein enjoys the dramat-\nin a film titled \"The o\nTREMS\nto make Buchanan's 12 the\nic impact that he can provide\nback.\" He had been quit\n\"It is a family tradition.\nwith such high-handed tactics,\nprehensive about retu\n\"A matter of family pride:\nBalmenach\n12-year-old blended Scotch\nbut it is not done purely for\nafter 90 many years, d\nthe eyes, as you can prove by\nwhich both his homeland\n\"Pride in the excellence\nwith heart of pure High-\nclosing your own when be is\nhe had changed so much\nof the blend which bears my\nland whiskies'.\nabout to strike. In fact, an al-\neverything went well. \"I\nmost imperceptible pause be-\nvery touching country,\ngrandfather's name and mine,\n\"For no other single-\nfore pushing into the keys can\nBenrinnes\nknow, a very proud little .\nmalts but Highlands are used\nact to cushion the tone, and\nBuchanan's 12.\ntry. They have somethin\nif you have a piano handy you\ncommon with the Spania\nin Buchanan's 12.\nmight even be able to check\ncertain noble pride. A bit\n\"If you choose to sample\nout Borell's theory for your-\npid, some practical P\nself. \"The man doesn't just\nmight say. They will\nCragganmore\nit, you will find it as it was\nsit down at a strange piano\nthousand strong agains\nwhen it began:\nand start playing.\" Borell\narmy of a million Russ\ngoes on, \"He experiments for\nfighting with forks and sp\n\"Subtle.\na while to find out what its\nand I don't know what.\npotential is, what its charac-\nare already proud to I\n\"Light.\nter is. Then be adjusts with\nthat, if they fall on the be\nDailuaine\n\"But with tempered\nincredible speed. That's typi-\nfield, there will be bear\ncal of his whole approach to\npoems written in their b\nmellowness in both body and\nlife, too.\" No man is a hero\nThey have kept that,\nbouquet.\nto his valet, it says in Pin-\nnow. They are the only\ntarch, but Arthur Rubinstein\nwho opposed Hitler from\n\"In your country, it is\nis a hero to his piano tuner.\nto last.\"\nCraigellachie\ndearly priced.\nIf you turn on your televi-\nRubinstein seldom goe\nsion set, you may well come\nfor long without talking\nSir James Buchanan (Lord Woolavington)\n\"And in very limited\nupon this ageless hero play-\nitics, especially internat\n1849-1935 Founder House of Buchanan\nsupply\ning a concerto by Brahms,\npolitics in relation to 1\nChopin Beethoven in the\n\"where have been pl\n\"That is why, unlike\nGlenlossie\n\"Because we neither can,\nGreat Performers\" series (he\nfor nothing, you know, &\nalso has done Grieg and Saint-\nlast 30 years.\" He is out\nany premium blended Scotch\nnor will, mass-produce the\nSaens, for future release).\nby the treatment Israel\nScotch that bears my grand-\nMusical America has named\nbeen getting in the U\nwhisky ever sold in America,\nhim Musician of the Year for\nNations and has as\nwe take pride in naming the\nfather's name.\n1976. Everywhere he goes\nrespect for that body\nprincipal single malts which,\nGlen\nElgin\n\"And mine.\"\nsomeone presses a new award\nfor all the other b\nor honorary degree upon him.\nthat misgovern the P\namong other exceptional\nLast year he was invited to\nof the world-his peopl\nJames Burrann\ntake part in a symposium on\nof them his personal fri\nwhiskies, go into our blend.\n\"The Majesty of Man\" at the\n\"Look here, the United\n\"If you know fine Scotch,\nStanford University Medical\ntions, if you will allow\nLochnagar\nCenter, to discuss the mys-\nsay it, is an assembly\nyou will recognize them all.\nteries of human creativity. His\nlutely of rascals. It is\n\"And fully appreciate why\nfellow panelists were scien-\nposed to be a gentle\ntists, including two Nobel\nclub. So in this club they\nthe whiskies selected combine\n12\nPrize-winners, Linus Pauling\nhad a Stalin, heh, heh, I\nand Joshua Lederberg. Poor\nMr. Kadar who has ki\nto set Buchanan's 12 apart,\nTeaninich\ninnocent scientific souls\ndon't know how many\n\"The selection is choice.\nAs anyone could have told\nsands of people in Hus\nthem, Rubinstein does not\nThe Czech fellow wh\n\"Limited to 12 'Ideals'.\nappear on panels, he performs\nwould like to kick. A1\n\"Each the product of an\nMEHANAAS\non them. According to a\nthose others who are no\nreport in The Stanford\nfor such a club, who\nold, established and well\nMortlach\nObserver, the pianist waited\nknow what it is all about\nrespected distillery,\nuntil the others had\nabsurdity, really.\"\ncarried on for a time about\nRubinstein, who was\n\"Each and every one, from\n\"how 1/10-volt nerve Impuls-\nin Parts with his wife\nes travel at 250 miles per\nBalmenach through Teaninich,\ntwo children (subseq\nColeburn\nhour through the body,\" and\ntwo more arrived)\nis a Highland whisky.\nthen began to talk about \"his\nWorld War II broke\nconcept of happiness and the\npicked up his family\n\"And two, Cragganmore\nimportance of emotion.\" As\nmoved to the United s\nand Dailuaine, are cherished\nthe reporter noted with un-\nlike so many European\nconcealed glee, Rubinstein\ngee artists, among\nstole the show. Recalling the\nMann, Bartok, Schoe\nevent now, Rubinstein chor-\nHindemith and Strav\nBuchanan's 12. The Blend of Ideals.\nties over how \"they wanted\nAnd like so many of\nto poke my brain and exam-\nRubinstein moved to C\nine me-they seemed amazed\nnia, where he settled in I\nBlended Scotch Whisky 86.8 Proof, Heublein, Inc. Hartford, Conn.\n28\nLONDON\nSwimook\nLEEDS\nGATESHEAD\nhaw\nGIVOT\n/\nMAIDSTONE\nWith his piano: Rubinstein in 1906, when he made his Amer-\nican debut. He did not make \"an unforgettable impression.\"\nly Hills in what was, by that\nrio. Now, of course, the Great\ntime, his 32d home. He be-\nSol is gone, too, and Rubin-\ncame a United States citizen\nstein is lonelier for it.\nin 1946 but now lives- when\n\"I met Hurok when I was\nA gentle reminder (as if you need one).\nhe is not making the interna-\n40, you know, and we were\ntional hotel circuit on his in-\nboth struggling to begin. Cha-\ncessant tours - in homes in\nliapin, who was my dear\nMarbella on Spain's Costa del\nfriend-my big brother al-\nSol and in his prewar house\nmost, I adored him-invited\non the Avenue Foch in Paris,\nme to his hotel here in New\nIf you recognize the gentleman (and who doesn't?), and if\nclose 'to the onetime\nYork\nThis\nwas\nof Debussy.\nin those for me very dark\nyou've heard the gong (and who hasn't?), you know the pro-\nMany of Rubinstein's old\n20's, you see. And there was\nductions will be great. And they are.\nfriends have deserted him by\na little man sitting in the\nnow and while the ranks have\ncorner. Chaliapin treated him\nThere is no second Rank in hotels. Not where we are with\nbeen filled by the multiplying\nterribly, told him to sit there,\nmillions of us who know him\ndon't speak, things like that.\nwhat we offer. Which is considerable. We're all you need to\nthrough his music-making, the\nI played 'Petroushka' on the\nknow in London. Nobody outranks us for diversity of hotels\nabsentee list is a glorious\npiano and the little man -\none. Man and boy, Rubinstein\nwho, of course, was Hurok\nand rates, from 5-star luxury to the brand newest budget\nhas been close to virtually\n-thought It was fine.\"\nbuy in town. Rank has its very special privileges for guests in\nall the important artists and\nAt the time of meeting\nParis and Brussels. And its pleasures in unusual resorts from\npublic figures of the century.\nHurok, Rubinstein was\nHe was, it is startling to real-\nmiddle-aged and a notoriously\nthe Italian Alps and Scottish Highlands to sunny Sardinia and\nize, a protégé of Joseph\nerratic artist. Although he had\nthe Canaries.\nJoachim, the man to whom\nmade his New York debut\nBrahms dedicated his Violin\nin 1906 and had returned in\nConcerto, and of Paderewski,\n1919 for a second try at the\nIn all, 17 productions that will really give you a top Rank time.\nthe only planist ever to be\nbrass ring on the American\nWhether you're going to Europe for business, pleasure or\nthe political leader of his\nconcert carrousel, he had made\nboth. Join the Ranks and we'll prove it to you. (Maybe we\ncountry (one makes this state-\nsomething less than an unfor-\nment in full recognition of\ngettable impression. Technical-\nshould say, we'll give you the shirt off our back. But after all,\nthe fact that Harry Truman,\nly, he insists (although there\none picture is worth a 1,000 words.)\nRichard Nixon and others\nare those who will dispute him\nhave been known to sit at\non the basis of existing record-\nthe instrument on occasion).\nings) he was not first-class.\nHe was befriended by Saint-\nSo, after his marriage at 43 in\nSaens, rubbed elbows and\n1932 to Aniela Mylnarski, he\nminds with Hemingway and\nmade up his mind to become\nHotels\nPicasso (\"I knew him before\na responsible fellow. He clois-\nRank\nhe was Picasso and I was\ntered himself in an Alpine\nRubinstein\") and championed\nThe hotels the rest of Europe stays at.\nvillage and practiced 12 to\nthe music of such friends as\n16 hours a day, trying to\nInformation and reservations: N.Y.C., call (212) 421-2353.\nStravinsky, Albéniz, Grana-\nrebuild from the ground up\nRank Hotels (Sales) Ltd., 444 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022\nOr call (212) 586-5099. LRI (Loews Reservations Inc.),\ndos, Falla, Szymanowski,\na technique that could match\n666 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10019.\nRavel, Poulenc and Milhaud\nhis innate musicality and flair.\nOutside New York State, call 800-223-5560 toll-free.\nwhen these names were con-\n\"You see, before that I was\nOr check the Yellow Pages and call LRI in your area toll-free.\nsidered part of the accursed\na little too interested in other\navant-garde. He even-yes,\nthings at certain periods of\nENGLAND. London: The Alexandra National, The Athenseum, The Gloucester, The Royal Garden, The\neven this-knew Sol: Hurok\nmy. life. I adored literature.\nRoyal Lancester, The White House, Gateshead: The Five Bridges. Maidstone: The Great Danes. Leeds: The\nMerrion. Bristol: The Unicorn. Swindon: The Wiltshire. SCOTLAND. Invernes-shire: The Coylumbridge.\nbefore Hurok was an impresa-\nI enjoyed hearing intelligent\nBELGIUM. Brussels: The Royal Windsor. FRANCE. Paris: The Westminster. ITALY. Aosta (Italian Alps):\nThe Valle d'Aosta. SARDINA. Porto Cervo: The Romazzino. CANARY ISLANDS. Tenerife: The Medano.\n30\npeople talk and that stopped\nshowman: \"Ah, my dear\n\"Dark Cameroon wrapper on\nme from wanting to practice.\"\nArtoooor.\" Hurok insisted on\n(As others remember it, and\ncalling Rubinstein Artur for\nas Rubinstein documents it\npublicity purposes because\na cigar the size of my No. 3.\nin his memoirs, the problem\nbe thought the name had\nwas not so much literature\nmore class than plain Arthur.\nas women, wine and song,\n\"But I always signed my name\ncall that style.\"\nto revise slightly the tradi-\nin Spain as Arturo, in Slavic\ntional recipe for oats-sowing.)\ncountries as Artur, and in\n\"So, here was this little\nAmerica I want to be Arthur.\nfellow Hurok, at that time\nIt's silly to make a fuss and\nputting on low-priced-cort-\nI feel guilty about it, but\n\"Expensive, dark\ncerts here in the Hippodrome.\nI. always preferred that.\"\nMischa Elman, the circus,\nAt the word \"guilty,\" Mrs.\nCameroon wrapper\nhorse shows, Galli-Curci, ev-\nRubinstein looks at her hus-\nis usually\nerything-oh, how It smelled.\nband reproachfully. \"This\nHurok remembered me from\nman, he is ridden with guilt.\ncigar\nreserved for\nChaliapin's and came to see\nHe feels guilty about the\n5 CIGARS\nme. I have Titta Ruffo for\nwars, about being a survivor\nbillboard.\"\nNo. 3\nlarge cigars.\na concert but he is able to\nwhen so many others are\nBut it's on\nsing only a few arias, so\ngone. And he even feels guilty\nwould you play two items\nabout not having played some\nmy No. 3\".\non his program?\" Yes, I would.\ngreat pieces of music.\" Rubin-\nAs it happened, Ruffo was\nstein nodded glumly. \"Yes, I\nnot in voice, but I was in\nwill die with the feeling that\nvoice and the audience made\nthere are at least a hundred\nme give two encores in the\nworks that I might have\n\"This is the\nmiddle of the concert. Hurok\nplayed-the Sixth Sonata of\nactual pack size.\nwas very impressed. He\nProkofiev, for instance, also\nthought my kind of personali-\nthe First and Third concertos\nIt disappears\nCapitán\nty was absolutely right for\nBut, you know I really never\nthe country at that moment\nwanted to play the last sona-\nin your pocket.\"\nand so we made the career\ntas of Beethoven in public. I\ndeTueros.\ntogether, Hurok and\nthink these are private works,\nfor the drawing room. The\nHurok was a shrewd judge\npublic pretends to love them\nTime\nof performing chemistry and\nbut really it gets rather bored.\nit is not hard to see now\nThe slow movement of Op. III\nwhy Rubinstein has enjoyed\nis sublime but in the concert\nsuch a large and fanatically\nhall. unless it is played in an\ndevoted audience. Above all,\nabsolutely sublime way, A\nextre Was UNITED you to wear. 00\nhe pays attention to a work's\nwant to fall asleep.\n\"line,\" its overall meaning\nand design and, as Sir Thomas\nSuch Rubinstein attitudes\nBeecham once reminded an\nas that have always gotten\norchestra, \"That's all the au-\nhim in trouble with people\ndience really cares about.\" Ru-\nwho consider themselves\nbinstein himself remembers\nmore serious than he about\nthat \"even in the days when\nmusic. But while he may be\nThis\nthe critics used to complain\ntemperamentally in tune with\nmost about details, the line\nmuch of the piano literature\nis the\nwas there, It jolly well was\nthat these more somber souls\nthere.\" However, the line\nadmire, he has found much\n\"You'll agree this is what\nactual size\nmust be supported by in-\nof it unsuited to his public\ngood looks ought to taste like.\"\nof a No. 3.\nnumerable nuances of phras-\nneeds. Until recent years, for\ning, accentuation, color chang-\ninstance, he played little Mo-\nThat's why\nes and dynamic gradations\nzart and less Schubert, though\nor it will fail to please dis-\nwhen he got around to record-\nJohn Weitz\nthe man\ncerning listeners and the fact\ning a Schubert sonata, he\nis that musicians have been\nchose the greatest and most\non the go\nRubinstein's most dedicated\nchallenging of them all, the\ngoes for it.\"\nfans throughout his career.\nposthumous B-flat. He isn't\nIt is not given to every planist\nvery good at explaining why\nto please both the finest musi-\nhe favored Brahms or Chopin.\nclans of his time and Sol\n\"I always had the feeling that\nHurok's millions.\nmusic is good to be heard\nTry Capitán cigars. Mild imported filler.\nbut not too much spoken\nabout. That's why I didn't\nCameroon wrapper. Sensible price.\nrs. Rubinstein, a\nM\nwrite so much about music\nA choice of four shapes.\nlively\nblonde\nin my book. I find them pretty\nwoman who is 23\nfunny, actually, those little\nCapitán\nyears younger\nbooks that musicians write\nthan her husband, had joined\nabout how they play.\" He\nthe conversation by this time\ncasts his astonishingly pliable\nand put in, \"We miss him\nface into the caricature of\nThe first cigar styled by\nvery much, Hurok. He was so\na men's fashion designer.\nfunny about that 'Artur' busi-\na philosopher-pedant and pon-\nness.\" Rubinstein nodded and\nderously intones, \"I was read-\nimmediately slipped into his\ning one day more of Schopen-\nSol Hurok impression, rum-\nhauer, and then I played the\nbling in the familiar tone of\nChaconne a little-ah, slow-\nthe Ukrainian immigrant-\nA throwaway joke, deliv-\nBERT PALEY, LTD.\nered with the timing of the\nloved Brahms, can be annoy-\nborn comedian.\ningly Prussian. \"Do you know\nDespite a career-long\nthat Brahms broke off his\nPART OF\naddiction to the music of\nfriendship with a Viennese\nBeethoven, Brahms and Schu-\ndoctor, a great patron of the\nmann, Rubinstein seems to\narts, because that doctor once\nhave grown increasingly dis-\nTHE AFTER SIX\ninvited Massenet to dinner?\nturbed about the nation that\nMassenet had come to Vienna\nFORD\nLIBRARY\nproduced them. He has not\nto produce his opera Werth-\nplayed in public on German\nFAMILY\ner.' Brahms said to his friend,\ny\nsoil since the beginning of\n'How could you tolerate that\nWorld War 1, when he became\ndirt, that so-called music? You\nHow do you recognize a member of the\nGERALD\noutraged at the treatment of\nare no friend of mine. tHe\nAfter Six family?\nthe Belgians by the German\ndidn't even go to the doctor's\nYou can't.\ninvaders. For a while after\nfuneral. I was absolutely furi-\nNot if what you look for is on the surface.\nthe holocaust of World War\nous when I read that. I spat\nII, he even refused to get\nBecause the brands in the After Six family\nblood, because I adore\nout of planes when they\nBrahms. But he was always\nare as different as a tux and a leather jacket.\ntouched down in Germany for\nrude, terribly rude, a vicious\nBut beneath the surface there is a strong\nbrief stopovers.\nfellow, if you like. But what\nsimilarity, a dedication to the old tailoring\nHowever, in 1963, he gave R\ncan you do about it? You know\nverities. You can't have great fashion\nspecial concert in the Nether-\nhow rude he was to Clara\nwithout great fit. And you can't have great\nlands, just across the German\nSchumann at the close of her\nlife? Last year I swallowed\nfit without great sewmanship.\nborder, to which bus-loads of\nhis German admirers were\neight volumes of Max Kal-\nBert Paley reflects that devotion to\nbrought, simply to show that\nbeck's biography of Brahms,\ndetails in the superlative way their leather\nhe clearly distinguishes the\nabsolutely, day by day. He\nwear is handled. You'll find this Bert Paley\npeople of any country from\ntells those stories on\nchamois suede jacket with Roman\nthe fools and scoundrels who\nBrahms.\" Rubinstein talks\nstriped pockets featured at Finchleys, N.Y.;\nrule them. He has faith in\nheatedly, not about some his-\nthem, even now. \"Why should\ntorical figure, but about a\nMarsh's, Huntington, L.I., N.Y.; Morville\nI be cynical? My public\ncontemporary whose life be-\nClothes, Philadelphia; Capper & Capper,\nis individuals, made up of\ncame intertwined, through\nChicago; Al Baskin, Chicago andother\npeople who love music. I hate\nJoachim, with his own.\nfine stores everywhere. OR CALL TOLL\nall the nations in the world\nWe have moved to the din-\nFREE (800) 523-4554.\nbecause can you ever really\ning table by now, and Mrs.\nbelieve one word that their\nRubinstein is revealing to me\nFor an interesting booklet on Bert Paley and the\nother well-known divisions of After Six, Inc., write\nleaders say? Hypocrites! Rus-\none of the possible answers\nto 1290 Avenue of the Americas, N.Y.C. 10019.\nsia, for instance-250 million\nto the mystery of her hus-\nBERT PALEY. LTD/A DIVISION OF SIX, INC. /Amerteen Stock Exchange Symbol: TUX.\nRussians, and 240 million are\nband's physical and mental\nslaves. Revolutions are al-\nresilience-his eating habits.\nways made by decent people,\n\"For many years I have\nbut right away\ncooked for him. I am a profes-\nBecause Rubinstein has\nsional cook, I love it. You\nnever been able to treat music\nknow, this new fat-free\nas one of the abstract scienc-\nFrench cuisine they are talk-\nes, his ideas about composers\ning about, I like it very much\nand their works seem to con-\nbecause I have always done\nflict at times or overlap into\nit. I take off all the grease,\npolitics. Even Brahms, his be-\nall the fats, and at the end\nThose who\nknow London\nknow where\nto find the\nperfect time.\nLOEWS\nCHURCHILL\nWith his impresario: The pianist with the late Sol Hurok, whose\nPORTMAN SQUARE LONDON W1\nshrewd management helped Rubinstein to win great fame.\nFOR RESERVATIONS. SEE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT OR CHECK THE YELLOW PAGES AND CALL LRI ILOEWS RESERVATIONS INC) TOLL FREE IN YOUR AREA\nThe New York Times Magazine/March 11,1976\n35\n\"We Begg\nto\ndiffer.\"\nJohn Begg is an un-\nusual Scotch. A little lighter,\na little smoother. If you\ncan call a Scotch\nJuhm Basa\n\"rich,\" we'll call it\nthat, too.\nJohn Begg\nScotch. 131 years\nof quality.\nWith his audience: Rubinstein acknowledges applause after a Carnegie Hell concert, 1974.\nI put in a little cream here I couldn't see the keys,\" Ru- pieces, including about 40\nand there.\"\nbinstein says. The trouble,\nconcertos.\nThe Rubinsteins laugh a lot,\nwhich has been growing in-\nSomething has been nagging\nIMPORTED\nloudly and with gusto, and\ncreasingly more serious in the\nat my own memory during\nseem to enjoy each other's\nthis discussion and, after leav-\nlast few years and now af-\njokes enormously. \"For 43\ning the Rubinsteins, I go home\nyears, all my married life,\nfects both eyes, seems to date\nand look up my notes from\n1 have cooked that way. He\nfrom a time when Rubinstein\nthat 1972 interview in Buffa-\nis a very easy fellow to feed.\nwas hospitalized by an attack\nlo. I find a few sentences\nGood appetite. He loves chick-\nof shingles. A type of eye\nthat hadn't seemed important\nen, so I have a million ways\nfailure that is not helped by\nenough to include in the ar-\nONE QUART\nto cook it. He could eat it\nglasses, it is caused by a\nticle I wrote then but which\nevery day and not complain.\nhardening of blood vessels in\nnow leap out of the page.\nHe doesn't very much like\nthe eyeball. Rubinstein has\nRubinstein had been good-na-\nred: meat.\" Rubinstein drops\nbeen left with only dim periph-\nturedly defending his flam-\nESTD.\n1845\nhis jaw, hunches over his\neral vision. Moreover, as has\nboyant style of playing. his\nplate and gives his imitation\nbecome increasingly evident\nway of leaning back, gazing\nof your average American\nduring our conversation, the\nat the celling and lifting his\ngourmand tearing at a bloody\nhearing in his right ear is\nhands high off the keyboard.\nJohn Begg\nsteak, complete with cave-\njust about gone.\n\"As you know, I was always\nman growis and digestive\nBut Rubinstein's reservoir\nthe champion of wrong notes,\nsound effects. But then the\nof good humor seems bottom-\nbut I don't care because 1\nwinds of Rubinstein's moods\nless and his élan does not\nneed the impact that I can\nchange again. \"You know,\"\ndesert him even at this dark\nget in this way,\" he had said.\nBlue Cap\nhe says quietly, \"I would like\nturn of events. \"Of course,\n\"I must confess, in fact, that\nto continue writing-but no,\nit is very bad for me, this\nmy dream is to play whole\nBLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY\nit is too late now, I am too\nthing of the eyes, because,\npieces, maybe whole pro-\nold, and my eyes\nnext to music and my family,\ngrams, without looking at the\n100% SCOTCH WHISKIES\nMrs. Rubinstein winces,\nI love books the most. So my\nkeys once.\"\nDistilled and Blended in Scorland\nand the reason quickly\nwife will have to read to me\nThe dream is now reality.\nSHIPPED BY.\nbecomes clear: Rubinstein is\nnow. We are making plans\nPerhaps there will again be\nJohn GLASGOW BEGG LTD\nSCOTLAND\nlosing his sight. \"Shall we\nfor this new kind of life.\na few wrong notes? Perhaps.\nROYAL\ntell?\" Mrs. Rubinstein asks\nNaturally, I regret this very\nBut Rosina Lhevinne, herself\nis\nher husband. He smiles and\nmuch, but what can you do?\none of the famous pianists\nshrugs. \"Why not, after all,\"\nI am getting old and these\nand teachers of her time, long\nshe goes on, \"when it is really\nthings happen to one at this\nago had the last word on\nmore wonderful that you play\ntime. I still will enjoy every\nthat. To a student who men-\nwithout\nAnd so the sus-\nday, and keep on playing if 1\ntioned Rubinstein's occasional\npected but still startling facts\ncan.\" Fortunately, he has a\nwrong notes, Lhevinne re-\ncome out.\nphotographic memory in\nsponded dreamily, \"Ah, yes,\n86 Proof, Imported by and bottled in U.S. for James M, McCunn & Co., N.Y.\n\"For the last six concerts\nwhich is stored hundreds of\nbut what wrong notes.\"\n20\n38\nC\nT\nOF\ntl\nm\nin\nall\nag\nesd\nlon\none\nobli\ntudi\nmar\nvice\ningn\ntor\nstate\nto re\n30\nfault.\nan\nOri\nmittec\nBudge\nearor\nfuture\nrowing\nstate\nposed\nTARD\nUnited Press International\nclusive\nanier\nArthur Rubinstein by a bust of himself that was unveiled at Carnegie Hall yesterday\nThe\n\",VII\nnight\n,I&W\nber pa\n2:11\nas bi\nNotes on People\nresen\nSena\nthe\nagrees\nal-\ne\nRubinstein's Bustin Carnegie\npr\nof\nSeventy years after he\nMr. Ozawa, who will con-\nhead of the teamsters' union\nat\nmade his American debut in\ntinue as director of the Bos\nhas been missing since July\nCarnegie Hall, Arthur Rubin-\nton Symphony, reached on\n30 and is believed dead, but\npa\nstein unveiled a bust of him-\ntour in Hanover, Germany,\nthe suit does not seek certi-\nW\nself there yesterday. The 89-\nfication of his death. In ad-\nin\nsaid, he was \"happy about\nyear-old pianist, scheduled to\nmy orchestra's very good\ndition to normal duties as\nre\nplay a recital there Monday,\nfeeling about Maestro de\nadministrator, according to\nwas described by Isaac Stern,\nWaart and wish him and my\nher petition, Mrs. Hoffa\nfo\nthe violinist and president of\nmusicians a big success and\nneeds \"to commence certain\nlid\nCarnegie Hall, as \"the per-\na happy time making music\nlitigation in order to defend\nS6\nson who has contributed\nvaluable property interests\nin\ntogether.\"\nmore than anyone else to this\nof the estate which are now\nS\nhouse.\" A spokesman said\nAdela Holzer, a Broadway\nbeing challenged.\"\nMr. Rubinstein had played\nproducer for the last eight\nthere \"at least once a year\"\nyears, said yesterday she was\nThe 23-year-old son of\nsince his first appearance.\nquitting show business be-\nSenator James S. Abourezk,\nThe pianist said he loved the\ncause she was unable to get\nthe South Dakota Democrat,\nbust, sculpted by Nathan\n\"the necessary artistic help.\"\nconfirmed yesterday that he\nRapaport, \"because it doesn't\nShe will close \"Me Jack, You\nhad received food stamps but\nlook like me but the way\nJill\" Sunday, after 16 preview\ncalled press reports about the\nI should look.\"\nperformances, in the after-\nmatter \"cheap sensaiona\nmath of her dismissal of the\nism.\" The Washington Po\nHorold\nT\nsaid Wednesdav that Char\nRubenetein\nTHE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\nAwards this\nPresidential Medal of Freedom\nWith Distinction\n917 GERALD R. FORD\nto\nARTHUR RUBINSTEIN\nMusician, gentleman, and bon vivant, Arthur Rubinstein has\nshared his singular and deeply personal mastery of the piano\nthroughout the world. For over seven decades, his ceaseless\nvitality, his luminous spirit and his profound depth of mind have\nbrought a fresh sparkle to the lives of people everywhere. His\naudiences love him; his colleagues and friends revere him; and\nhis country, the United States of America, is proud to proclaim him\nas a giant among artists and men.\nThere is no scenario because they won't know until 10:00 if\nor not Rubenstein will play the piano.\n12:10 The President will come upstairs to get Mrs. Ford\n12:15 The President and Mrs. Ford will join Mr. and Mrs. Rubenstein\nand children in the Red Room\n12:20 Rubenstein children proceed four principals entering\nEast Room (Mrs. Ford will sit on the platform with\nthe Rubensteins.\nPresident Speaks and presents medal\nGERALD R. FORD\nRubenstein Speaks\nRubenstein May play piano\n12:50 If he plays there will be brief mingling (5 min. with\nthe principals and guests)\nThere will be a receiving line in the hall after seremony\n1:20 President goes up to the luncheon which is in the Yellow\nOver Room\n2:20 Luncheon ends\n3:15 pm PSA Taping\nNOT FOR RELEASE\nGuest list for the reception to be given by the President and Mrs. Ford on\nthe occasion of the Presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to\nArthur Rubinstein on Thursday, April 1, 1976 at twelve o'clock\nMr. and Mrs. Arthur Rubinstein\nMiss Alina Rubinstein\nDaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rubinstein\nMiss Eva Rubinstein\nDaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rubinstein\nMr. and Mrs. John Rubinstein\nSon and daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rubinstein\nHis Excellency The Ambassador of Austria\nand Mrs. Halusa\nHis Excellency The Ambassador of Belgium\nand Mrs. Van Cauwenberg\nHis Excellency The British Ambassador\nand Lady Ramsbotham\nHis Excellency The Ambassador of Chile\nand Mrs. Trucco\nMrs. Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet\nWife of the Ambassador of France\nThe Honorable Niels Hansen\nCharge d'affaires, Embassy of the Federal\nRepublic of Germany\nHis Excellency Simcha Dinitz\nAmbassador of Israel\nMrs. Roberto Gaja\nWife of the Ambassador of Italy\nThe Honorable Emile Tydeman and Mrs. Tydeman\nCharge d'affaires, Embassy of the Netherlands\nHis Excellency The Ambassador of the Polish People's Republic\nand Mrs. Trampczynski\nHis Excellency The Ambassador of Portugal\nand Mrs. Themido\nDr. Gheorghe Ionita\nCounselor, Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Romania\nHis Excellency The Ambassador of Spain\nand Mrs. Alba\nHis Excellency The Ambassador of Sweden\nand Mrs. Wachtmeister\nFORD of GERALD LIBRARY\nMrs. Dean Acheson, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Joe Allbritton\nPublisher, The Washington Star\nMr. and Mrs. Philip Werner Amram, Washington, D. C.\n- 2 - 4/1/76\nMr. Walter Anderson\nMusic program director, National Endowment for the Arts\nMr. and Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Percy Aycock, McLean, Virginia\nCampbell Music Company, Inc.\nMrs. Robert Low Bacon, Washington, D. C.\nMrs. Philip Barry, Washington, D. C.\nThe Honorable Jacob D. Beam and Mrs. Beam, Washington, D. C.\nCaptain Peter Belin, USN, retired, and Mrs. Belin, Washington, D. C.\nMr. Samuel Ellison Belk III, Washington, D. C.\nMrs. Luis Bolin, Washington, D. C.\nThe Honorable Daniel J. Boorstin and Mrs. Boorstin\nLibrarian of Congress\nDonna Julia Brambilla, Washington, D. C.\nThe Honorable Philip W. Buchen and Mrs. Buchen\nCounsel to the President\nThe Honorable Ellsworth Bunker and Mrs. Bunker\nAmbassador at Large; Mrs--The Honorable Carol C. Laise,\nDirector General of the Foreign Service\nThe Honorable W. Randolph Burgess, Washington, D. C.\nMr. Paul Callaway, Washington, D. C.\nMrs. Harvey L. Cliburn, Shreveport, Louisiana\nMother of Mr. Van Cliburn\nMr. Van Cliburn, Shreveport, Louisiana\nConcert pianist\nThe Honorable Michael Collins and Mrs. Collins\nDirector, National Air and Space Museum\nMr. William M. Cook, Washington, D. C.\nMrs. Oscar S. Cox, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Cox, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Martin Feinstein\nExecutive Director of Performing Arts, JFK Center for the\nPerforming Arts\nDEPART\nFORD\nMr. and Mrs. Edward T. Folliard, Washington, D. C.\nMedal of Freedom recipient 1970\nLIBRARY\nThe Honorable Leonard Garment, Washington, D. C.\nMr. George Gelles, Washington, D. C.\nThe Washington Star\nMr. and Mrs. Vladimir Gelvans, Forest Hills, New York\nMr--American Ballet Theater\nMr. and Mrs. Kenneth Glancy, New York, New York\nPresident RCA/Victor Records\nMrs. Philip L. Graham, Washington, D. C.\nPublisher, The Washington Post\nMiss Judy Gruber, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Roger Hall, New York, New York\nChairman, Hurok Concerts, Inc.\n- 3 - 4/1/76\nThe Honorable Bryce N. Harlow, Arlington, Virginia\nMr. John K. Havemeyer, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. J. Patrick Hayes\nPresident, Washington Performing Arts Society\nDr. Richard Hubbard Howland, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. William Hunter, Bethesda, Maryland\nMrs--President, Opera Society of Washington\nThe Honorable Jacob K. Javits, U. S. Senate, and Mrs. Javits\n(New York)\nMr. George Lasocki, Washington, D. C.\nMr. George London, Washington, D. C.\nWashington Opera Society\nThe Honorable Clark MacGregor and Mrs. MacGregor, Washington, D. C.\nMr. Peter Malatesta, McLean, Virginia\nThe Honorable Charles McC. Mathias, U. S. Senate, and Mrs. Mathias\n(Maryland)\nThe Honorable Joseph M. McDade, House of Representatives,\nand Mrs. McDade (Pennsylvania)\nMr. and Mrs. Norman Nadel, New York, New York\nScripps Howard Newspapers\nMr. and Mrs. Garrison Norton, Washington, D. C.\nMrs. Virginia Page, Washington, D. C.\nThe Honorable Claiborne Pell, U. S. Senate, and Mrs. Pell (Rhode Island)\nMr. and Mrs. Frederick Peterson, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania\nThe Honorable Raymond Price, Washington, D. C.\nMiss Linda Reynolds, Washington, D. C.\nThe Honorable John J. Richardson, Jr. and Mrs. Richardson\nAssistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs\nDr. and Mrs. S. Dillon Ripley II\nSecretary, Smithsonian Institution\nMr. and Mrs. Donald Sanders, Washington, D. C.\nAssociated Press\nMiss Lisa Sergio, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Thomas Z. Shepard, New York, New York\nDivision Vice President, RCA Red Seal\nMrs. Jouett Shouse, Washington, D. C.\nMrs. John Farr Simmons, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Hobart A. Spalding, Washington, D. C.\nFORD & Lib, GERALD\nMr. John Steinway, Long Island City, New York\nPresident, Steinway Piano Company\nThe Honorable Roger L. Stevens and Mrs. Stevens, Washington, D. C.\nChairman, JFK Center for the Performing Arts\nMr. Justice Stewart\nAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court\nMr. and Mrs. Michael Straight, Bethesda, Maryland\nDeputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts\n- 4 - 4/1/76\nMr. John S. Thacher, Washington, D. C.\nThe Honorable William Royall Tyler, Washington, D. C.\nThe Honorable Jack J. Valenti and Mrs. Valenti\nPresident, Motion Picture Association\nDr. Charles H. Watts, Jr., Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Max Wilcox, New York, New York\nRecording producer\nThe Honorable Stanley Woodward and Mrs. Woodward, Washington, D. C.\nMr. Walter Zachariasiewicz, Chevy Chase, Maryland\nAmerican Council of Polish Cultural Clubs\nGERALD R. FORD LIBRARY\n- 5 - 4/1/76\nWhite House staff\nWilliam Baroody\nJames Cannon\nFoster Chanock\nJames Connor\nEleanor Connors\nEva Daughtrey\nJohn Dunn\nMichael Duval\nRoland Elliott\nMax Friedersdorf\nDavid Gergen\nRobert Hartmann\nTo hear from:\nEliska Hasek\nJerry Jones\nJames Cavanaugh\nBobbie Kilberg\nRobert Goldwin\nMildred Leonard\nBurt Malkiel\nJames Lynn\nJohn Marsh\nTheodore Marrs\nWilliam Seidman\nSarah Massengale\nRobert McFarlane\nMilt Mitler\nJackie Mooneyhan\nRonald Nessen\nWilliam Nicholson\nRobert Orben\nRichard Parsons\nSusan Porter\nEric Rosenberger\nTeresa Rosenberger\nEdward Schmults\nBrent Scowcroft\nWilliam Selovar\nJames Shuman\nPat Taylor\nMr. & Mrs. Wayne Vallis\nGERALD R. FORD LIBRARY\nMargita White\nKathie Wooten\n- 6 - 4/1/76\nTo hear from:\nThe Honorable Henry A. Kissinger\nSecretary of State\nThe Honorable David K. E. Bruce and Mrs. Bruce\nMedal of Freedom recipient 1976\nMr. and Mrs. Antal Dorati\nMusical director, National Symphony Orchestra\nMiss Kay Murphy Halle, Washington, D. C.\nMiss Carol V. Harford, Arlington, Virginia\nMr. and Mrs. John H. Kauffmann, Washington, D. C.\n(former Publisher of The Washington Star)\nMrs. Charles MacArthur (Helen Hayes)\nThe Honorable Charles H. Percy, U. S. Senate, and Mrs. Percy\n(Illinois)\nMr. and Mrs. Andre Previn\nLondon Symphony Orchestra\nThe Honorable H. Chapman Rose and Mrs. Rose, Washington, D. C.\nFORD de GERALD LIBRARY\nLUNCHEON - April 1, 1976\nMrs. Robert Low Bacon\nMr. William M. Cook\nMr. John Rubinstein\nMrs. Arthur Rubinstein\nMRS. FORD\nTHE PRESIDENT\nMr. Arthur Rubinstein\nMiss Eva Rubinstein\nMiss Alina Rubinstein\nMrs. John Rubinstein\nThe Secretary of State\nFORD & LIBRARY GERATO\nENTRANCE\nyellow Ovah\nRoom - -\nMiss Alina Rubinstein -- 26 years old, medical student, Columbia University\nMiss Eva Rubinstein -- 38 years old, professional photographer - Eva was\nmarried to Rev. William Coffin of Yale Divinity School but has been divorced\nfrom him for 10 years - assumed maiden name.\nJohn Rubinstein -- 30 years old - has had a lead role in \"Pippin.\"\nMrs. John Rubinstein -- wife of son.\nMrs. Robert Low Bacon -- grande dame - Washington society - - Rubinsteins'\nare house guests of Mrs. Bacon.\nWilliam Cook -- Stock Broker, Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith -\nlong time friend of the Rubinsteins - has acted as liaison for this event.\nGERALD R FORD TIBRANA\n(Gergen)\nMarch 31, 1976\nBrief Background Notes on Arthur Rubinstein\nArthur Rubinstein was born 89 years ago in Lodz, Poland,\nthe seventh child in his family. His father owned a hand-loom\nfactory.\nHe was recognized as a prodigy while still a child, and by\nthe time he was eight had given his first concert --- for charity.\nSoon thereafter he began studying under a great Hungarian\nviolinist, Joachim (who was a friend of Brahms).\nAt the age of 16, he made his first appearance in the\nU.S. playing in Philadelphia, in Carnegie Hall, and elsewhere.\nThat was in 1906 -- 70 years ago!\nFor the next 25 years he played in several continents.\nAudiences loved him, especially Spanish-speaking ones, because\nof his great exuberance and zest, but he always fell below his\nrecognized talents. It was said that he paid too much attention\nto women, wine and song -- in that order -- and not very much to\nhis practice.\nHe became much more serious about his music in the 1930s,\nespecially after he married the daughter of a Polish conductor,\nAniela Mlynarski. She has been a great influence upon his life.\nRubinstein really became a great figure upon the American\nscene when, after an absence of 10 years, the impressario\nSol Hurok brought him back here in 1937. He was a smashing\nsuccess and has been returning regularly to the U.S. ever since -\nand his fame has been steadily growing.\nHe has since been decorated by practically every major\ncountry in the world. The U.S., his adopted country, is about\nthe last to recognize him --- a sore point in the art world.\n***\nGreat, good humor and a love of life have always been two\nof the Rubinstein trademarks. He is regarded as a very fine\nconversationalist, interested in almost everything --- including\nforeign affairs.\nGERALD\n***\nOne of the saddest parts of Rubinstein's career for his fans\nis his rapidly growing blindness. On this tour of the U.S., it\nis said that he cannot really see the keyboard. He is limited\nmostly to peripheral vision. His hearing is also impaired in\nhis right ear. (He will be shown a copy of the President's remarks\nprior to the Thursday ceremony so that he will understand what\nhas been said and can respond appropriately.) His music now is\nplayed from memory -- and he can play some 200 pieces by heart.\n***\n(Gergen)\n2\nMarch 31, 1976\nAnother enormous influence upon his life has been the\ntwo world wars. He was personally aware of German brutality\nin Belgium during the WW I, and in WW II, his six brothers and\nsisters disappeared in concentration camps along with six\nmillion other Jews. Since WW I, he has refused to play in\nGermany and for many years he refused even to get off\nairplanes when they stopped there for refueling.\nHe is also a very close friend of the Israelis and has\nbeen highly decorated there.\n***\nRubinstein was living in Paris with his wife and two\nchildren (two more came later) when WW II broke out. He picked\nup his family and moved to the U.S. like so many other European\nrefugee artists (Thomas Mann, Bartok, Schoenberg, Hindemith\nand Stravinsky). Like many of them, he settled in California\n(Beverly Hills) in what for him was his 32nd home.\nIn 1946 he became an American citizen, and it is said\nthat his citizenship papers are his proudest possession.\nSince then, the Rubinsteins have re-established a regular\nhome in Paris, but his children remain here along with many\nof his fans and memories.\n***\nRubinstein enjoys telling of another Polish pianist who\nwent into politics . -- Paderewski.\nR. FORD 1189\nAfter WW I, Paderewski went to Versailles for the Peace\nConference as the Polish premier.\nHe was introduced to Clemenceau, the French premier, and\nClemenceau said, \"Aren't you the famous Paderewski?\"\n\"Yes.\"\n=\n\"The musician, the pianist?\"\n\"Yes.\"\n\"And you are now the Premier of Poland?\"\n\"Yes.\"\n\"Well,\" said Clemenceau, \"what a downfall.\"\n***\nAbroad, his name is spelled Artur Rubinstein -- a Hurok twist.\nHere in the U.S., it's Arthur.\n***\nREMARKS FOR ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN PRESENTATION\nLadies and Gentlemen:\nI want to welcome all of you to the White House this\nafternoon. Many of you have been here from time to time over\nthe years, and as long as Betty and I are here, I hope you\nwill regard it as a \"home away from home.\"\nAs most of you know, the Medal of Freedom is the highest\ncivilian honor that it is within the power of a President of\nthe United States to bestow.\nI feel deeply privileged today to act on behalf of all\nAmericans in presenting that medal to one of the giants of our\ntime.\nThe legend of Arthur Rubinstein has been built upon many\npillars.\nGERMITO R. FORD\nBy the account of critics, he is the greatest master of\nthe piano living today -- a musician as thoroughly familiar with\nChopin and Beethoven as with interpretations of more modern\nSpanish and impressionist pieces.\nIt is difficult for many of us to believe that Arthur\nRubinstein made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall some\n70 years ago.\nHe was a young man then and by his own account, he was\nnot yet the artist that he knew he could be. But in the years\nthat have passed since then --- through his extraordinary\ndedication and through the support of his lovely wife and\nfamily -- who are with us today --- he has turned his vision\nand interpretations into an uncompromising standard of musical\nexcellence.\nYet to millions of fans across the globe, Arthur Rubinstein\nR.\nhas given something more than the joy of music. He has alsgand\nFORD\nLIBRARY\ngiven the joy of life itself. \"I love life unconditionally,\nhe has said, and he has communicated that sheer delight to\ngeneration after generation.\nIt was his late and very fine friend, Sol Hurok, who wrote\nafter first hearing Mr. Rubinstein in 1921: \"The power of his\n3\npersonality and the sense of grandeur and poetry that enveloped\nhis playing filled me with almost unbearable excitement.\"\nThe multitudes who have packed concert halls in Europe,\nin the Soviet Union, in Latin America, and in the United States --\nthey too have felt that \"unbearable excitement\" from this man.\nFinally, I would say this about the Arthur Rubinstein legend.\nHere in the United States we feel a special affection and bond\nwith him because in 1946 -- some 30 years ago -- he chose to\nmake America his home.\nArthur Rubinstein has been decorated and celebrated in\nalmost every land, but it is said that above all else he\nR.\nFORD\nvalues the document that made him an American.\nGERALD\nAll of us who have been touched by his grace and kindness,\nhis love, his generosity and his warmth of humor will always\nbe grateful that he chose to share our citizenship.\nI know that many of you here today have long looked for-\nward to this moment, and I feel proud that on this 200th\nanniversary of our nation, I have the privilege to present this\n4\nmedal to one of our greatest national treasures:\nMr. Arthur Rubinstein.\nAnd now, Mr. Rubinstein, if you will please step forward,\nI will read the citation and present the Medal of Freedom.\nFORD & GERALD LII"
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