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Rubin s tein Piano Competition Ineorporates:Work-._ofsraeJi•
By MARGUERITE K.
binstein were special high-
lights in Israel's music life!
He came almost every year
to a "Rubinstein festival"
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A year ago, the 89-year-
old master played the first
piano concerto by Brahms
with the IPO under Zubin
Mehta with youthful elan
and the necessary physical
strength. At that time he re-
ceived the title Doctor Hon-
oris Causa from the Weiz-
mann Institute.
Last April Rubinstein
came again to Israel to
head a jury of 14 piano vir-
tuosos and teachers from 10
countries, who took part in
a piano competition.
Years ago it was sugges-
ted to him to create a com-
petition in his name; he
first refused, but later he
agreed with one stipulation:
"we don't need pianists, but
artists!" "The Arthur Ru-
binstein International Piano
Master Competition" was
created. Most of the com-
petitors have won at other
competitions or were at
least recommended by
world renowned authorities.
For the competition in
April, 38 candidates from 19
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countries were ,accepted.
However, only 19 came; the
withdrawals were undoubt-
edly due to the enormous
demands in the repertoire,
which each competitor had
to play. Seventeen piano
concertos had to be pre-
pared and 14 had to be per-
formed by heart on a short
notice. All the participants
had to play an obligatory
work by the Israeli compos-
er Shulamith Ran. This
composition called "Hyper-
bole" was printed and sent
out to each candidate three
months prior to the com-
petition. It was heard by
the jury 21 times!
Barn in Tel Aviv in 1947,
Ms. Ran gave concerts at
age 11, at 16 she played her
own "Capriccio" with the
New- York Philharmonic Or-
chestra under Leonard
BernStein.
Yehuda Cohen of Israel,
who writes for the presti-
gious "Frankfurter Allge-
meine Zeitung" attended
the competition and dis-.
cussed the prospective
prize winners, with Ms.
Rana They agreed that the
German pianist Gerhard Op-
pitz, would be the best
choice for the first prize!
Craig Sheppard of the U.S.
was also outstanding, but
came in eighth place.
Rubinstein gave two of
his own awards to pianists,
who excelled in a special
performance of a single
work. Sheppard got one of
these prizes; the other went
to Yitkin Seow of Sing-
apore. For the third and
final round the competition
moved to the Frederick
Mann auditorium, where
the three candidates played
with the IPO under Eliahu
Inbal. Oppitz won the first
prize; Diana Kacso of Bra-
zil the second and Etsuko
Terada. of Japan received
the third one.
At the final concert in Je-
' rusalem, which the presi-
dent of the state of Israel
and Golda Meir as presi-
dent of the honorary com-
mittee attended, Rubinstein
presented the awards and
praised the recipients. -After-
wards Teddy Kollek, the
mayor of Jerusalem, pre-
sented a scroll to Rubins-
tein, that named him "an
honorary citizen of Jerusa-
lem."
Jewish Congress
Elects Officers
NEW YORK — At a meet-
ing of the plenary council
of the American Section of
the World Jewish Congress,
held May 11 in New York,
the following officers were
elected:
Rose L. Halprin, Rabbi
Joseph Karasick, Dr. Joa-
chim Prinz, past chairmen;
Jacques Torczyner, immedi-
ate past chairman; Jacob
Katzman, chairman.
Also, Samuel L. Brenng-
lass,. Rabbi Ira Eisenstein,
Bernard Harkavy, Judge Jo-
seph Lerner, Norma Levitt,
Herman Z. Quittman,
Rabbi Arthur Schneider,
vice chairmen; Will Mas-
low. ' chairman, executive
committee; Beatrice Fel-,
dman, secretary; Earl
Morse. Rabbi Zvi Zakheim,
co-treasurers.
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JERUSALEM—Prof.
Mosjie Davis, Stephen S.
Wise Professor in American
Jewish History and In-
stitutions at the Hebrew
University, was selected as
the recipient of the Lee
Max Friedman Award of
Fridly, May 20, 1977
HittOri Awrd
the American Jewish Histor-
ical Society. He received
•the award marking his con-
tribution to the field of
, American Jewish history at
;the society's annual -meet-
ing in Albany, New York.
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