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NEW YORKA message saying he was saddened to **be boxed in an annchair in tieneva and missing all the fun** was read aloud here recently before 1,200 guests at a Weizmann Institute <if Israel dinner honoring pianist Aithilr Rubinstein.;;
The 9S-ycarH>ld maestro said in the message read aloud by his son, John, that he was not strong enough to travel to New York from his Geneva home, but was'*touchedand overcome** by the assemblage of distinguished people honoring him.
In a TV interview with I^vid Frost screened at the dinner, the pianist said he felt sorry for musicians who spent all their time practicinig and had no time left to enjoy life. .
"1 would rather become a dishwasher,** he said, than be like one of those musicians who have **an incredible technique vbecause they work if out fb the last ndilute.';; ^ sitting at thejriahoprat^&Hng tight hours a day ..: and they have no life-He confessed that there were
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perhaps SO bcautifuf pieces of iin he never performed publidyb^i^^ he had been too bu^ to practice;.
**! never was a greit Woilcer at the piano,** lie saMl^^But what the public liked was that muisib iras in me, it sung in me..;. everything I plaiyed 1 was sii^giiig inside.**
He itcatied' knowing scientist-sutcsman Dr. Qiaim Weizmann, as well as otto great Zionist leaders, among OiemM Nordau and Nadmni Sdkoioy. whoarrailged one of his lint pre-state IsracL It tboic Iplaoe outdoors, in from of tiie King David Hotel in
**I kneiv $okolov from childhood,** said Rvibuistein, ^iiecause he edited a JHebicw paper in Warsaw— — and my fother con-triboied airtides to that paper.**
Rnbinstcin caiiied on his fatherV conumtaeat to Israel and ^s a passiottaie ciiiin^ state and a popoag- supporter of its coltuni life He gave concerts there on tlie avcfnse^c^^^ a year until his reiiieMieiiiiln 1976.
Ahhoqg^ he is now largely-confined Ut bed; the maestro toM Frost, *1 just mw am li^ happiest ycui ia my life. I dOn,\ want to die at alL I love to live. I would be happy even in the hour of my deat|i^;--v-:^,:^:';
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TORONTO - BloaiBVitfa Canada has released a unique Speakers* Directory, entitled speaking of Speakers,** published as a service to lodges and community organizations dirou^out Canada.
Organized and coHoidinated by the national program departnient of B'kiaiB^rith Canada, undet the chair-inanship of Dr. Brian Feldman, the B^ BYith Canada lecture prograni and the <Mrectory.w^ specifically deagne^ to bring neivp^ to §1nai BVith lodges and other coinuiiunity groups ainrdss this counitiy.
The directory irill fodlitate access to approximately 55 lecturers quali-, fKd to speak on sudi topics as the Middle East, sports, crinie, medki, psychiatry, computers, biganiza-tional development, and Jewish humor.
To obtain a copy of the directory, or to book one of the speakers, contact Marda Gilbert, the newly appointed national director of program and membership for Binai B^ Canada, at (416)633^224, or write Binai BVith Canada, 15 Hove Street, Doinisview, Ontario M3H 4Y8.
THREE-COLOR FLORAL WORK b conpkted by Mahi ZBbemian at her studio.
Local artist Mala Zilberman has been notified by the Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto, that her watery color painting Sunflowers has been chosen for showing in^ their 1 lOth annual juried exhibition Image-32.
The show, judged by a group of 20, features 129 works of paintings, prints, sculptures and wall hangings from artists across Canada.
The exhibition takes place Dec. 16 - Jan. 16 at Centeimial gallery, OakviDe, Ontario, and then travels to Stewart-Hall gallery in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Feb. 12 - March 13.
iQlberman, who is also proficient in printmaking and traditional Chtiiese painting, held a one-woman show in March, 1982 at Federation of Canadian Artists gallery, Vancouver.
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