Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
1 image. Pianist greeted by wife and two children on arrival at the Los Angeles International Airport, 16 December 1951. Arthur Rubinstein Mrs. Nela Rubinstein John Arthur Rubinstein, 5 Alina Rubinstein, 7. Supplementary material reads: "Caswell hout. Rubinstein. Pianist Arthur Rubinstein, who flew half-way around the world to be home with his family here for the holidays, yesterday arrived by air from Israel where he played 20 concerts in 19 days. Greeting Rubinstein at Los Angeles International Airpprt were his wife, Nela, and two of his four children, Alina, 7, and John, 5. The concert pianist's tour which ended in Israel included about 20 other concerts in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland and Italy during the last 3 months. He traveled more than 25,000 miles and played before 125,000 people. Rubinstein will have 10 days with his family at their Brentwood home before he is off on another tour of the United States".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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