Arthur Rubinstein: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor

Childe Hassam, Maréchal Niel Roses, 1919, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum

“Childe Hassam posed a young model at a mahogany table with two vases of Maréchal Niel roses, a flower named for Napoléon III’s secretary of war. Hassam believed that people were shaped by their environments, and here the hybrid roses symbolize America’s culture, which he thought had absorbed the best elements of European and Asian history. The two women in the painting, a blonde and a brunette, similarly evoke different “strains” that had blended to create an American hybrid of womanhood.”
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Arthur Rubinstein (piano) playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: I. Allegro con brio with the Concertgebouw Orchestra; BERNARD HAITINK, conductor; Filmed at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 27-31 August 1973.

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READ FREE ONLINE: Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, Weinberg, H. Barbara, with contributions by Elizabeth E. Barker, Elizabeth Block, Elizabeth Broun, Kathleen M. Burnside, Stephanie L. Herdrich, Erica E. Hirshler, Megan Holloway, Susan G. Larkin, Lisa Miller, Kimberly Orcutt, Dana Pilson, and Carol Troyen (2004)

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Childe Hassam at The Art Story