Colin/Andrew Davis

[Lawrence Chalmers]

Are they related? Or do they just share the same last name?

[tomono...@hotmail.com]

To my knowledge, "they just share the same last name".

2013年4月25日木曜日 5時33分47秒 UTC+9 Lawrence Chalmers:

[Dontait...@aol.com]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:33:47 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Chalmers wrote:
> Are they related? Or do they just share the same last name?

I know Sir Andrew Davis, and know that they were not related. The last name is indeed all they share(d).

Don Tait

[Ray Hall]

Lawrence Chalmers wrote:
> Are they related? Or do they just share the same last name?
>

Share the last name.

Ray Hall, Taree

[Matthew B. Tepper]

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Since it is one of the most common family names in the English-speaking
world, I should be more surprised if they were related than weren't (and they
aren't).

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[Mark Stratford]

Sir Andrew was asked about this in an interview on Face The Music and
said that no less than Artur Rubinstein had asked him this question,
as the pianist had already worked with Colin D.

Rubinstein apparently sympathised as he had been regularly confused
with Anton Rubinstein who was about 50 years younger.

mark

[Dontait...@aol.com]

Wow...you must know Arthur Rubinstein's great story about this? He loved to tell it and I think it's in his memoirs. So:

Rubinstein showed up in Chicago on his first USA tour circa 1906. He was a very young man. Knew no English. Was to some degree helpless. So he bonded with local people who would help him. In Chicago, one was the pianist and resident overall genius Rudolf Ganz. Ganz took the young Rubinstein under his wing and helped and sheltered him in Chicago, especially about dealing in English. Ganz already spoke it fluently.

So during his Chicago visit ca. 1906 Rubinstein received a note to this effect from a Chicago society matron who, like many of her ilk, hosted home musical soirrees:

Dear Mr. Rubinstein:

We have always loved your music (some Anton Rubinstein works were cited). Your playing, too.

Please come and play at our soirree....

Ganz replied for Arthur Rubinstein (as I recall):

"Dear Madam,

"Thank you for your invitation. As it happens, I am unable to attend.

"I am dead."

"Anton Rubinstein"

So it goes.

Don Tait

[Matthew B. Tepper]

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> On Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:31:27 AM UTC-5, Mark Stratford wrote:
>> Sir Andrew was asked about this in an interview on Face The Music and
>> said that no less than Artur Rubinstein had asked him this question,
>> as the pianist had already worked with Colin D.
>>
>> Rubinstein apparently sympathised as he had been regularly confused
>> with Anton Rubinstein who was about 50 years younger.
>

> Wow...you must know Arthur Rubinstein's great story about this? He
> loved to tell it and I think it's in his memoirs. So:
>
> Rubinstein showed up in Chicago on his first USA tour circa 1906. He was
> a very young man. Knew no English. Was to some degree helpless. So he
> bonded with local people who would help him. In Chicago, one was the
> pianist and resident overall genius Rudolf Ganz. Ganz took the young
> Rubinstein under his wing and helped and sheltered him in Chicago,
> especially about dealing in English. Ganz already spoke it fluently.
>
> So during his Chicago visit ca. 1906 Rubinstein received a note to this
> effect from a Chicago society matron who, like many of her ilk, hosted
> home musical soirrees:
>
> Dear Mr. Rubinstein:
>
> We have always loved your music (some Anton Rubinstein works were cited).
> Your playing, too.
>
> Please come and play at our soirree....
>
> Ganz replied for Arthur Rubinstein (as I recall):
>
> "Dear Madam,
>
> "Thank you for your invitation. As it happens, I am unable to attend.
>
> "I am dead."
>
> "Anton Rubinstein"
>
> So it goes.

*chuckle* It's been a while since I read Rubinstein's memoirs, but my
recent acquisition of both volumes in hardcover might change that soon.
(And for good measure, Harvey Sach's biography of him.)

[Gerard]

Terry <bo...@clown.invalid> typed:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:33:47 +1000, Lawrence Chalmers wrote
> (in article <7456-517...@storefull-3173.bay.webtv.net>):

>
> > Are they related? Or do they just share the same last name?
> >
>

> They share a surname with composer Carl Davis.

I thought with Miles Davis.

[jrsnfld]

On Apr 24, 1:33 pm, law...@webtv.net (Lawrence Chalmers) wrote:
> Are they related?  Or do they just share the same last name?

Funny thing about surnames. One can puzzle over whether or not Andrew
and Colin Davis are related, but forget that Colin Davis indeed is
very much related to Joseph Wolfe.

--Jeff