“Arthur Rubinstein was standing in the lobby of a concert hall proudly watching the audience filing in to hear one of his recitals.\u00a0 Finally, when the last one had gone in, Rubinstein made a move to enter.\u00a0 An usher blocked his way.\u00a0 ‘Sold out, mister’, he said, and to reinforce his words he pointed to a sign beside the box office announcing just that.\u00a0 Rubinstein smiled, ‘Sold out, I know,’ he said, and made another move.\u00a0 ‘You don’t understand,’ said the usher. ‘There ain’t no seats left.\u00a0 We can’t seat you.’ And Rubinstein replied: ‘May I be seated at the piano?’<\/p>\n
Cited in Kelly, Henry & Foley, John (1998) Classic FM Musical Anecdotes.\u00a0 <\/em>London: Hodder & Stoughton, p. 98.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Arthur Rubinstein was standing in the lobby of a concert hall proudly watching the audience filing in to hear one of his recitals.\u00a0 Finally, when the last one had gone in, Rubinstein made a move to enter.\u00a0 An usher blocked his way.\u00a0 ‘Sold out, mister’, he said, and to reinforce his words he pointed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1285],"class_list":["post-4925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers","tag-athur-rubinstein"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4926,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/4926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}