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33: 273:"The Quesadas, who had befriended Annabelle and who were eager to please their most celebrated client, assigned her to look after him on his Spanish trips and allowed her to disappear at a moment's notice when he summoned her: she would fly to Paris or elsewhere, whenever he was alone and free for a day or two. "I had a full time job in Madrid, and a very serious one," she said. "We dealt with all the biggest artists— 281:, everybody—and they were very much my responsibility; they would arrive, and I would suddenly say to Ricardo, 'Look, I'm going to Paris the day after tomorrow.' He never made any objection. I don't know what I would have done without the Quesadas as friends." According to Annabelle, the only person besides the Quesadas who knew what was going on was Louis Bender, the trusty 458: 345:"In the last decade of his life, he began a liaison with a young English concert promoter, Annabelle Whitestone (now married to British publisher Sir George Weidenfeld)." 439:
The volume was dictated when the author was at the mature age of ninety-two; transcribed in large part by Tony Madigan, and the latter portion by Annabelle Whitestone.
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I admire my wife's character, her subtlety in responses and reactions, her shrewd sense of reality – shrewder than mine.
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on 22 January 2008, to honour the pianist "who once sold as many records as rock stars and was as much at ease in the
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Tony Madigan, the grandson of Estrella Boissevain, an old friend of the Rubinsteins ...
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from 1992 until he died in 2016. She later began a relationship with pianist
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after 45 years of marriage for Whitestone and lived with her in
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credited Whitestone with assisting the careers of two of his
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employee who looked after Rubinstein on his American tours."
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and was his partner from 2016 until his death in 2023.
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Annabelle Whitestone was married to British publisher
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Index

Lady Weidenfeld

George Weidenfeld
manager
impresarios
Ingpen & Williams
Ibbs and Tillett
Wilfrid Van Wyck
English Bach Festival
Conciertos Daniel
Arthur Rubinstein
protégés
François-René Duchâble
Janina Fialkowska
Nela MĹ‚ynarska
Geneva
Switzerland
Marbella
Royal Academy of Music
White House
Picasso
Charlie Chaplin
Jerusalem Music Centre
advisory board of the Jerusalem Foundation
Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society
Menahem Pressler
Lord Weidenfeld
Menahem Pressler
Harvey Sachs
Grove Press

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