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Name
  
Annabelle Whitestone


Annabelle Whitestone talking to someone while sitting on the chair and wearing a red, black, and white long sleeve blouse and some jewelry


Born
  
1946 (age 75)

George Weidenfeld and Annabelle Whitestone Wedding Jerusalem 14 11 1992


Annabelle Whitestone, Lady Weidenfeld, (born c. 1946) is an English former concert manager working with classical music impresarios including Ingpen & Williams, Ibbs and Tillett, Wilfrid Van Wyck, The English Bach Festival and Conciertos Daniel in Madrid

Annabelle Whitestone laughing while looking at the Polish American classical pianist Artur Rubinstein

The Polish-American pianist Arthur Rubinstein credited Whitestone with assisting the careers of two of his protégés, François-René Duchâble and Janina Fialkowska, as well as introducing him to the chamber music of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven "with all sorts of combinations of string and wind instruments which I never even heard."

Annabelle Whitestone with her arms crossed while wearing a black striped long sleeve blouse, wristwatch, and necklace

In 1977, the 90-year-old Rubinstein left his wife of 45 years for Whitestone and lived with her in Geneva, Switzerland until he died in 1982. Whitestone helped Rubinstein to write the second volume of his autobiography, My Many Years, which he dedicated to her. Rubinstein's original collaborator, Tony Madigan, whom he met in Marbella, transcribed the first phase of the book.

George Weidenfeld drinking wine while Annabelle Whitestone is beside him wearing a white gown during their wedding ceremony

Whitestone convened Remembering Rubinstein, a day of talks and concerts at the Royal Academy of Music 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 White House as he was with his chums Picasso and Charlie Chaplin." Lady Weidenfeld is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Jerusalem Music Centre and the Jerusalem Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society, and a member of the Honorary Advisory Board of the Jewish Music Institute SOAS. Lady Weidenfeld also is the manager of pianist Menahem Pressler.

Annabelle Whitestone was married to British publisher Lord Weidenfeld from 1992 until he died in 2016.

References

Annabelle Whitestone Wikipedia


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