Talk:Michael Rabin

Unscholarly article

Hey guys, this page is extremely unscholarly. And it lacks a lot of substance, I'm thinking about doing something with it, but I'd like some help or confirmation. O Violinista 08:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, a musician as significant as Rabin deserves much more, starting with a biography. A-giau 21:19, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Not to mention that his "neurological condition" was probably euphemism for or was the result of barbiturate abuse, and that his fatal fall was the result of being under the influence of barbiturates at the time. This was admitted by Galamian himself.

-- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:26, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

From the All Music biography

Andrė Previn's memoir "No Minor Chords" (Doubleday, 1991, p. 136), presumably incorrectly, says he died by suicide.

According to "All Music": At the end of the 1950s, Rabin suddenly cut short his recording career, for reasons that were never clear. He continued to perform regularly in concerts around the world, and even broadcast recitals made during the 1960s revealed his talents undiminished. There were accounts of his emotional instability, and an unstable personal life -- he had a rough time adjusting to the change from child prodigy to adult virtuoso, though his talent showed no signs of abatement; during the late '60s there were stories of chronic drug use; he also displayed some unusual neuroses, including a fear of falling off the stage, but none of that should have affected his recording career while leaving his concert career intact. In any case, Rabin never entered a recording studio again after 1959, and in 1972, while still in the prime of his life died in a fall when he slipped on a parquet floor and struck his head on a chair. Cunningpal (talk) 13:40, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Two Carnegie Hall debuts?

As it stands, the article includes mention of two Carnegie Hall debuts by Rabin. I'm not sure which one is correct, but they can't both be.