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Works of Couperin, Strauss, Debussy, and Faure; Marcel Bardon, cellist, and John Cobb, pianist; Holmes Living Room...
Works of lves, Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven. Maxine Warshauer, Pianist, and Sarah Tenney, Percussionist; Kirkland...
...artists like Protégé Vince Cardell, 35. Thirty-two guides have been trained by Liberace, and four gold-jacketed salesgirls staff a baby-blue "gift bazaar," where electric candelabras and Liberace records can be purchased. "There are $1 million worth of goodies in this house," beamed the pianist as he pointed out a Louis XV desk. "But they will give me more pleasure if more people can see them. I'll probably live in one of my Las Vegas homes," he mused, "or maybe the one in Palm Springs...
...Pianist Van Cliburn, 40, who has created some waves in the music world, reached a high-water mark last week. Before leaving his hotel suite for an evening concert in Roanoke, Va., the virtuoso began running water for a bath. While the tub filled, Cliburn went to his piano, started practicing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto, and quickly tuned out the rest of the world. In a dining room below, guests could not hear the maestro's music, but they were soon aware of the bath water that had flooded the pianist's quarters and started seeping across...
...English viola virtuoso; in London. Born in 1876, on the same day as Cellist Pablo Casals, Tertis campaigned successfully to persuade composers to write solo pieces for his chosen instrument. For more than four decades Tertis was Europe's premier violist, playing with such friends as Casals and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, who joined him for a celebrated recital of Brahms' C Minor Piano Quartet during a London blackout in World War II. The Tertis viola, which he designed after his retirement, remains the choice of many leading concert performers...