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...romantic, as house proud and as appearance conscious as any of them. They envied his tightly curled hair, his industrial-size dimple, above all, his floor-length furs, sequined suits, neon-color satins and clusters of rings. They delighted, too, in his see-through glass-topped piano, his electric candelabrum that he brightened or dimmed by means of unseen controls, his houses (one decorated with a knockoff of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling), and other evidences of exuberant materialism that he celebrated in a Liberace Museum in, of course, Las Vegas...
...title in 1987 will top this one for mystification and intrigue. Fair enough: its subjects are the oddest achievers in the history of show business. Here is Blind Tom, born to slave parents in 1849. Sightless and retarded, this exemplary idiot savant could play most pieces on the piano, classical or popular, after a single hearing. Here is Harry Kahne, who could write five words on a blackboard simultaneously, holding chalk in his feet, hands and mouth. Here is Matthew Buchinger, who was a marksman, conjurer, artist and musician. Not exactly headline making -- except that Matthew was 29 in. high...
...Scott Wise, a salesman. Two other salesmen, Roger Park and Steve Chamberlain, address their chops to trumpets, in the company of Mark Branson, a high school music teacher, Mark Fessenden, a florist, and Glen Harcus, a racing-car manufacturer. On bass is Dick Burchell, a salesman, and on piano is Dan Stefanko, a music teacher. The vocalist is Dante Lupi, from Astoria, in Queens, N.Y. -- "I went to school with Tony Bennett's cousin" -- the manager < of a condominium project. In all, A String of Pearls...
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER: COLLECTED PIANO WORKS (New World). Denver Oldham plays robust, romantic keyboard music by a neglected American master...
...early '80s, it was clear that this immensely publicized structure was, ; at least in its primary role as a museum, a turkey. It differed from most other architectural turkeys by wearing its entrails outside its skin. Its architects, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, had festooned its four sides with such a tangle of ducts, pipes, risers and shafts that it became the first steel-and-glass building to exclude almost all natural light from its cavernous interior. Since Beaubourg was meant to be (in the jargon of the day) a culturally transparent, non-elitist, participatory, anti-hierarchical, modular omnisensorium...