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...officio manager of Van's, traveled with him constantly, collecting research and protecting him from the constant demands on his time. The two soon found that they had a lot in common: Moor grew up in Texas not far from Van; each had studied piano with a pupil of Arthur Friedheim's, who in turn was a pupil of Liszt's. For this week's cover story, Moor sent TIME'S editors the tapes of the prizewinning Moscow performance, and 60 pages of research on life with Van Cliburn. Meantime, correspondents...
...born Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., in Shreveport, La., an only child, in the eleventh year of his parents' marriage. His father is a minor oil-company executive with a modest income, his mother a talented piano teacher who studied in New York with Liszt's longtime pupil, Arthur Friedheim. She was on the verge of making her debut under her maiden name, Rildia Bee O'Bryan, when her mother intervened and forbade her a concert career...
...teacher, Kitteredge was "alert, brilliant, amusing, through, but always inexorable," according to a pupil. "He made us think," said another. "He taught us to respect the dignity of the scholar," said a third. Indeed, there are many such tributes to his teaching, not the least of which came from Monty Wolley, who studied with him in 1912: "I can think of no one who more inspired me as a teacher, stimulated my mind... or gave me more complete happiness...
...York: "Afternoons I work in the morgue. Mornings I pupil-teach in preparation for a teaching license. The morning teachers are far deader than the afternoon corpses. Evenings I study, periodically falling asleep over a book with the cross-eyed Siamese cat asleep at my thigh. Tomorrow I will eat three big meals and play my cello...
...Easter story. Van Dyck chose to depict the high moment of treachery when Judas kisses Jesus, betraying his identity to the onrushing soldiers and servants of Jerusalem's chief priests and elders. For Van Dyck, who was Peter Paul Rubens' favorite pupil, such a scene of action-packed drama was an ideal subject. He gave it all of his young mastery of whirling shapes, lurid lighting and heightened emotion...