Word: virtuoso
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...When the widow of Italian Virtuoso Ferruccio Busoni heard one of his Welte rolls being played some months after his death, the effect was so intense that she ran from the music salon screaming "Ferruccio! Ferruccio...
...museum for cinema and TV is going up not far away. Both are part of Los Angeles' current cultural expansion, of which the biggest monument is the $24 million music center being built, half by municipal funds, half by private contributions collected ?in one of the great virtuoso performances of U.S. fund raising?by Dorothy Buffum Chandler, wife of Newspaper Publisher Norman Chandler (the Times-Mirror...
Knowledge and Disappearance is a virtuoso performance, with the lavender turning cool next to the red. Moreover, the pattern of alternating rectangles within rectangles has its own life. It recedes and then begins to emerge again as a pattern of simple rectangles. Anuszkiewicz' colored geometry becomes a kind of crazy-quilt corridor into which the eye is drawn and held dizzily as in some enchanted funhouse...
...talking about Cleo-she was talking about Mrs. Norman ("Buff") Chandler, 61, wife of the president of the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co. To raise money for her pet project, a new L.A. Music Center, Buff peddled premiere tickets at $250 apiece, raised $1,094,403, bringing her virtuoso fund-raising performance to a queenly total of some $15 million...
...INSTRUMENTALISTS. Of the 1,213 instrumental soloists Schwann lists, most are pianists (452), but curiosity seekers may dig out the name of Bruno Hoffman-the one and only glass harmonica virtuoso. Along with lonely exponents of the virginal, the psaltery and the oboe d'amore, there are 166 violinists, 88 organists, 73 harpsichordists, 64 flautists and 56 cellists listed, each count a statistical gain over 1960. Walter Gieseking and Sviatoslav Richter are the leading pianists, with 46 recordings each; Richter had only 19 three years ago, and, having made the biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being...