Piano With Panache.How often do products evoke memories of Liberace? Not often. But one on display this month at Field's Pianos in West Los Angeles
It's one of 24 mother-of-pearl inlaid extravaganzas produced by Steinway to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Gershwin, the composer of "Rhapsody in Blue
For the Farscape episode of the same name, see . Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines ." Following that motif, the piano is crafted in blue-dyed maple veneer and inlaid with more than 400 hand-cut mother-of-pearl stars. Its sheet-music holder is a hand-carved silhouette of the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. skyline. "It's beautiful," said Sheree Baker, the store's assistant manager. "It's brilliant blue, electric blue." |
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