Clara Clemens wrote an article about her father and music for Etude Magazine in the 1920s. I don't have the citation handy, sorry. Paine also had a lot to say about his musical tastes in his biography (besides slave songs, he enjoyed Chopin nocturnes and the sorts of things Clara learned to play when taking lessons with Leschetizky). Twain attended many operas and recitals in Germany when living there in 1897-8. He later enjoyed of lot of what Ossip Gabrilowitsch played at Stormfield and there is a commercial CD of OG's piano playing, including OG's own compositions, if you want to hear somebody playing piano who actually played for Twain. Re: recordings of Twain. Edison visited Stormfield and made the film and made a recording. The film survives because it was distributed with a 1909 film version of P&P; the recording does not survive because of a fire at the Edison plant, ca. 1913. That film (there are two distinct segments, one with his daughters, the other sauntering around the entrance to Stormfield) can be seen as part of the Ken Burns film on Twain. There are several known instances when Twain's voice was recorded and a search of the MT Forum archives will yield those postings (including my own), which pretty much cover what is known on the subject. Re: Twain wearing white suits. I don't recall that it was ever clarified by anyone, but Twain regularly wore white suits in the early 1870s, but like most men of the day, wore them only in the summer. A little digging would probably confirm he wore them in the 1860s. Reporters who interviewed him in the early 1870s repeatedly comment on his dress, mentioning his white summer attire. But his white suits only became news-worthy when Twain began wearing them outside the summer months. I think Twain himself-- or maybe it was Paine-- claims this began when he wore a white suit to the Congressional copyright hearings, but I think it began a little earlier than that. In seeking an answer to this question, do keep in mind that finding a photo of Twain in a white suit in a given year does not really mean much unless you can verify the month in which he was wearing it. Kevin Mac Donnell Austin TX