For anyone who hasn’t discovered this yet, especially you historian types, Google hosts millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive.

Hours of my life have been lost to this. A few favorite musical finds below & after the jump.

Pablo Casals teaching a cello lesson:


Maria Callas following a production of Norma:

Artur Rubinstein performing with the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra under George Szell:

Liberace and his piano-shaped pool: