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Du Pre to End Public Career Amid MS Battle
London AP reports cellist Jacqueline Du Pre, 28, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, ending her public career. Her husband, pianist-conductor Daniel Barenboim, is reducing foreign engagements to care for her. Du Pre debuted at 14 in Royal Festival Hall and studied with Casals Tortelier and Roshevovitch. she married Barenboim in Jerusalem in 1967.
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