Word: beaux
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...Manhattan, where he is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and SUNY at Stony Brook. During the summer, he performs and teaches at the Marlboro Festival. The son of a scrap-metal dealer from Brooklyn, Cohen studied under Ivan Galamian at Julliard. Before joining the Beaux Arts Trio in 1968, Cohen spent more than ten years with the Julliard String Quartet. He has also appeared as a guest artist with the distinguished Budapest Quartet. In some ways, Cohen is the most jocular of the Beaux Arts, often relieving the tension of rehearsals with a quick quip...
...Spanish Republican cause. After spending some years as a soloist. Greenhouse opted for a somewhat less draining ensemble career. When his friends Menahem Pressler and Daniel Guilet approached him in 1955, he agreed to join them for eight to ten concerts. He has been a part of the Beaux Arts Trio ever since. Greenhouse, age 64, plays a Stradivarius cello, 210 years older than himself. Stradivarius only made 60 celli, and today only 15 are in their original state. Greenhouse is quite protective of his, and he always carries it on board airplanes with him. Due to its size...
...beautifully seasoned wood of Sanders Theater affords a sense of dignity, and of majesty. You sit quiet, at one with the sell-out crowd around you: all are mesmerized, transformed if you will, by the beauty of what they hear. On stage, the Beaux Arts Trio performs the world's greatest chamber music, with a virtuosity attainable only by a very few individual musicians, and by no other piano trio in existence...
Such intimate knowledge, of course, comes only as a result of spending a tremendous amount of time rehearsing and performing together. Indeed, the Beaux Arts Trio has been together for quite awhile: this season marks its 25th anniversary. The group was started in 1955 as sort of an experiment among three friends--Greenhouse. Pressler and violinist Daniel Guilet. That first season proved quite surprising: instead of the anticipated eight or so concerts, they wound up playing 80. Upon Guilet's retirement in 1968, Cohen joined the Beaux Arts after ten years as a violinist for the distinguished Julliard String Quartet...
That the music of the Beaux Arts Trio always sounds original and never tired is a tribute to their endless devotion and energy for in the span of over 4000 concerts, they have played every piece in their repertoire many hundreds of times. Still, the trio rehearses before every concert, always listening for new interpretations, discovering new relationships with the music. "Rehearsals are the only time we ever have a divergence of ideas," says Greenhouse. "Occasionally it may get a little tense, especially when one person really tries to push his ideas on the others." On stage, he explains, there...