Word: castelli
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...Christina Castelli...
...Christina Castelli '00 is not your typical young musician. Although she has been playing since the age of three, and is having her first commercial recording released at the age of 21, she exhibits none of the qualities usually associated with the young and the talented. Throughout the interview, she maintainws a refreshing outlook, describing her gratitude to her parents, her love for music, her hatred for competition and her desire to maintain her identity as a person outside of her musical life...
...Unlike the stereotypical stage parents who push their children into performance, Castelli says, her mother and father "always left it up to me. If I wanted to quit the next day, I could, which I think is why I got as far as I did. Because if I had been pushed, I would have resisted...
...CASTELLI'S death is an exclamation point that ends an era. In 1958 I walked into 4 East 77th Street, New York City. A slight man in his 40s was hanging paintings in a 23-ft. by 24-ft. room. This room became the showcase for a number of young, bold American artists. I, a former billboard painter, was one of them. Leo brought an Old World appreciation, but an understanding of the American spirit, to New York City and the world. In the late '50s and '60s, with his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, he discovered Rauschenberg, Johns, Stella, Lichtenstein...
...first movement. There is still plenty of muscular music in the 1905 version we hear tonight, which makes greater demands on the soloist in terms of smoothness and tone. In rehearsal only the first two movements were heard, apparently because of Yannatos' temper, but two were enough to show Castelli at the top of her game. Awesome voicing, awesome dynamic range, and some Heifitzian melodrama suggest a Sibelius not to be missed. For those inclined to adduce parallels, note the resemblance between the second movement of the Sibelius and the refrain of the Gershwin song...