Word: cellist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the startled cellist to the conductor: "Are those your metronome marks in the score?" Replied the conductor adamantly: "Yes." And at that point, reports the Boston Symphony's First Cellist Sammy Mayes, Russia's Dmitry Kabalevsky simply "took off." Composer Kabalevsky was conducting his own cello concerto in Boston, and "he wanted it a lot faster than we usually play it. You start flying around like a young gazelle...
...that one listener cracked: "The triumph of the proletariat on Bald Mountain." Nevertheless, the audience shouted its approval, while the Russians, standing on the stage, applauded the spectators in return. "For Symphony Hall," said the radio announcer in the control booth, "it's a rather wild scene." Said Cellist Mayes: "Musicians are the same the world over; one's as crazy as the other...
...Arturo Toscanini wanted a harpist for the Metropolitan Opera Company, and imported him, says Salzedo, "like a piece of cheese." Salzedo stayed at the Met for four years, then organized the U.S.'s first harp ensemble, later set off to tour Europe with a flutist and a cellist. After a stint in the French army in World War I (wounded in action). Salzedo returned to the U.S. and got to work making the harp something better than one of those "extra" instruments rarely heard outside full-dress philharmonic orchestras...
...Sanders Theatre audience of around 500 people heard three works performed by violinist Sheldon Kurland and 'cellist John Hsu, who are both members of the Cornell University music faculty and of the Cornell University Trio...
...string duo concert will be presented by the Summer School in Sanders Theatre next Monday at 8:30 p.m. Performers will be violinists Sheldon Kurland and 'cellist John...