Word: cellist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite her obvious talent for the splashy, one could argue that Powell's gift best manifests itself in smaller, brocade-free dramas such as Hilary and Jackie. Powell's mod clothes never overwhelm the tale of the relationship between the impassioned cellist Jacqueline du Pre and her sister, but instead lend a keen visual intensity to the women's profound differences. As Jackie becomes increasingly famous--and depressed--her knits seem to get more blindingly pink and blue; Hilary, meanwhile, recedes into neutrals. The look stays with you--Powell's work, it seems, never fades to black...
...recently been rattled by a controversy set off by two divergent biographies. One is by her sister and brother, Hilary and Piers du Pre: Hilary and Jackie (Ballantine; 350 pages; $12.95), which was originally published in Britain under the title A Genius in the Family. The other is by cellist Elizabeth Wilson, written with the encouragement of Du Pre's widower, Barenboim: Jacqueline du Pre (Arcade; 466 pages; $27.95). The release of a new film, also titled Hilary and Jackie and based on the book by Jacqueline's siblings, promises to take Du Pre's story, and the battle over...
Wilson's biography, by contrast, offers a straightforward, scholarly account of the cellist's life. Barenboim not only urged Wilson, a family friend, to write the book but also shared his papers with her and even read her manuscript before it was published. Drawing on scores of interviews with people who knew Du Pre, Wilson tracks her career and scrupulously reconstructs all her performances. But the author doesn't completely shy away from salacious matters. She mentions the affair and notes that Du Pre also felt abandoned by Barenboim, who cared for her when she was ill but, during...
...film does not quite know what to do with Hilary Du Pre's gift of her husband's sexual services to her sister Jacqueline. Yet that's the big revelation in Hilary and her brother Piers' memoir of life with the dangerously gifted cellist, the scandalous bit that has stuck in everyone's craw...
...said to have one. On the other hand, Hilary apparently wants us to understand that it was not for her a big or terribly traumatic deal. Once she accepted, at a comparatively young age, that as a flutist she could not rival her sibling's gifts as a cellist, she (along with everyone else in the family) became her sister's enabler, patiently enduring her capricious demands and careless indifferences as the inescapable taxes imposed by vast talent on those who feel obliged to serve...