Word: cellistic
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Capitol Records' Los Angeles engineers were used to musicians, including longhairs, who loosened their collars, rolled up their sleeves and lost their tempers, but this recording session was something new. The violinist, pianist and cellist were women, and they would have been longhairs but for the fact that their hair was out of sight. Three sisters, they were also sisters of Los Angeles' congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and they had been performing together since 1931, when the youngest was five, the eldest nine. Their Capitol debut in Schubert's Trio...
Pianist Sister Mary Mark and Violinist Sister Mary Denis entered California's congregation of the Immaculate Heart in 1942, Cellist Sister Mary Anthony three years later. Teachers rather than performers most of the year (the congregation has 43 grammar schools in the West), they fulfill a packed, 16½-hr. daily working schedule during the academic term, with no time for concerts. But last year the trio played a successful 24-concert tour (since their rules forbid them to be out at night or up after 10 p.m., they played most concerts in Catholic schools or colleges where they...
Passion in the Church. The concerts took place in the 17th century Saint-Pierre Church. There, beneath an improbable altarpiece of gilded cherubs and bare-breasted angels, Cellist Casals shuffled in from the vestry on short, hesitant feet, bearing a brown-grained viola da gamba by the pegs. When he motioned the audience to its seats with his bow, his movements were crabbed with age. But when he began to play, the vast, hollow church filled with luminous, lucid sound, suffused with a passion that is the wonder of musicians the world over. Each night the audience paid Casals...
...that the master will ever again make music on such a grand scale in Prades. He no longer has a residence there, nor is he entirely welcome in the hamlet he made famous. This year his landlord jacked up the rent of the cottage he always occupied. And the cellist himself was a little difficult. "If M. Casals met God in the street," remarked a town official, "there is some doubt as to who would take precedence." Offered an apartment in nearby Molitg-les-Bains. Casals will spend part of his summers there with his handsome, 21-year-old bride...
...distinguished of their adopted sons wherever he may be. Casals' former landlord has not yet removed from the walls of the cottage its widely famed label-"El Cant dels Ocells" (in Catalan, The Song of the Birds). It is the name of the popular folk air with which Cellist Casals, playing alone, will end this year's festival just as he ended all the others...