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...newly arrived resident of Puerto Rico, famed Cellist Pablo Casals, turned 80, looked and talked closer to 40. Spaniard Casals, for the past 17 years a self-exiled dweller in France, explained why he will go on declining invitations to visit the U.S.: "I have a great affection for the U.S., but as a refugee from Franco Spain, I cannot condone America's support of a dictator who sided with America's enemies, Hitler and Mussolini. Franco's power would surely collapse today without American help." The secret of Casals' youthfulness? "The man who works...
String quartet players probably have more fun than any other musicians, for each of them-two fiddlers, a violist and a cellist-is in sole charge of a part that would be played by a whole section in an orchestra. But string-quartet music, limited to small halls, has a reputation as "difficult" listening. It has none of the sensational blare and boom of a symphony, its finely-spun lines are pared to essentials, requiring the listener's intense concentration; also, it lacks a conductor, whose dramatics an audience can follow. Today, the way for a quartet to establish...
Cello Colours (Andre Navarra; Capitol). A varied recital of fine celloing, effective whether in the melancholic atmosphere of Faure's Elegie or the gee-whiz intricacies of Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso. French Cellist Navarra gives the lie to the old saying that cellists are incurable sentimentalists...
Istomin started his musical globetrotting six years ago after appearing at the Bach Festival at Prades. France, under Cellist Pablo Casals. ("Casals stands for everything that is noble and sublime in music.") Since then. Bachelor Istomin has toured six continents, constantly sandwiching practice hours into a controlled chaos of press receptions and cocktail parties. The experience, he thinks, has been artistically maturing...
...nonet: opening canon pretty insecure, but singers got better as they went along, and the motet Ave Verum came off very well. The celebrated "Dissonant" Quartet suffered at the hands of the Cambridge Quartet from raggedness and faulty violin intonation. If only all the players had been up to 'cellist Charles Forbes! The group has done much better in the past. Sarah-Jane Smith the concert's featured soloist, singing four works in four languages. Well-trained and agile voice, but tone tended to be too breathy. Most noteworthy was Ch'io mi scordi te?, one of those demanding "concert...