Word: cellistic
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...piece. There were moments of inspired writing, particularly when the 'cello had the melody up high against bitter chords in the upper strings. The slow last movement, however, seemed out of place and style of the other movements. The work received a fine passionate reading from the Quartet, with 'cellist Charles Forbes and violist Frederick Shoup playing with considerable distinction...
...People. No matter what they performed, it would be hard to resist a show that included Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and such vocalists as Marian Anderson, Renata Tebaldi, Zinka Milanov, Risë Stevens, Blanche Thebom, Roberta Peters, Mildred Miller. Jan Peerce, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren. What they performed was aimed at the millions-arias from Pagliacci, The Tales of Hoffmann, Tosca, Carmen, a Chopin Polonaise, a movement from the Mendelssohn violin concerto. It was seen or heard by an estimated 23 million people...
Open & Informed. Cellist Starker has been called one of the greatest ever since he was 14. When he left Hungary after World War II ("I did not like the atmosphere"), other European critics also raved. After he reached the U.S. in 1948, he first landed a job with the Dallas Symphony and soon after with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. U.S. critics discovered his excellence on records (Period). He was the only principal player Conductor Reiner, a fellow Hungarian, took with him when he moved from the Met to the Chicago Symphony three years...
...playing, the accepted standards are lower than with the violin. Basic under standing of the instrument is not developed. Players may know how to go from one place to another, but not why it is difficult to do so, or how to do it better." To improve this situation, Cellist Starker hopes to start a professional school for string players, teaches cello privately, and travels among U.S. community orchestras as string consultant. Meanwhile, he plays solo whenever he gets the chance...
...silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called for. Next day Critic Roger Dettmer wrote in the American that Starker "has grown from an important cellist to an incomparable one," and the rest of the press gave echo...