Word: cellistic
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...name implies, is not really a conventional TV show at all, but a half-hour recital filmed as a concert hall audience sees & hears it, without comment, commercials or trick camera work. Following Pianist Gyorgy Sandor, the first soloist: Baritone William Warfield, Cellist Leonard Rose...
...this warm music. Clarinetist Aaron Johnson, '49, turned in a fine performance. His intonation was consistently good, and he was not at all bothered by the many big skips, including the double octaves. The rest of the ensemble, violinists Barbara Sorenson and Earl Ravenal, violist Vernon Head, and cellist Joan Brockway provided an unobtrusive accompaniment. Their tone, although a little thin, improved as the piece progressed...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Cellist Leonard Rose...
When Gregor Piatigorsky put away his cello for a long rest 15 months ago, he was the best cellist in the U.S.* Back in Carnegie Hall last week for the first time since his sabbatical, a slightly greyer "Grischa" Piatigorsky proved that there is still no one around who can touch...
Fifteen months ago, Piatigorsky was fed up with the hotel, train and plane life of the touring virtuoso. It occurred to him that he had not taken a real vacation since the age of eight, when he got his first job as a cellist. At 46, he wrote his manager: "I have carried my big cello from city to city. I have never refused an interview, even to a school paper. I have seen everybody after a performance who wanted to see me. For a while, I can stop...