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...Cellist Jacqueline du Pre was classical music's golden girl. When she performed, her blond tresses flew, her body undulated to the music, and the passion in her playing stirred the hearts of her listeners. Du Pre's marriage in 1967 to the equally charismatic pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim added the glitter of sex and glamour to her already glowing mystique. Then in 1973, at the age of 28, she was forced to retire by the onset of multiple sclerosis. When she died in 1987, admirers, particularly in her native Britain, canonized her as a musical genius and lamented...
...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...
Jennifer G. Lee '01, an accomplished cellist, was inspired to found the chamber music group while working at a music management company this summer...