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...concert by The Group for New Music at Harvard will include performances by noted pianist Ursula K. Oppens alongside cellist Bion Y. Tsang '88, who recently presented a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York...
...frankly adventurous than Bartok's, is just as redolent of the Magyar spirit, and these two works display it well. The fiery Duo (1914), full of rich and varied strong sonorities, gets a passionate reading from Phillips, who has a flourishing chamber-music career, and Grossman, a Chicago Symphony cellist. Even better is the brooding Sonata (1915), which employs just about every string-writing trick there is, including left-hand pizzicato and scordatura (nonstandard tuning). As close to technical impossibility as a piece can be and still remain playable, the Sonata is a 20th century masterpiece that deserves...
...Moore begins dating Maude (remember, this is California; first names only), a beautiful cellist played by Amy Irving whom he meets while doing a TV assignment. She quickly gets pregnant. Rob hearing future echoes of Rob, Jr., resolves to divorce Micki and marry Maude. Just as Rob is about to break the news. Micki reveals that she's pregnant and has decided to have the kid. Unable to divorce Micki (he thinks the strain will kill her) and fearful of breaking his engagement with Maude (he thinks her father, a professional wrestler, will kill him). Rob goes through with both...
DIED. Leonard Rose, 66, world-renowned cellist, admired for the technical mastery and elegance of his performances in solo work and chamber groups; of leukemia; in White Plains, N.Y. Rose was a brilliant, dedicated teacher whose students included the virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Harrell and many cellists in America's top symphony orchestras...
...that was before 1969, when she and her husband, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, offered sanctuary to the dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Many Soviet musicians joined in the official chorus denouncing Solzhenitsyn; the couple remained unyielding in his defense. As a result, Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich found that their concert and recording dates had been canceled by the Soviet authorities. After these two celebrated Soviet performers had emigrated to the West in desperation, their names were systematically expunged from the annals of Russian music...