Word: cellistic
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...Cellist Ma awes critics and colleagues alike...
...very small and already quite extraordinary," says Rose, himself a cellist of the first rank. Yo-Yo's technique was impeccable, and then an inner quality, unteachable, began to develop. "When he was about 17," says Rose, "he gave a performance of Schubert's Arpeggione, which is a holy terror for cellists, and it was so gorgeous I was moved to tears...
...flung reaches of the avantgarde. Her first husband was a Japanese musician. The marriage so offended Ono's mother that she never reconciled with her daughter. She worked on concerts for John Cage, became associated with other artists such as La Monte Young and Charlotte Moorman, the topless cellist whose staging of and participation in art "events" came a little later to be called happenings. Ono married again, a conceptual artist named Tony Cox, and they had a daughter, Kyoko. Ono once brought the baby onstage during a concert as "an uncontrollable instrument." Eventually, Cox and Kyoko went...
...everyone can hear what the shouting was about, since Columbia issued Moye's first recording last year with pianist Mary Louise Vetrano as the cellist's gifted partner. Moye offers a program of six works, and the result is utterly breathtaking...
Lastly, Moye pays tribute to our century's greatest cellist by filling out the disk with three short works associated with Casals: the Siloti transcription of the second movement from Bach's organ Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, and Casals' own arrangement of the ever-lovely Faure song "Apres un reve," both of which demonstrate Moye's marvelous legato bowing; and the dashing encore piece Requiebros that was written for and dedicated to Casals by his one-time student Gasparo Cassado...