Word: cellistic
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...Black child of eight, Moye immediately showed an aptitude for the cello, and his subsequent training was largely financed by the Epstein Memorial Foundation. In the early seventies, the U.S. State Department chose young Moye to tour the Caribbean, South America, and Africa (he is the only Black cellist ever to perform in South Africa, where he insisted on nonsegregated audiences...
...several decades the best-known Black cellist, however, has been Kermit Moore (b. 1929), an active concertizer throughout the country as well as in Europe, Africa and the Far East. His recent recording contains the New England Suite by Vally Weigl (b. 1894), widow of the composer Karl Weigl. Moore collaborates here with clarinettist Stanley Drucker and pianist Ilse Sass in a work of modest charm, consisting of "Vermont Nocturne," "Maine Interlude," "Berkshire Pastorale," and "Connecticut Country Fair" (better luck next time, Rhode Island). Moore plays almost perfectly, though the work makes no inordinate demands on its performers...
...moved, it is mostly to outrage. "Schuller is a fantastic composer and musician," says Irving Bush, trumpeter with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, "but he is an absolutely atrocious conductor. When someone can't conduct at all, of course the musicians are going to be bored." Frank Miller, principal cellist of the Chicago Symphony, defends unionization by recalling the way things were before the union had clout: "Every year, 30 or 40 people were fired for such things as inattentiveness to a particular note." Some musicians concede, however, that the modern union contract, which often guarantees 52 weeks of employment...
Pressler looks over at Violinist Isadore Cohen and Cellist Bernard Green- house, who nod and chuckle. The three men, otherwise known as the Beaux Arts Trio, are reminiscing about their precarious years on tour. It is something they do with almost the same warmth and brio as when they make music together...
Rumors that the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) was planning to make a European tour later this year apparently led many members of the BSO to quit and switch over to the HRO, Royce W. Miller II '82, a BSO cellist, said yesterday before the meeting...