Word: cellistic
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...Only those who have suffered very deeply can totally understand Dmitri Shostakovich's music," said Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich as he paid tribute to his former teacher and friend. "He gave to the world not only a sense of great beauty, but also a feeling for the great difficulties and contradictions of the epoch in which he lived...
...Harvard Summer Chamber Players have augmented their regular series of Monday night concerts with a special one this Saturday night in Paine Hall. Two of the group's professional artists--flutist Paula Robison and Cellist Laurence Lesser--will join the younger artists in performing the famous Nieissen woodwind quintet along with trio sonatas from the baroque period. The concert will be free, and to make the evening complete, refreshments will be served. Paine Hall (music building...
...appearing as the pianist in his own Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello (1954). This piece uses a dissonant, non-tonal vocabulary, articulated in driving rhythms and evocative melodic fragments. The result is an almost Romantic sense of clearly defined broad gestures. Kirchner, along with violinist Donald Weilerstein and cellist Laurence Lesser, responded to these qualities in a lean, rhythmically taut performance that conveyed a sense of urgent, breathless energy...
...engaging dance-like tune. While Kogan showed a sensitive ability to vary his tone and style in response to the shifting demands of the music, flutist Laurel Zucker tended toward shrill, unsupported bursts of sound in the high register in trying to create big dramatic events, and cellist Kevin Plunkett, with gruff attacks and a hard-edged tone seemed unwilling to respond to the lyricism of the writing...
...least found comforting surrogate parents in the U.S. They are Mrs. Saunder and Howard Oilman, board chairman of the Oilman Paper Co. A major patron of music and dance, Oilman has lent Baryshnikov a New York penthouse rent-free. Saunder and Oilman have introduced him to musicians like Cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch and Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Baryshnikov has plunged eagerly into an investigation of American culture. He spends his spare time at plays, operas and especially movies. He is a considerable student of television, whether afternoon cartoons or old movies on the late show (he has worked up imitations of Humphrey...