Word: cellistic
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...cellist played an instrument with only three strings, and Messaien did his best on a piano with several broken keys. Together with a clarinetist and a violinist, heavily clothed against the extreme cold, they performed one of the masterpieces of 20th century chamber music for an audience of soldiers, workers, and farmers, their fellow prisoners of the Third Reich...
...instruments are given music of a dramatically contrasting character: the first violin spins fantastic note flourishes, for example, while the viola sobs a lot. In Quartet No. 3, the first violin and cello are allowed expressive rubato; the second violin and viola are not. Says Michael Rudiakov, cellist of the marvelously together Composers String Quartet: "When you play this music, you jump and hope the parachute opens...
Performers in the competition at Paine Hall last night were violinists Lynn Chang '75 and Robert Portney '75; cellist David Commanday '76; and planist Hao Huang...
...lock his new calculator--an $800 model from Hewlett-Packard that can run a computer program--deep in his trunk, pushing aside neatly arranged tools and a box of his own microphones, still in his car since Yo Yo Ma's last concert. Horowitz tapes many of the cellist's concerts, using equipment he designed and built himself, as he has become good friends with Ma. In college Horowitz played a little cello himself--he was better at building metronomes--and was an early fan of Ma's. When he was looking for music for his wedding, he called...
...best known of the Korean family Chung, Violinist Kyung-Wha, set the standard in 1967, when she shared top honors with Pinchas Zuckerman in the important Leventritt International Competition in New York City. She was 19. In 1971 Cellist Myung-Wha, then 25, took first place in the Geneva International Competition. Last July, Myung-Whun was second-place winner at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, an achievement he quickly followed up with an impressive debut recital in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall two weeks...