Word: cellistic
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...sense of ensemble among the players was extraordinary. Vigeland did not conduct (in a hand-waving sense) once through all three movements. The attention given to the continuo part by cellist David Simpson was a pleasure to hear. Far too often the bass line is simply grunted out by bored, inattentive players who can ruin the most stunning effects of soloists...
...Bernstein protege whom Lenny first heard in 1960 and later hired as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Married to a former Tokyo model named Vera, and the father of a baby girl born in December, Ozawa is as hip as can be. At a recent recital by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Ozawa, still sporting his familiar Beatle hairdo, wore a red turtleneck and carried a leather purse on a longish strap. Is Boston ready for this...
...birthday boy appeared on the crowded veranda of his house in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 38-man choir burst into Ralph Vaughan Williams' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Famous Man Pablo Casals, cellist, composer, humanitarian, was celebrating his 95th birthday, surrounded by hordes of friends and mountains of letters, cables and presents from all over the world. The festivities have been going on for several weeks, and are scheduled to last for at least another fortnight; Nonagenarian Casals, with his 35-year-old wife Martita, has been enjoying every minute of them. He was depressed, however...
...phenomenon in the Soviet Union, is one of them. It involves only a relatively tiny number of people, leaving the vast majority of Soviet citizens untouched, but the identity of the protesters is significant. They include not only famed artists like Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich but also scientists such as Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet H-bomb, Physicist Pyotr Kapitsa and Geneticist Zhores Medvedev. A mimeographed bimonthly chronicle of dissident events circulates among thousands, perhaps tens of thousands...
...enough," said Schneider after a few bars, and he was not referring to Carnegie's central heating. That afternoon, they were all downtown at The New School rehearsing chamber music. "Your pizzicato sounds terribly dry," complained Violinist Felix Galimir to a group in one classroom. In another room Cellist Mischa Schneider (Alexander's brother) exhorted, "Sing, sing, sing...