Word: cellistic
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...instant she looked like a puckish milkmaid, the next like Ophelia going mad. The music was Schumann's cello concerto, a rapturous, heart-on-the-sleeve piece that was clearly intended to sear, not soothe, the savage breast. The cellist was Britain's Jacqueline Du Pré, who performed last week in Manhattan with Leonard Bernstein's New York Philharmonic. It was a performance to be seen as much as heard, for Du Pré couldn't sit still a minute...
Oral Types. Some pop psychers believe that particular instruments tend to form particular personalities, even down to physical similarities. The Boston Symphony's Sherman Walt ascribes great significance to the fact that he is tall and skinny like his bassoon. Berlin Philharmonic Cellist Eberhart Finken is convinced that woodwind players speak with the same tones and inflections as their instruments...
...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In his eighth annual Young Performers program, Lenny introduces seven young soloists-two violinists, a cellist, bassoonist, accordionist, oboist and basso...
...Generation couples a sense of values that is curiously compelling. It esteems inventiveness, eloquence, honesty, elegance and good looks-all qualities personified in the Now Generation's closest approximation of a hero, John F. Kennedy. "Heroism and villainy begin with fantasy," says Stephen Kates, 23, a brilliant concert cellist. "This generation has no fantasies...
...offer this Mass to you as a personal gift," said San Juan's Archbishop Luis Aponte Martinez. "What else could I or the church offer you that could be of any value?" In response, two threads of tears appeared on the cheeks of Cellist Pablo Casals, celebrating his 90th birthday. After the service, the maestro returned with his 30-year-old wife Marta and a small group of friends to his seaside villa, where he opened hundreds of gifts and cables from all over the world. Casals' birthday festival in San Juan lasted two days, ending with...