Word: cellistic
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...kind of teaser course for the uninitiated, moved on to headier stuff by Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius and William Walton. The orchestra more than lived up to its reputation as one of the world's finest ensembles. Bolstered by such first-rank performers as Composer-Conductor Aaron Copland, Cellist Janos Starker, Violinist Jaime Laredo and Pianist John Ogdon, the festival was off to an impressive start...
...Marlboro Music Festival, where Pianist Rudolf Serkin plays host to 85 musicians from around the world for the best sessions of chamber music on the summer circuit. The concerts, with such as Cellist Pablo Casals, are held in a 630-seat theater at Marlboro...
...suffer agony to see young artists go through the humiliation of a competition," grumbled Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky last week. "The joy of those who succeed is spoiled by the sorrow of those who have been hurt...
...cellist had just returned to the U.S. after serving as a judge at the most grueling music contest in the music world: Moscow's Third International Tchaikovsky Competition. Visibly weary after having heard 42 cellists play virtually the same music scores of times, Piatigorsky complained: "It is the obligation of people of art to find some other way to give people of talent some incentive, but it cannot be useful to discourage a hundred merely to encourage...
...Cellist Gregor Piatagorsky is wrong. Sergei Rachmaninoff [May 13] did take students. One of them was the well-known pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, who describes her lessons with Rachmaninoff in her book Forbidden Childhood. As a teacher, he was apparently a painstaking technician who, after lessons, served his student tea in a glass...