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CARLOS ZAVALA V. Cellist...
...PRADES (July 27-Aug. 9), a small French town near the Spanish border, is notable for the presence of its director, Cellist Pablo Casals. Joining Casals for concerts in the Gothic church...
...hall and Norman churches surrounding this tiny (pop. 3,000) fishing village on the windswept east coast of England. Chief attraction is Townsman Benjamin Britten. Primarily devoted to chamber music, the program will include a cycle of 15th and 20th century English church music, plus a concert by Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, accompanied on the piano by Composer Britten...
...concert, Celibidache demands at least ten. He has been known, for example, to spend six rehearsals perfecting Webern's Variations for Orchestra, a work that lasts less than six minutes. The musicians who have worked under him agree that the result is worth all the painstaking labor. Says Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, recalling a performance at La Scala: "His accompaniment was unforgettable. I played a concerto I had played hundreds of times before, but with Celibidache it seemed like a completely new work. I never understood why a conductor so absolutely marvelous was as little known and as little...
Among the Kirkland House musicians playing at the convocation was cellist Michael A. Flaksman '66, who snapped a string on his first note. Master Taylor commented in expressing his final thanks: "If I were a cello, all my strings would be broken...