Word: cello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beethoven: "Eyeglass" Duet for Viola and Cello (Joseph de Pasquale and Samuel Mayes; Boston). One of the most recently discovered Beethoven treasures (first published in 1912 ), this one is puckishly scored "with two eyeglasses obbligato." Scholars are still puzzling over what this notation means; Beethoven may have simply wanted to say: "Take a close look at the notes, boys, and play it right." Boston Symphony First Deskmen de Pasquale and Mayes play it so right and so resonantly that it sometimes sounds like a full quartet...
...effective show was straight from real life: an interview with Pablo Casals, the world's greatest cellist. In Prades, France, where Casals has lived in self-imposed exile from Franco Spain since the end of the civil war, the 78-year-old artist played two selections on the cello for another in NBC's Wise Men series. The fascinating part of the film, produced by Robert Graff, was the man rather than the musician. Out of the conversation, Casals' personality rose cleanly, buttressed by the serenity of a man who lives by his convictions...
...Queen. This year the program was Bach, Schubert and Brahms, and everyone agreed as usual, that the master was at the peak of his power and form. In the L' Eglise Saint-Pierre, on a platform before the altar, the old man sat playing his "tired" old cello with closed eyes. Every seat in the church was taken for the extra-long (2½ to three hours) concerts that are a Prades tradition, and listeners sat or stood wherever they could find breathing space. Front-row center sat Belgium's Queen Elisabeth, noted and knowledgeable patroness of music...
...upshoot for Yale. And its facultymen, including Nobel laureates, cut capers and figure eights at the Pasadena ice-skating rink, whiz about the campus in sports cars at velocities somewhat under the speed of sound, raise goldfish, beat out lowdown boogie on a piano or saw a 'cello in a community string quartet. One eminent theoretical physicist turned up, ragged and happy as a native, whacking a percussion instrument in a Rio street band...
...which demands that an orchestra be strong in all its sections; every first chair player must be a capable soloist. Although there were fine individual performances in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from Richard Bogomolny on violin, Michael Senturia on oboe, and Cynthia Deery on English horn, other sections, noticeably 'cello and French horn, were weak...