Word: cello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benjy helped stagehands trundle a piano to the front while fidgety fiddlers scraped their chairs out of the way. As soloist-conductor in the Piano Concerto in G (K.453), Britten continued to have a difficult time. Next came the Adagio and Rondo for glashar-monica, flute, oboe, viola and cello. For the glasharmonica (an 18th Century version of musical glasses), Britten substituted-and played-the celesta, beating time with his head when his hands were on the keys. Two short numbers for violin and orchestra followed; Britten conducted, but did not play. The concert concluded with Britten...
...roaring girl, she still manages to extract a good deal of humor from her material. It is not Restoration wit that gets the laughs when she is on; it is Nancy Walker, pure and simple. She wipes her nose with her sleeve and makes love to a cello with a savage determination that is generally both frightening and funny...
Ravel: Trio in A Minor (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Gregor Piatigorsky, cello; Victor, I side LP). The most interesting of the three trios (the other two: Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) recorded by the famed artists who formally combined their talents for the first time at Chicago's Ravinia Park (TiME, Aug. 22, 1949). The playing in all three is sensitively superb. Recording: excellent...
Hobby Lobby. The Greenewalts live in a 15-room rambling stone hilltop house 7½ miles outside Wilmington with their children, Nancy, 22, David, 20, Crawford Jr., 13. Greenewalt, who used to play clarinet, cello and the piano, now likes to tootle on the basset horn. His restless mind ranges rapidly from hobby to hobby. To make model steam and gasoline engines he transformed one big downstairs room into a machine shop. He also grows orchids. To show the entire process of blooming, he once rigged up an electrically-controlled movie camera to photograph plants at 15-minute intervals...
Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Figured Bass, Vols. I, II & III (Alexander Schneider, violin; Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord; Frank Miller, cello; Columbia, 6 sides LP). A chance for those who know Handel through his booming oratorios to get a more intimate glimpse of him. Performance and recording: excellent...