Word: cello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mailmen, policemen, engineers, salesmen and a chiropodist. One musician, an accountant, rides his motorcycle 30 miles from his Watertown job, wearing an old Air Force flying suit over his tuxedo, to play. Until she retired to have her fourth baby, his wife used to ride with him, clutching her cello. Now, at their five concerts a year in the Soo-seat Waukesha High School auditorium, Waukeshans hear creditable and sometimes even polished performances of the classics and a fair sampling of moderns...
When Gregor Piatigorsky put away his cello for a long rest 15 months ago, he was the best cellist in the U.S.* Back in Carnegie Hall last week for the first time since his sabbatical, a slightly greyer "Grischa" Piatigorsky proved that there is still no one around who can touch...
Carrying his $30,000 Stradivarius cello like a toy, the hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.) master lunged onstage, plunked himself into a chair next to the piano. Then he launched into a program of Schumann, Bach, Milhaud, Debussy, Bloch and Ravel. He played them all with masterful technique and taste, though he was at his best when the music called for soaring rhapsody. All in all, he played with the freshness of a man who had taken time out to think things over...
...with the hotel, train and plane life of the touring virtuoso. It occurred to him that he had not taken a real vacation since the age of eight, when he got his first job as a cellist. At 46, he wrote his manager: "I have carried my big cello from city to city. I have never refused an interview, even to a school paper. I have seen everybody after a performance who wanted to see me. For a while, I can stop...
...Violinists Joseph Szigeti, Alexander Schneider, Flutist John Wum-mer, Oboist Marcel Tabuteau. The chief interest in Volume III is The Musical Offering (which Bach began as an improvisation on a theme supplied by Frederick the Great). Volume VI contains two memorable performances: Casals playing the Sonata No. 3 for cello and piano, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin's performance of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor and the Italian Concerto in F Major. The six suites for unaccompanied cello, which Casals previously recorded for Victor (H.M.V.), are not included...