Word: cello
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nearly every Radcliffe student had at least one really long trip in her schedule every term. As a result, we carried a sense of street danger. At night the Common, a convenient shortcut, was unsafe, and the very dark side streets had deservedly poor reputations. I remember carrying my cello home alone from a Mem Hall rehearsal because there were no other Radcliffe players going home at that time. I really wondered if I would make it safely to the protected zone of the Quad...
...late 1960s and the setting an imaginary but vividly realized village on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. Experiencing "blossoming self-hood," three women divorce their husbands, tug their children into the vortex of downward economic mobility and take up careers. Alexandra Spofford makes clay figurines, Jane Smart plays the cello, and Sukie Rougemont writes a gossip column for the local paper. These friends meet almost every Thursday, as a coven of genuine, practicing witches: "In the right mood and into their third drinks they could erect a cone of power above them like a tent to the zenith...
Casals' simple but masterfully eloquent performance of the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello had moved the most undazzled of them to tears. When he put down his cellist's bow and took up the baton, he had called forth a fresh new spirit from the weariest fingers...
...Ischia, Italy. At 21, Walton scandalized London with his first important work, Fagade, irreverent musical parodies written to accompany poems by his patron Edith Sitwell. He later turned to more conventional forms, such as the oratorio Belshazzar's Feast and his romantic concertos for violin, viola and cello. A slow, painstaking composer who once complained, "A lot of the time music irritates me to madness, especially my own," he nonetheless wrote up to the end; a few days before his death he completed the score for the ballet Varii Capricci, which will premiere in New York City next month...
DIED. Alfred Franz Wallenstein, 84, the first nationally renowned U.S.-born conductor, who raised the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the top ranks as its music director from 1943 to 1956; in New York City. A child prodigy who played cello on the vaudeville circuit to help pay for his music studies, he conducted his Sinfonietta on the Mutual Network from...