Word: cellos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Endikin and Reetchie" by Harvey Firari and "Cello Days at Dixon Place" by Michael Weller took an attentive and from a post-nuclear desert hell to the temporary break-up of an idyllic situation in the Village of three young men and the woman they idealistically share The one-act plays, both originals premiering at the Ex, are moderate successes, certainly up to what are now the fairly high standards...
...like a subway commuter at rush hour. Briskly threading his way through the orchestra, he plopped down on his chair, tossed a quick glance at the conductor and began to play-so abruptly that he took the audience by surprise. Head bobbing, lips pursed in concentration, he embraced his cello bear-hug fashion and sawed away with the workaday look of a man slicing bread...
From Memory. Though a silent, pale, frail-looking man, Rostropovich is the iron man of the concert circuit. Periodically, like a compulsive mountain climber, he seems compelled to tackle great chunks of the cello repertory simply because it is there. In eleven concerts in Moscow last winter, he accomplished the unparalleled feat of playing 41 different works, virtually the entire repertory for cello and orchestra, all from memory...
Highlight of the concert was Benjamin Britten's entrancing Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. The work is one of three that Britten has composed for the cellist since they became fast friends five years ago. At concert's end, the audience was ecstatic. And so was Rostropovich, alternately applauding the audience, Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, the London Symphony and Britten, who was sitting in a box with Leonard Bernstein. At the insistence of the audience, Britten left his box to conduct an encore...
Line of Teachers. An indefatigable crusader for the enrichment of the scant cello repertory, Rostropovich has induced several other composers to create for the cello. Prokofiev and Shostakovich both wrote works for him. Born in Baku, Russia, Rostropovich was virtually weaned on cello music; his grandfather and father, who studied under Casals, were noted teachers of the instrument. When the family moved to Moscow, Rostropovich joined his father's class at the Children's Music School, began teaching on his own at 15. At 19 he was appointed soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic, played in a trio with...