Word: cellos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fish in Bowls. As the Kontakte musical score-a mixture of taped airport drones, traffic noise, radio static, mixed in with homemade sounds from drum, piano, saxophone and cello-unwinds, the performers follow carefully drawn stage directions. At 48 minutes sharp, for instance, the percussionist is instructed to "feed all animals, fish in bowls, birds and/or fowl in cages or wooden crates. A stuffed bird in cage is also fed." The director is told "to enter with an ape or with a pack of dogs on leash." At 68 minutes, the painter is instructed to "begin throwing nails on magnetic...
Salvaged Superiority. The casbah line and the other trademarks - the voice of a cello and the bedroom eyes - bore him, in fact. But he knows what he owes to them. Once, when he was urged to play a piratical swashbuckler in Frenchman's Creek, he refused, saying: "I'm not a seagoing pirate. I'm a bedroom pirate...
...there is no fun in it." Served up Fiedler fashion, Pops concerts are so much fun that they are booked solid up to a year in advance by such diverse groups as the Democratic Women on Wheels and the Boston Police Department. "Fiedler could conduct six nuns playing the cello and it would be a sellout," claims one Pops musician...
...virtuosity as a soloist and the perfect rapport the three share when playing together. Istomin hulked mightily over the keyboard to delve deep into the music with the sensitive phrasing that distinguishes his playing. Stern and Rose were so perfectly matched that Rose's 1662 Amati cello seemed at times the baritone voice of Stern's Guarnerius violin. In passages in which phrases are repeated alternately be tween them, each provides a mirror of the other in phrasing, tone, even vibrato. Their precision and ease suggests an immense reserve of talent that the evening's program...
...extremely predictable music hardly demands enough of the soloist for virtuoso display. Flaksman won the concerto auditions playing the Saint-Saens concerto, which is at least pretty, flashy, and, according to cellists, a good piece of cello writing. Why diddle around with warmed-over Vivaldi...