Word: cellos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jack Benny stops in to host "Fiddler on the Loose" with such guests as Concert Violinist Michael Rabin, Brazilian Singer Astrud Gilberto, Pianist Liberace and "The Waukegan String Quartet," which includes violins bowed by Rabin, Benny and Comedian Henny Youngman and cello by Morey Amsterdam...
Prince Charles likes pop music well enough, but really prefers classical. He plays the electric guitar, the cello and the trumpet. His only close friends are in the family-his Gloucester cousins, Prince William, 25, and Prince Richard, 23, and a German cousin, Prince Guelf of Hannover. He is occasionally seen squiring a pretty girl about London, and the Queen gives private dances for him at Windsor Castle. The girls, however, are invariably old friends from childhood or sisters of schoolmates. So far, there has been no hint of a romance in the prince's life...
...coming in with a soupy "oooo" that sounds a little mocking. At its best the irony is both cutting and touching, as in "She's Leaving Home," where the Beatles mock the uncomprehending parents by singing their parts in falsetto and by underscoring their grief with a treacly, melodramatic cello lament. Yet, like most of these songs, this one mixes deep pathos with edgy comedy. A good deal of the musical tension and emotional excitement of the record comes from the way the Beatles assault their own simple, vulnerable tunes with an ironical barrage of electronic instruments, deliberately overdone rock...
This was somewhat the case at Sanders last night as planist Robert Helps, violinist Isadore Cohen and 'cellist Charles McCracken teamed up to perform the well-known and beloved work. By professional strandards, it was a fairly sloppy performance. The strings, especially the 'cello, suffered periodic spates of bad intonation; phrasing in the piano seemed to lack contour and direction; and on the whole the three sounded as if they had not much time to play together...
...first half of the program was epater le bourgeois, the thought behind the second must have been to send 'em home happy. This was done effectively by Galimir and company's performance of Mozart's Divertimento No. 7 in D major, K. 205. Scored for violin, viola, 'cello, double bass, two French horns and bassoon, the piece provided a refreshing antidote to the solid-string sound that had preceeded it. The preponderance of instruments with low ranges tended to make the piece a bit bottom heavy, but Galimir played as if trying to make up singlehandedly for the dearth...