Word: cellos
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West Side Story Suite culminates a resurgence of Robbins' creativity. From the late '80s, when he was preparing Jerome Robbins' Broadway, until 1994, little was heard from him. Then he created a suite of dances to Bach cello music for Mikhail Baryshnikov, who had persuaded him back into the studio. Said Robbins at the time: "It was a real do-or-die thing for me." Still caught up by Bach, he adapted several two- and three-part inventions for students at the School of American Ballet. Working with people "at the beginning of life" restored his energy...
...Ehrlich, the movement gets its name from a slogan of the Underground Railroad, "follow the drinking gourd." At first, it sounds like a syncopated roundance in uneven time. Much of its inspiration appears drawn from the stark landscapes that Barto'k portrayed in his string music. Soon, the cello enters with a jazz vamp, introducing the genre in which Ehrlich is most at home...
Sunday Concert Series. PresentsMusicians from Marlboro performing Haydn Trio 101for Viola, Tenor Viola and Cello; Hindemith Octetfor Winds and Strings and Beethoven's Septet inE-flat Major, Op. 20 Isabella Stewart GardnerMuseum, 1:30 p.m. $2 for students. Call 734-1359for more information...
Students have built projects ranging from a low-pollution lawn mower motor to a shock-absorbing cello case, Howe says...
...London disc also features a recording of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Ronald Brautigam at the piano and Peter Masseurs supplying the trumpet solo work. The piece resembles Shostakovich's other concertos for violin and cello in that conventional devices of the Germanic school are used for delirious swells and placid falls, with the addition of unexpected minor chord modulations that open up new possibilities for the instrument. Those who see Shostakovich as a throwback to the Romantics should not underestimate the importance of his original variations on timetested themes...