Word: cellos
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...pathos and surrealism. Ishiguro examines the absurdity of how humans protect themselves from the outside world and the moment in which this protection begins to wear down. Eloise McCormack, the self-professed virtuoso cellist who coaches young Tibor on his technique, eventually confesses that she cannot play the cello. She justifies this by claiming that other, less-gifted teachers would have destroyed her innate gift if she had taken lessons with them: “I knew I had to protect my gift against people who, however well-intentioned they were, could completely destroy it.” Yet this...
...project all the consummate, knob-twiddling expertise that you would expect of a two-time Grammy nominee. Huun Huur Tu's sparse, ethereal songs - where simple lutes like the doshpuluur and two-stringed fiddles like the igil form the typical accompaniment - are fleshed out with drum loops, cello, keyboard and guitar, but they are not overwhelmed. In haunting paeans like "Mother Taiga" or "Ancestors Call" the romance of the Tuvan steppe is potently concentrated...
...Hepburn. (Who in the world could?) She has the round, puddingy face of a young Angela Lansbury or Joan Plowright. Your eyes are drawn to the deep dimple that, when she laughs, runs up her left cheek like a sweet scar; and your ears to her rich cello voice, so mature and supple an instrument for someone who's played girls on the cusp of womanhood since her movie debut as Keira Knightley's sister Kitty in the 2005 Pride and Prejudice...
...prize excellence of all kinds… part of the American college experience is athletics; it’s a form of excellence. In many communities students can’t afford a cello [for example] but have sports programs… We have the largest number of intercollegiate sports – it has been a way to reach out to students who would not have been able to come to Harvard otherwise, if you look at student athletes later in life it’s amazing what they have done...
...prize excellence of all kinds… part of the American college experience is athletics; it’s a form of excellence. In many communities students can’t afford a cello [for example] but have sports programs… We have the largest number of intercollegiate sports – it has been a way to reach out to students who would not have been able to come to Harvard otherwise, if you look at student athletes later in life it’s amazing what they have done...