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CELLIST JANOS STARKER plays with superlative technique: his fingers range the cello fingerboard unerringly while his bow arm sails from one string to another, never straying or accenting incorrectly. But the highlight of Starker's appearance with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Friday night, the Dvorak cello concerto in B minor, demands not only precision but also sensitivity, which the world-renowned cellist was either unwilling or unable to furnish...
...member International Institute for the String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering. He has his own method of drawing the bow more slowly across the strings to achieve a "rich, passionate" tone. He also argues that classical bassists could learn much from the free wheeling devices of jazz and rock, both of which he plays with enthusiasm...
...people needed an outlet, and music was the perfect thing." Violins were easier to make than brass or woodwind instruments. Moreover, the stringed instruments were physically ideal for the Orientals: their nimble fingers, so proficient in delicate calligraphy and other crafts, adapted easily to the demands of the fingerboard...
...time rehearsing and answering the hundreds of letters from well-wishers. And on the evenings when he is not performing, he sits listening in an armchair in the vestry, caressing his cello, his blue eyes gazing into space, his bald head nodding, his left hand dancing on the fingerboard in silent accompaniment to the music that he says sinks into him with "the pleasant heaviness of gold...
...closing Haydn concerto was perhaps the finest musical performance of the year. The solo part is very flashy, with half the first movement written high on the fingerboard, and most of the last in difficult figuration. Forbes, who is a very suave cellist, played with impeccable taste and an overwhelming charm...