Word: menahem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back on 25 years with the Beaux Arts Trio, cellist Bernard Greenhouse comments. "I think it's a miracle! Twenty-five years is a long time to be together: I'm surprised we're still talking to each other." Indeed Greenhouse and his companions, violinist Isidore Cohen and pianist Menahem Pressler, are still the closest of friends, in spite of the strain of playing more than 125 concerts around the world every year. One reason the group has kept its sanity over the years is that the members maintain a distinct separateness when not on tour. They hardly ever...
...including Emanuel Feuermann and Pablo Casals. The latter taught Greenhouse in France just after World War II for free--in exchange for his pledge to support the Spanish Republican cause. After spending some years as a soloist. Greenhouse opted for a somewhat less draining ensemble career. When his friends Menahem Pressler and Daniel Guilet approached him in 1955, he agreed to join them for eight to ten concerts. He has been a part of the Beaux Arts Trio ever since. Greenhouse, age 64, plays a Stradivarius cello, 210 years older than himself. Stradivarius only made 60 celli, and today only...
...Remember Chicago?" asks Pianist Menahem Pressler. "The page-turner who couldn't read music? After only a few bars she turned the page. I turned it back. After a few more bars she turned it again. I turned it back again. Then when the right moment came-nothing...