Word: musicians
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...this what it means to be an elite classical musician in the age of Clinton? One has a hard time picturing Mstislav Rostropovich pulling off his pants in front of reporters. Nor, for that matter, can one picture Pablo Casals recording albums with jazz singers or Texas fiddlers or Argentine tango musicians as Ma has done. Or either cellist initiating, as Ma has, an ambitious series of six hour-long films inspired by Bach's six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, involving collaborators as diverse as movie director Atom Egoyan, modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris, ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher...
...Grammys in the process and enjoying a number of crossover hits, including Hush with vocalist Bobby McFerrin and Appalachia Waltz with bassist Edgar Meyer and violinist-fiddler Mark O'Connor (the latter CD has been a fixture on the classical charts for 76 weeks). But life as an elite musician has its dreary side. Ma has a grueling concert schedule that keeps him on the road roughly half the year. Ax's comments notwithstanding, Ma practices where he can--in hotels, airports, trains, the back of limos, by the side of the road and, if he's lucky, at home...
...really wrong. I set myself the goal that I damn well better remember at the end of the year what I did, or otherwise I shouldn't be doing it." He shrugs off criticism of his experiments with "lesser" genres: "Where do these designations like 'You are a classical musician, you can't do this' come from? The way people think of classical music is probably 50 years old. When we think of German music today, we think it is heavy, deep and conservative. If you look at the time period in which this music was written...
...come at the sacrifice of the quartet's many personalities. Somewhere between the pauses and rests, between the crescendos and dimenuendos, the players' personality seeps through. And while there is an intrinsic level of formality in the performance of any string quartet (underscored by the tuxedos of the musicians and the gilded architecture of the halls they play in), the Guarneri String Quartet employs no formality that stifles the honesty and candidness of their personality. As each musician performed with ease and comfort, the second violinist, John Dalley even allowed himself to beam with a smile in some...
...musician and actor that I could have been is gone. Instead, years of service as a local community choral singer, choral director, organist and pianist have gone a long way toward making up for the damage that was done during my years at Harvard...