The Sound of Passion Jun 17, 2009
Ten years of cello, say, can make a person more emotionally intelligent, in some sense. So the alarm carried in a baby s cry make a deeper impression; your spouse wins the race. (Scientific American)
More of this story Jun 16, 2009
Cellist Lynn Harrell (GPAC audiences will remember his passionate performance of the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto with IRIS during the 2007-08 Season) performs with pianist Victor Asuncion on October 22 ... October 22 Classical Music Lynn Harrell, cello r Asuncion, piano. (West Memphis Germantown News, TN)
Capturing Beethoven's contrasts Jun 16, 2009
The repertoire - the two opus 5 cello sonatas as well as the Variations on "Ein M?dchen oder Weibchen" from Mozart's "The Magic Flute" - dated from 1796, when Beethoven, a young composer in a hurry, had made the acquaintance of the virtuoso cellist Jean-Pierre Dupont, performing the sonatas with Dupont for the King of Prussia ... PIETER WISPELWEY, cello. (Boston Globe)
'American Poetry Takes Flight in Song' Jun 16, 2009
At age 10, she started taking cello lessons ... Redhage studied cello performance and music composition at the University of California-Berkeley with Jorge Liderman, John Thow and Edwin Dugger ... After earning her bachelor's degree, Redhage spent two years working as a freelance musician in San Francisco before moving to New York City to study cello performance at the Manhattan School of Music. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Wining and dining in Vienna Jun 16, 2009
Within Vienna, you'll find a colorful pub on nearly every street corner, filled with poetry teachers and their students, couples loving without touching, housewives on their way home from cello lessons, and waiters who enjoy serving hearty, affordable food and drinks. Rick StevesYou'll find hotdog stands sprinkled in squares throughout the old center. (MSNBC -- Travel)
We need music to survive Jun 6, 2009
There, he finished a quartet for piano, cello, violin, and clarinet, and performed it, with three other imprisoned musicians, for the inmates and guards of that camp. The piece ("Quartet for the End of Time") is arguably one of the greatest successes in the history of music. (Yahoo News)
Crescent Valley salutatorians Jun 5, 2009
Activities: National Honor Society secretary, Corvallis Youth Symphony, Corvallis Camerata Orchestra cello, Students for Environmental Awareness Club, soccer, cross country, track, cross country ski team captain. Plans: Attend the University of Oregon Clark Honors College and study environmental science. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Hylie Pappenheimer, 86, violin teacher in Cambridge Jun 5, 2009
Along with teaching at home, she performed there informally with her husband, John R. Pappenheimer, a renowned scientist who taught at Harvard and Harvard Medical School and played cello. "My parents played quartets once a week, so once a month they would play at our house," their other son, Rick Plant, wrote in an e-mail. (Boston Globe)
Emmanuel Music turning to Haydn, Schoenberg Jun 5, 2009
Having presented Bach's solo music for violin and cello in previous seasons, the group now moves to his six Partitas for keyboard, with Beattie opening the series on Feb. 18 with the Third and Robert Levin closing it on March 25 with the Sixth. Other events include a season-opening benefit concert at Scullers Jazz Club, on Sept. 16, featuring a new collection of jazz-flavored songs by Harbison; and a Good Friday performance of the St. Luke Passion by Heinrich Schuttz on April 2. (Boston Globe)
Essentials: This weekend's live music picks Jun 5, 2009
Amy X Neuburg and the Cello ChiXtet. Tonight @ Great American Music Hall: After years of developing her sharply observed song cycle "The Secret Language of Subways," Amy X Neuberg's celebrating the release of the album with the Cello ChiXtet ... Amy X Neuburg and the Cello ChiXtet Tonight @ Great American Music Hall: After. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Nashville Symphony announces June concerts Jun 5, 2009
Featured will be the Nashville Symphony, Danail Rachev, conductor; and Zuill Bailey, cello. Story created Jun 04, 2009 - 14:33:46 EDT.. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Chamber group traces a musical lineage Jun 5, 2009
Along with the Czerny piece, Sunday's concert -- which is the last of the Moment Musical season -- includes J.S. Bach's "Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten" and Andre Caplet's "Legende" for oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass. A reception will follow the concert. (Fresno Bee)
• Events Calendar Jun 5, 2009
Featuring headliner Jenny Owen Youngs, and Thao With the Get Down Stay Down, Low-fi, Elephant Revival, Portland Cello Project, Hillfolk Noir, Free Peoples and Matti Sand. Festival includes food and craft vendors, fire show and stilt-walkers. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Days before graduation, Gunn students grieve Jun 4, 2009
A woman played a sad, slow song on the cello as students gathered on the quad during their morning break. Raymakers, 17, was in her final week at Gunn High School and was scheduled to graduate on June 10. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Nocturnes: Five Stories Of Music And Nightfall Jun 4, 2009
She conducts classes from the Excelsior Hotel but never plays herself, and Tibor notices that there is no cello in her rooms. Odd for a virtuoso. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
OKM to feature 2 charter guests Jun 4, 2009
The program features OKM Music Director Paul Neubauer, viola, and members of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, including Wu Han and Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Fred Sherry and Peter Wiley, cello; along with young artists James Austin Smith, oboe; Lily Francis, violin and viola; and Arnaud Sussmann, violin. The Classical All-Stars will be joined on stage that night by the voice of American Public Media s Performance Today host, Fred Child, who is also the commentator for Live From... (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Troop 89 salutes latest Eagle Scouts Jun 3, 2009
Will also earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and was the Cello Section Leader of the Orchestra this past school year. With his love for music, Will has been the guitar leader for both the Praise Service and the Senior High Fellowship at United Church of Christ. (Medfield Press, MA)
Celebrate Italy Jun 3, 2009
NESE youth concerto competition winners Joinatsuru Yanai (cello) and Jacob Shack (viola) will also perform. There's a pre-concert discussion at 6:45. (Boston Globe)
Matisyahu & Claypool Jun 1, 2009
And his band Mike Dillon on vibraphone (playing the coolest since Lionel Hampton), Paolo Baldi on drums and Sam Bass on distorted cello keeps up with all sides of Claypool. Les Claypool plays Pompano Beach Amphitheater. (The Palm Beach Post)
Blind pianists wows audiences at piano contest May 31, 2009
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP): With a dramatic bow of pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii's head, rich sounds of the piano, violins, cello and viola broke the concert hall silence as he and a string quartet played Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Panel debates role of technology in pop music May 31, 2009
Hirsch said the biggest supporters of digital manipulation are the classical musicians; one top cello player required him to use the program PreTools to do a recording a bar at a time. He said he had found analog recording produces a much closer analogy to actual performance than digital recording, which always sounds bright. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Three-day Spenard JazzFest gets under way tonight May 30, 2009
9 p.m.: Liz Malys, vocals, piano; Yngvil VG, trumpet; Deborah Addie, cello; Nick Petumenos, guitar; Erroll Bressler, bass; and John Damberg, drums, percussion. 10 p.m.: Nick Petumenos, guitar, bass; Ira Sellers, guitar, bass and keyboard; Erroll Bressler, bass; and Cameron Cartland, drums. (Anchorage Daily News)
Swenson named Iowa Classroom String Teacher of the Year May 30, 2009
As an orchestra student, Musfeldt primarily played the violin, but also learned to play cello, viola and string bass while taking an advanced music studies course with Swenson. This fall, Musfeldt plans to pursue studies in music theory and composition at Iowa State University and he said Swenson's teaching was very influential. (Boone Today, IA)
Your best bets for weekend fun May 30, 2009
Friday s program is one of the fest s biggest events as Ma performs Osvaldo Golijov s cello concerto, Azul, which premiered several years ago. 8 p.m. May 29. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Finding Peace May 30, 2009
In "Departures," winner of this year's best foreign film Oscar, an unemployed cello player finds a new purpose and a new life in the business of preparing bodies for cremation. It sounds like disagreeable work, but performed with delicacy and precision, it's a ritual that can help the bereaved find peace. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Ukulele meets Cello to make beautiful music May 29, 2009
" The combination of casual ukulele and classic cello may seem like chalk and cheese but these two seemingly incompatible instruments complement beautifully. "When people come to our concert, they do not know what to expect, or worse, they don't expect," said Hill. Playing on this doubtfulness is what allows both Hill and Davidson to surprise their audience and change conventional thinking. "The ukulele has a higher range where the cello has a lower range" said Davidson. "I also have the... (Channelnewsasia.com)
* [EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT] May 29, 2009
The program includes Hoffmeisters Duet in C Major for Violin and Cello, Glieres Four Duets, Nerudas Berceuse Slave, Beethovens Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor Op. 1 No. 3, among other works. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Brian Wolff rocks with his ramped-up tuba May 29, 2009
"The tuba has got a huge range, similar to the cello in that it's got a beautiful low end and also a melodic range. It's got five or so octaves, which really surprises people. It's a lot more versatile than most people think.". Wolff knew none of this 15 years ago when he stumbled into a music store in Austin, Texas, and fell mysteriously, irrationally in love with a tuba. (Boston Globe)
Rumpelstiltskin goes to the opera May 29, 2009
The piece is written for four singers and an unusual chamber ensemble of violin, cello, saxophone, and percussion. Epstein, who teaches at Berklee School of Music, wrote the libretto herself after what she estimates were six or seven drafts. (Boston Globe)
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Cello-string bass duets highlight Saturday concert ... A Chamber Music Southwest performance will feature regular member John Brecher, a cello player, and Dutch string bass musician Rudolf Senn ... Brecher said the Bach pieces were written for unspecified instruments, though the Beethoven works were originally for viola and cello. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Overlong Departures has lovely moments May 28, 2009
(Similarly, Daigos return to the cello with majestic, snowcapped mountains looming in the background feels a bit forced. . (MSNBC -- Movies)
Edmond Basson, 75, former ASO cellist May 27, 2009
When he turned 15, he picked up the cello ... Plus, he loved vocals and the cello is considered the closest instrument to the human voice, said Marcia Basson, his wife of 31 years ... He knew how the cello worked, she said, and he was very analytical about its science. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
* Video gamers musical fantasies fulfilled May 26, 2009
Liberi Fatali, the shows opening number, exudes a sense of impending darkness through subtle violin and cello interludes, while the piano intro for To Zanarkand and the sorrowful Aeriths Theme are intended to convey feelings of unfulfilled love and homelessness, respectively. Local audiences may recognize Eyes on Me, a track sung by Mando-pop icon Faye Wang () that was used as part of the sound track for Final Fantasy VIII.. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Vanguard gives musical gift May 25, 2009
The list included one clarinet, one oboe, one trombone, one cello, one frugal horn, one trumpet, one snare drum, one organ and four violins one with a case with a name in gold and three flower decals. They were very bright, very cheery very Quinn-like. (Albany Times Union)
New Album Release by Stephen Lyttleton - Sunrise at Basin Harbor May 25, 2009
With the piano taking the lead, the violin and cello join in this chamber work to bring about expressions of exuberance that remind one of pleasant summer mornings in Vermont. Written entirely in Apple's Logic, the music is mastered to deliver a mood that is part classical, part modern. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Yojiro Takita's Oscar-winning 'Departures' May 24, 2009
" Takita, who has been directing films for 30 years, has had some success in his home country, but "Departures" is definitely a career breakthrough. It's beautifully shot on location through all four seasons in the Yamagata Prefecture, features haunting cello music, and Takita brings a delicate and sensitive touch to the material. That might seem odd to fans of his early work in the 1980s in the curious genre unique to Japan known as "pink films" (Takita was known for his work in the "Molester... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
For BC graduation, O'Malley trades Capuchin brown for cardinal's red May 24, 2009
The cellist, named Graham Claydon (played by Tom Hollander) is brought in by the film's hero, LA Times columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr. ), to help a homeless and mentally ill Juilliard dropout, Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx ), resume playing the cello. Hollander talks about his character's faith in the studio's press materials, saying, "He's . . .a very committed Christian, so he hopes that, through him, God can save Nathaniel and bring transformation into his life.". (Boston Globe)
Rubber Souldiers picks up where Beatles left off May 24, 2009
They came as a quartet, with Dick Bright on fiddle and Doug Harman on cello. When, as a sound check, they did the Beatles' "Baby's in Black," Gans says he couldn't help himself and spontaneously added a third harmony part underneath the Rowans. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Julian Lage has got his finger on the pulse May 24, 2009
The surprise, though, is in the laid-back acoustic freshness of the band's sound, consisting of Lage's guitar, Ben Roseth's saxophone, Aristides Rivas' cello, Jorge Roeder's bass and Tupac Mantilla's battery of percussion instruments - but no trap drums. It's a deep-feeling, fluid ensemble for Lage's elastic songwriting concepts. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Music review: Yuja Wang dazzles Symphony Hall May 23, 2009
Peter Wyrick delivered the opening cello solo eloquently. San Francisco Symphony: The program repeats at 8 p.m. today and Saturday in Davies Symphony Hall. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Good (handy) man May 22, 2009
My wife Susan cleans house, does laundry, cooks, teaches violin, cello, and guitar, gardens with flowers and plants, does some weeding, all the painting, takes care of the dog when I don t. She used to do the taxes but now I do. Needless to say I love her. (The Palm Beach Post)
Today's Best Bets May 19, 2009
The Mudflapjacks, consisting of Kirby Amick on banjo and guitar; Jim Kvicala on harmonica, vibraslap and guitar; and the Rev. Jim Richardson on fiddle, cello, guitar, sitar, pennywhistle, recorder, melodica and vocals, is a band born out of the members' love of both bluegrass and parties, which is why the band says they sound like "beergrass" or maybe "brewgrass." Admission is $3. Swing Dancing. (Athens Banner-Herald)
A smart, eclectic closer for Chameleon Arts Ensemble May 18, 2009
cke, Opus 73, were heard in the version for cello and piano. They are some of his most elegantly lyrical creations, and they were played with strict attention to balance and clarity. (Boston Globe)
Tanglewood fare ranges from Tchaikovsky to Taylor May 17, 2009
Aug. 9, 2:30 p.m. BSO. Julian Kuerti, conducts Perle, Shostakovich, Bizet, Faure with Yo-Yo Ma, cello ... Colin Jacobsen, violin, and Yo-Yo Ma, cello. (Boston Globe)
Critics' picks - dance May 17, 2009
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP The company brings two world premieres to Tanglewood this summer, featuring live music by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emanuel Ax, and violinist Colin Jacobsen: "Visitation" is set to Beethoven's Sonata No. 4 for cello and piano, Op. 102, and "Empire Garden" to Ives' Trio for piano, violin, and cello. (Boston Globe)
Using Wii, he conducts a digital orchestra May 16, 2009
Smith played piano at 8, moving on to cello, composition, and conducting as a teen. He later studied at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and was tutored by noted conductor Sergiu Celibidache, whose insistence on the primacy of the concert hall experience left a lasting impression. (Boston Globe)
West Hartford Symphony Orchestra To Play Tonight May 16, 2009
WEST HARTFORD - There's a judge in the flute section, a neurosurgeon in the cellos, a man who once played with in the basses, high school students in the strings, teachers in many sections and a retired manager keeping track of the sheet music ... David Geetter, 75, a retired neurosurgeon who played the cello in his youth and took it up again to try out for the WHSO, is one of the orchestra's original members. (FOX61, CT)
Anaconda group kicks off Sunday with party May 15, 2009
Rastrelli Cello Quartet ... Rastrelli Cello Quartet, Sunday, April 25, 2:30 p.m. Russian cellists who live in Germany play not only classical but also ragtime and jazz with pieces by Tchaikovsky, Handel, Saint-Saens, Grieg, Gershwin, Brubeck and Bernstein. (Montana Standard, MT)
Soothing sounds May 15, 2009
Three musicians - playing the cello, clarinet and viola - performed one hour's music. Usually they play in orchestras - but during this interactive session, the audience of eight residents and their carers is expected to work as hard as the musicians. (BBC News -- Health)
Melrose Youth and Education May 15, 2009
Melrose High School senior and cell soloist Eli Kaynor will be featured in Haydn s Cello Concerto in C major. The Melrose High School Symphony Orchestra will perform March of the Meistersings, by Wagner; a medley of George Gershwin s greatest music, featuring Emma Svoboda on piano; and selections from the musical Les Miserables. (Melrose Free Press, MA)
Inspiring notes: McKinney middle school composers create their own melodies May 15, 2009
Something just came into my head and I wrote it down, Madison Reavis said as she described the beginnings of a piece of music she composed entitled Midnight Twilight for Solo Viola and Cello and String Orchestra ... After a couple of months she had parts written for solo viola, solo cello, first violin, second violin, viola, cello, and bass. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Troubadour finds sounds without borders May 15, 2009
It features Douglas Jenkins from the Portland Cello Project and French Star Tt. Kaiser embodies a modern pop/rock sound that borrows from many genres including rock, hip-hop and reggae. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Winterville's Marigold Festival returns May 14, 2009
Eisenman also notes Wintervillians is a sort of all-star band that's a side project for several Winterville-based musicians, including Noel Blackmon (keyboards, mandolin), Dodd Ferrelle (guitar, vocals), David Van Wyck (cello), Eric Johnson (pedal steel guitar) and celebrated singer-songwriter Jim White, who now makes his home in town. "This will be their first public performance ever," she says. (Athens Banner-Herald)
- EL CENTRO: Young Artist concert set 0 May 14, 2009
Program features 2009 IVSA Young Artist Peter Ko, cello. Program will include Bizet: Suites 1 and 2 from L Arlesienne; Saint-Saens: Concerto for Cello No. 1 in A Minor and Bernstein/Mason: Selections from West Side Story. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Microtonal marks 20 years with several premieres May 13, 2009
John Mallia's similarly unworldly "Dodo" (a premiere), its intervals derived from that extinct bird's physiology, spins a lush cello line (played beautifully by David Russell) over vintage analog synthesizer noise, channeling retro sci-fi's eerie nostalgia ... Alain Bancquart's "Duettino" (a premiere), a tortoise-and-hare dialogue - Elizabeth England's serene English horn overtaking Russell's voluble cello - glinted with bright modernist clarity. (Boston Globe)
Take a bow: Strings program back May 13, 2009
RPI gave the district $24,000, which was used to buy 25 violins, 16 violas and 14 cellos. "It's a very good opportunity for the kids,'' said Kenneth Kelly, the music teacher hired by the district to relaunch the strings program.Sydney McNall, 9, a third-grader from School 18, was the lone cello player on the EMPAC stage."It like it a lot ... I like graceful music,'' Sydney said while packing up her cello after the performance. (Albany Times Union)
Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN) Hosts "Etudes for Innovation" May 12, 2009
Phillips plays a Matteo Gofriller cello dated 1710. The cello was the favorite of Pablo Casals for nearly 30 years, said Wolcott ... Xavier Phillips,Frances cello virtuoso and successor to the legendary cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, performing with the Ars Viva Orchestra conducted by Alan Heatherington. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Small-ensemble music at its best May 12, 2009
The trick to counting lies in the continuo part, a single part usually performed by two musicians, one playing a single bass line (as by a cello, viol or bassoon) and one playing a chordal "realization" of the bass line (as by an organ, harpsichord, lute or harp). Both played the bass line, but the musician on the chordal instrument also improvised or "realized" the part, according to symbols in the bass line indicating which chords to use when. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Violin virtuosity delights listeners May 12, 2009
"As bookends to the larger pieces, Delfs chose two lighter works: Mikhail Glinka's Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla," with its famous cello theme, and Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture. "As always, the "1812 Overture" made quite an impression. It is not the only piece that employs cannons as musical instruments the cannon blasts are written into the score but it is the most well-known. The piece is most fun when performed with real cannons, but surely to the relief of fire marshals everywhere,... (Honolulu Advertiser)
Violinist Giora Schmidt shines in Honolulu Symphony performance May 11, 2009
As bookends to the larger pieces, Delfs chose two lighter works: Mikhail Glinka's Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla," with its famous cello theme, and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. As always, the 1812 Overture made quite an impression. (Honolulu Advertiser)
A Sennheiser epiphany, ‘In the Garden,’ and a dark truck ride home ... (1) May 11, 2009
I don t even want an orchestra behind the music of the piano or the hammered dulcimer, the cello or the guitar and it doesn t have to be hymns and rarely even is. I happen to believe that all good music is a gift from God and I can enjoy Dino or Dean Martin or Ottmar Liebert playing Christmas in Santa Fe it doesn t really matter to me. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Music review: S.F. Symphony does Haydn concerto May 10, 2009
The solo instruments are violin, cello, oboe and bassoon, but the whole idea of the "sinfonia concertante" - a "concerto-ish symphony," to translate crudely - is that the line between soloists and orchestra is consistently blurred. The quartet of headliners repeatedly steps out into the spotlight, then fades back into the ensemble without a hitch. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Young brothers work their magic May 10, 2009
He takes lessons in chess, cello, piano, and French. This strikes me as major overload, but so far he's game. (Boston Globe)
Manny Ramirez is left out of left field May 9, 2009
He apologized to everybody in Southern California except the octomom, the topless Miss USA contestant, Steve Lopez and the dude with the cello. This had been looking like the Dodgers' year, even in May. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Movie review: In 'The Soloist,' Downey Jr. is its heart, soul May 9, 2009
Ayers was a child prodigy on the cello and suffered a breakdown while a student at Juilliard. Foxx is brilliant and very convincing as the tortured soul that is Ayers. (Santa Maria Times)
