Word: cellist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Generation couples a sense of values that is curiously compelling. It esteems inventiveness, eloquence, honesty, elegance and good looks-all qualities personified in the Now Generation's closest approximation of a hero, John F. Kennedy. "Heroism and villainy begin with fantasy," says Stephen Kates, 23, a brilliant concert cellist. "This generation has no fantasies...
...offer this Mass to you as a personal gift," said San Juan's Archbishop Luis Aponte Martinez. "What else could I or the church offer you that could be of any value?" In response, two threads of tears appeared on the cheeks of Cellist Pablo Casals, celebrating his 90th birthday. After the service, the maestro returned with his 30-year-old wife Marta and a small group of friends to his seaside villa, where he opened hundreds of gifts and cables from all over the world. Casals' birthday festival in San Juan lasted two days, ending with...
Troubled by such problems, Cellist Janos Starker recently hit on a solution that is "so simple as to be almost silly." Working with a Chicago violinmaker and a specially designed drill, he bored small, cone-shaped holes in the undersides of the bridges of several string instruments; these holes, says Starker, act like tiny megaphones and "dramatically" amplify the quantity and quality of the tone. So far, he has applied his treatment to 50 string instruments, including the Stradivari played by Chicago Symphony Associate Concertmaster Victor Aitay, who says it has made a "tremendous difference." Starker has applied...
Most musicians agree that women are all right in their place-just as long as that place is not the first desk, a position that gives them authority over the other players in their section. When that happens, egos get bruised. Says a woman who is a first cellist: "How do I tell an older man that he consistently comes in early on bar 24?" The majority of conductors avoid such problems by refusing to promote women to the first desk; one noted maestro once told a string player that she played better than any of his men, but alas...
Respect, Not Money. All of this only makes the girls work harder. Philadelphia Cellist Elsa Hilger, 62, who in 1935 became one of the first women ever to play with a major U.S. orchestra, feels that she is "one of the gang." She insists upon carrying her own bags, does not mind the bothersome business of changing behind trunks and fussing with her wardrobe while on tour (harpists find that pleated skirts stay neatly pressed if wound through the strings of their instruments). Says Boston's Leinsdorf: "Uniformly, the women's pride is so great that their attendance...