Word: cellist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leonard Slatkin. 37, of the St. Louis Symphony. The leader of this first-class orchestra comes by his music loving naturally. Growing up in Los Angeles, Slatkin heard his violinist father and cellist mother play chamber music regularly as half of the Hollywood String Quartet. Slatkin on the podium maintains tight control over his orchestra; his performances are marked by precision and a command of musical architecture that permits him to bring off unwieldly pieces like Rachmaninoffs uncut Second Symphony...
Danny, a fiery cellist with wild red hair, played soccer like a fiend and took young girls for midnight riders on his Honda-destination always a mystery, Deborah, a violinist, was less flamboyant, but ended up in a tortuous love affair with a boy 15 years her junior. Pianists Sven and Andrew seemed normal enough behind the keyboard but suffered a manic addiction to killer basketball, in which the object was not so much to get the ball in the hoop as to tackle whoever had it while ripping to shreds as much clothing as possible. Others were downright eccentric...
...Kempinski's play is a melancholy partita-two characters, six scenes-about a brilliant violinist struck down in her prime by multiple sclerosis, and the psychiatrist who tries to help her. The plot may seem a tasteless gloss on the career-ending disease of Cellist Jacqueline du Pré. But in its London version, there were no easy answers-no answers at all-for this driven young woman. As played by Frances de la Tour, she was a figure of shy, rueful dignity who achieved heroism by confronting her despair...
...fact, Whittington is very good friends with one cellist, HRO president Joyce Jacobsen; the two of them were part of a quartet which split the rent on an apartement last summer. "He's really quite domestic," Jacobsen says. "He makes a mean corned beef and cabbage...
CLASSICAL: Contemporary Music Concert; Pamela Fraley, soprano, Betty Hillman, Cellist, and members of the Tufts Music faculty; Alumnae Hall; Thursday...