Word: cellist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guess again. The blond (Joan Jeanrenaud) is a cellist by craft, and the longhair (Hank Dutt) plays, appropriately, the viola. Along with violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, they form the Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi...
BEETHOVEN: CELLO SONATAS 3 & 5 (EMI). The late, preternaturally gifted cellist Jacqueline Du Pre exudes sensitivity and breathtaking virtuosity as she teams up with pianist Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich on this digital reissue...
BEETHOVEN: CELLO SONATAS 3 & 5 (EMI). The preternaturally gifted cellist Jacqueline Du Pre exudes sensitivity and breathtaking virtuosity as she teams up with pianist Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich on this digital reissue...
...guitar influence, sounds at times like Dire Straits' "Making Movies." While a great deal of the piece is marked by a rolling placidity, Manakas' guitar solos make "Serpentine Wall" catchy and memorable. "Infinite Circles" follows "Serpentine Wall" with a completely different sound marked by piano and cello. Cossu and cellist Eugene Friesen, who played on the Windham Hill release, New Friend, often mimic each other in a raindrop pattern and also present some haunting harmonies...
According to Garraway, Hinton joins select company with his December victory. Past competition-winners include cellist Yo Yo Ma '76 and pianist Ursula Oppens...