Word: cello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sell out the barnlike Constitution Hall (3,810 seats, plus 50 crammed onto the stage beside the orchestra) two nights in a row. The Sabre Dance was on the docket (as an encore), but most of the evening was devoted to larger works: the 1963 Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and the 1943 Symphony...
...Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak Hebrew." After the other guests had chanted Hasidic songs for the couple, Mehta sang themes from Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Beethoven's Hamrnerklavier sonata with Hebrew inflections. Later he told the rabbi they were old Persian Jewish hymns...
...table in an RCA Victor recording studio in Manhattan and listened to a playback. The cello came on with a rhapsodic, throbbing solo. "Very beautiful," sighed the old man, and tapped Cellist David Soyer approvingly on the knee. Then, a gnarled passage for piano and strings. "No," said the old man, "that's not so good. Here Brahms makes a trap, and we fell in. What shall...
...Five Bagatelles, sandwiched as they were between two chestnuts, could not help but be a musical gourmet's delight. Written in a disjunct, motivic style that borrows almost as much from jazz as from serial technique, they presented problems of cohesion and continuity similar to those of the Dallapiccola 'Cello Concerto performed by the HRO last spring. This time, however, the orchestra succeeded. Rather than struggling frantically through the notes, the players were in sufficient control of the music to interpret it and make it come alive...
...full of contrasts--dynamic, textural, rhythmic--and the orchestra brought them out vividly and strikingly. Here the orchestra received a bit of unplanned assistance from the Cambridge Fire Department. At the end of the Third Bagatelle, the rising wail of the fire siren coincided exactly with the solo 'cello's ascending glissando. It was probably the only time 'cellist Martha Babcock smiled during a concert...