Word: cello
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...WesMatch.com a site featuring a humorous, elaborate personality questionnaire. The service allows students to rate themselves and their potential mates in categories ranging from sex drive to "socialisticbutterflyosity." An algorithm then calculates a student's compatibility with a list of matches. "I wanted a vegan girlfriend who plays the cello and likes folk music," Stillman says. The site has been a hit on the Wesleyan campus. This fall their more ambitious project, CampusMatch, may expand from five to dozens of schools...
...famous (and friendliest) face of classical music, as he busily builds bridges between West and East and with the rest of the developing world. A truly global force, Ma's recent projects include a collaboration with Brazilian musicians and, on June 15, a performance in Singapore of a new cello concerto by Chinese composer Chen Yi, along with a quadruple concerto by acclaimed Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng. Following Ma's lead, young Asian players are nowadays edging out their Western counterparts at the best conservatories in Europe and America; and as they mature, Asian instrumentalists are increasingly getting star...
...parents thought I had zero musical talent, but then I discovered the cello,” he said...
Following the conversation, audience members were invited to ask questions of the musician before he set up to perform J.S. Bach’s first cello suite...
Through this project he has sought to expand his cello repertoire, premiering works by a diverse group of contemporary composers...