Word: cello
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...applications to which Bronshtein refers. The inhabitants of Byerly Hall try to value an application for both its tangible and intangible qualities. This means that the “throwing a ball hard or running quickly” is weighted, as is the ability to play the cello, or a work history that includes the founding of a non-profit. In my experience, there are few students at Harvard “only for athletics,” as there are few students there only for lab work or a role in the orchestra. My teammates have gone...
...world premiere of Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem for choir and orchestra in Adelaide, the audience was respectfully poised for what was expected to be a masterwork from this father of modern Australian composition. What began to issue from the stage was suitably piquant, with cello passages that seemed to weep in waterfalls of sound. Then, in the second movement, something miraculous occurred. Walking slowly from the back of the hall toward the stage came a gentle giant of a man, his 1.9-m bulk wrapped around a hollowed tree trunk into which he breathed. Sculthorpe's music at once expanded...
Take “Autrefois,” a Francophone ballad and the record’s most understated track. As strained cello and Spanish guitar pepper the undercurrent of snare drum and legato piano, Forbes murmurs with a distant passion. It doesn’t matter whether you can understand the lyrics, whose protagonist “whisper[s] sweet nothings to all the girls of France” and “hopes that they respond.” Forbes’s voice, echoing cavernously under heavy reverb, oozes unrequited love and regret entirely...
This oddball tonality is made even odder by the instrumentation, contrasting Wendy Sutter’s cello with Mark Stewart’s undulating electric guitar. The result is intriguing, not alienating...
...both the progression and the strength of a storm—and like a storm, desperation and fear shrouds its approach. “Help Me” is as subtle and as elegantly-orchestrated a cry of futility as Nick Drake’s “Cello Song,” all the more tragic for the Parkinson’s-induced trembling in Cash’s voice. This physical debility from such a normally-imposing figure turns the next track, “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” from...