Word: cello
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...told National Public Radio that he planned to give up the cello for the bandoneon, an Argentinian accordion. Instantly, NPR’s phone lines were jammed with listeners despondent over the loss of their favorite instrumentalist...
...recent six-hour video project for PBS, Ma collaborated with artists from various disciplines to present Bach’s “Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.” Choreographer Mark Morris, Olympic figure skaters Torvill and Dean, filmmaker Atom Egoyan, a Kabuki actor and a landscape designer worked with Ma on different suites to create what The Washington Post called an “18th-century music video...
...Chang says that before Harvard, Ma’s life was intensely focused on his family and his cello. Born in Paris to Chinese parents, he took up the cello at the age of four (because, Ma has said, he was attracted to its large size). He was performing in Carnegie Hall by the time he was nine and he was soon studying with Leonard Rose at Julliard’s pre-college program...
...gifted, I give in. I give you / all my old synesthetic fire.” These are the more saccharine moments, but they set the general tempo. More frequently, those bytes join forces to experiment in vagueness: “The sex & chess & cello fever’s gone / from your myopic trust, my Avalon.” “rare black-tipped cigarettes / in a handmade basket-case...
...artist's voice] could draw a word out into a long cello note or quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama...