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Onstage, with her long arms and legs embracing the cello, her straw-colored hair falling over her shoulders, and her pink-cheeked English face radiating health and happiness, she looked a bit like Alice in Wonderland grown to womanhood. That was one reason why Jacqueline du Pré emerged as the darling of worldwide concert audiences while still in her early 20s. Another was the graceful and eloquently soulful way she played her cumbersome instrument. Her tone had an auburn glow, her phrasing a masculine power, and her programming showed an equal devotion to old favorites (the Schumann and Saint...
...Daniel Barenboim in 1967, Jackie's active career became almost frenetic. When she and Daniel were not performing together, they were jetting off separately to tour on different continents, then rushing back home to London to be with each other. It did not seem all that unusual when Du Pré, in the summer of 1971, came down with what was described as nervous exhaustion and canceled all her concerts for the following season...
Save for an occasional recording session and concert, however, the Du Pré career never fully resumed. Last week the explanation came out. After extensive hospital tests late last month, doctors have determined that, at 28, Du Pré is a victim of multiple sclerosis...
...cure. Its crippling, paralyzing and all too often fatal course-marked by alternating exacerbations and remissions-can be run in as few as three years or as many as 50. Hormones, especially of the cortisone type, can relieve acute symptoms during the early phases. By all odds, however, Du Pré's career and very possibly her life will be cruelly curtailed...
...Du Pré has not performed in public since last February. Her last recording (cello and piano sonatas by Chopin and Franck, with Barenboim) was made two years ago. In order to spend more time with her, Barenboim recently canceled a one-month tour of the U.S., and plans to cut his foreign travel sharply in the future...