- By Norman Lebrecht
- On April 3, 2020
What are they missing most? Obviously, musicians are miss rehearsal, performance and audiences. Music, theatre and ballet are the sociable arts. Writers and painters are fairly accustomed to isolation. Maestros don’t know what to do on their own, except sleep.
What are audiences missing? To judge by our mailbag, the ritual of concertgoing, seeing the same faces in the same places, sharing a common life-enhancing convocation.
What is the music business missing? Everything. No cash-flow, no security, not much future direction.
Beyond these crippling deprivations, we’re seeing signs of shortening attention spans.
One home-based video might go wildly viral, but the next one won’t. A cute idea might catch the moment, but it will be gone by afternoon.
We’re looking to be surprised, but we don’t know how to build on an intriguing sensation.
We’re looking for guidance, but who can we trust?
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Cellists all over the world should know of this and protest😡
http://slippedisc.com/2018/02/airline-imposes-a-cello-tax/
http://slippedisc.com/2018/02/airline-imposes-a-cello-tax/
Archived Cello Tweets
*The Elgar Concerto with du Pre which she most likely performed on the Davidoff after she acquired it in 1964.
https://youtu.be/XwMON0FsAaAyoutu.be/XwMON0FsAaA
*BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Daniel Barenboim: ‘She had lost all sense of touch’. Here is the saddest clip cellists will hear. Remembering Jackie on her birthday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qrs1k
*Very interesting video of Zara Nelsova in a masterclass at a festival in Norway.
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/festspillene-i-bergen-tv/FMUS00005773/03-08-1973
Yet another flying-with-a-cello issue https://slippedisc.com/2019/07/cellist-faces-air-rage-for-bringing-such-ridiculous-luggage-on-board/
Here's a fun cello group!
Https://www.facebook.com/massiveviolins/videos/251910418629700/
Here's a fun birthday tribute! https://slippedisc.com/2019/05/how-many-of-these-quartet-players-can-you-name/
*Cello is thrown off US flight as "security risk". This has gone too far.
https://www.google.com/ads/user-lists/995153884/?label=ctneCPPWkWAQ3K_D2gM&script=0&random=2238923578&fpvtc=/995153884/%3Fvalue%3D1.00%26currency_code%3DUSD%26label%3DctneCPPWkWAQ3K_D2gM%26guid%3DON%26script%3D0%26random%3D1638992111
"Hallelujah" for cello and strings, performed by the winner of the BBC's Musician of the Year 2016.
https://shar.es/19hCBZ
Cello hive for bees https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07ckfyq
*Nothing like 40 Cellos playing Thomas Tallis' "Spem in alium"
http://www.classicfm.com/composers/tallis/spem-in-alium-40-cellos/#Eo9f7z0MFEeU0xxq.9
*An amazing 13 year old playing the Roccoco Variations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgnbz45iBew&app=desktop
*Speedy Rostropovich
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1880910682120487&id=1879459502265605m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1880910682120487&id=1879459502265605
*Speedy youth
m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1880910682120487&id=1879459502265605
*Is there nowhere to practise? https://shar.es/1OrqvP
For those of you who remember Amanda Forsyth's master classes at UNC in Jan. 2016, here is a video of her playing Tchaikovsky's Nocturne and Andante Cantabile with Pinchas Zuckerman conducting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-T44TrqL0g
A difficult way of life for a professional cellist -
http://slippedisc.com/2015/10/a-principal-cellist-tells-of-her-terror-of-hearing-music/
Yo Yo Ma's tribute to legendary Boston cellist, Jules Eskin
http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/yo-yo-ma-mourns-his-role-model/
More tributes to Jules Eskin – https://shar.es/1IO3Mi
Advice from Jules Eskin on how to pass a Boston audition
http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/how-to-pass-a-boston-audition-play-the-swan/
Tribute to William Pleeth, British teacher of Jacqueline du Pre and many more.
http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/cello-daddys-children-are-marking-his-100th/
1.1 million Americans watch Bach suites in Trump’s first week http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/sht-happens-1-1-million-americans-watch-bach-suites-in-trumps-first-week/
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https://youtu.be/XwMON0FsAaAyoutu.be/XwMON0FsAaA
*BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Daniel Barenboim: ‘She had lost all sense of touch’. Here is the saddest clip cellists will hear. Remembering Jackie on her birthday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qrs1k
*Very interesting video of Zara Nelsova in a masterclass at a festival in Norway.
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/festspillene-i-bergen-tv/FMUS00005773/03-08-1973
Yet another flying-with-a-cello issue https://slippedisc.com/2019/07/cellist-faces-air-rage-for-bringing-such-ridiculous-luggage-on-board/
Here's a fun cello group!
Https://www.facebook.com/massiveviolins/videos/251910418629700/
Here's a fun birthday tribute! https://slippedisc.com/2019/05/how-many-of-these-quartet-players-can-you-name/
*Cello is thrown off US flight as "security risk". This has gone too far.
https://www.google.com/ads/user-lists/995153884/?label=ctneCPPWkWAQ3K_D2gM&script=0&random=2238923578&fpvtc=/995153884/%3Fvalue%3D1.00%26currency_code%3DUSD%26label%3DctneCPPWkWAQ3K_D2gM%26guid%3DON%26script%3D0%26random%3D1638992111
"Hallelujah" for cello and strings, performed by the winner of the BBC's Musician of the Year 2016.
https://shar.es/19hCBZ
Cello hive for bees https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07ckfyq
*Nothing like 40 Cellos playing Thomas Tallis' "Spem in alium"
http://www.classicfm.com/composers/tallis/spem-in-alium-40-cellos/#Eo9f7z0MFEeU0xxq.9
*An amazing 13 year old playing the Roccoco Variations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgnbz45iBew&app=desktop
*Speedy Rostropovich
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1880910682120487&id=1879459502265605m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1880910682120487&id=1879459502265605
*Speedy youth
m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1880910682120487&id=1879459502265605
*Is there nowhere to practise? https://shar.es/1OrqvP
For those of you who remember Amanda Forsyth's master classes at UNC in Jan. 2016, here is a video of her playing Tchaikovsky's Nocturne and Andante Cantabile with Pinchas Zuckerman conducting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-T44TrqL0g
A difficult way of life for a professional cellist -
http://slippedisc.com/2015/10/a-principal-cellist-tells-of-her-terror-of-hearing-music/
Yo Yo Ma's tribute to legendary Boston cellist, Jules Eskin
http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/yo-yo-ma-mourns-his-role-model/
More tributes to Jules Eskin – https://shar.es/1IO3Mi
Advice from Jules Eskin on how to pass a Boston audition
http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/how-to-pass-a-boston-audition-play-the-swan/
Tribute to William Pleeth, British teacher of Jacqueline du Pre and many more.
http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/cello-daddys-children-are-marking-his-100th/
1.1 million Americans watch Bach suites in Trump’s first week http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/sht-happens-1-1-million-americans-watch-bach-suites-in-trumps-first-week/
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The Accademia Musicale di Sienna posesses one of the rare early ‘Amatise’ Stradivari cellos, known as the ‘Chigiano’ after the only recorded previous owner, Count Guido Chigi Saracini of Sienna, who founded the Conservatoire in 1932. It has been seldom noted or seen outside Sienna itself. The Saracini are a very ancient and venerable Siennese family, including the seventeenth century lutenist and composer Claudio Saracini, known to and admired by Monteverdi. The Palazzo Chigi-Sarancini, present home of the Conservatoire, was acquired by the Sarancini around 1770 and Count Guido began the process of modifying the palace into a musical centre around 1920. The first professor of the cello there was Arturo Bonucci, husband of the violinist Pina Carmirelli.
A 2016 Thanksgiving offering from Yo YO Ma
Dear Friends,
In this week of reflection and giving thanks, I would like to share with you one of the most moving experiences I’ve had this year.
This past summer, I had the great fortune to visit the Mogao cave temples in Dunhuang, for centuries a thriving religious and cultural crossroads on the historic Silk Road. These art-filled grottoes are carved from a cliffside in the Gobi desert oasis, and they reflect ideas and influences from as far away as India and Persia.
The hundreds of highly decorated chambers and sanctuaries of the Mogao caves bear witness to a time of cultural, political, and economic interchange, and recall a city that was a vibrant meeting place for traders, artists, and scholars. The murals and sculptures owe their existence to people who followed some of the best human instincts: openness to the unknown and an inclination to meet, connect, and create. Then or now, these values reflect a world guided by curiosity, empathy, trust, and a commitment to the results of unexpected collaboration. It’s no coincidence that, just weeks earlier, my colleagues in the Silk Road Ensemble spent several days collaborating at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, sharing their own interpretations of the Cave Temple exhibition with a new audience.
When we created Silkroad 18 years ago, we wanted the organization to represent the same ideas embodied in the caves – to foster artistic endeavors that reflect universal human values and impact society. Over the past few years, we have been building programs that train musicians, students, and educators in the same ideas, and we hope each of them will go on to seed exploration, creativity, and empathy around the world.
This is a mission that gives me great joy. I smile when I consider a society shaped by the type of radical cultural collaboration that filled the caves at Dunhuang, and that audiences tell us they hear when the Silk Road Ensemble performs. It is a world in which the practice of empathy could lead to a more harmonious future.
I invite you to take a few minutes to see some of the results of this collaboration, and to help us envision what might come next.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Yo-Yo Ma
Dear Friends,
In this week of reflection and giving thanks, I would like to share with you one of the most moving experiences I’ve had this year.
This past summer, I had the great fortune to visit the Mogao cave temples in Dunhuang, for centuries a thriving religious and cultural crossroads on the historic Silk Road. These art-filled grottoes are carved from a cliffside in the Gobi desert oasis, and they reflect ideas and influences from as far away as India and Persia.
The hundreds of highly decorated chambers and sanctuaries of the Mogao caves bear witness to a time of cultural, political, and economic interchange, and recall a city that was a vibrant meeting place for traders, artists, and scholars. The murals and sculptures owe their existence to people who followed some of the best human instincts: openness to the unknown and an inclination to meet, connect, and create. Then or now, these values reflect a world guided by curiosity, empathy, trust, and a commitment to the results of unexpected collaboration. It’s no coincidence that, just weeks earlier, my colleagues in the Silk Road Ensemble spent several days collaborating at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, sharing their own interpretations of the Cave Temple exhibition with a new audience.
When we created Silkroad 18 years ago, we wanted the organization to represent the same ideas embodied in the caves – to foster artistic endeavors that reflect universal human values and impact society. Over the past few years, we have been building programs that train musicians, students, and educators in the same ideas, and we hope each of them will go on to seed exploration, creativity, and empathy around the world.
This is a mission that gives me great joy. I smile when I consider a society shaped by the type of radical cultural collaboration that filled the caves at Dunhuang, and that audiences tell us they hear when the Silk Road Ensemble performs. It is a world in which the practice of empathy could lead to a more harmonious future.
I invite you to take a few minutes to see some of the results of this collaboration, and to help us envision what might come next.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Yo-Yo Ma