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...Conductor and founder William Christie is generous to his instrumentalists, so organ, flute, horn and cello all get their moment in the spotlight....
...The setting, co-conceived by Tanowitz, Harriet Jung, Clifton Taylor and Reid Bartelme, features a circular plinth, an L-shaped catwalk and a long bench, all painted a dazzling swimming-pool blue....
...The album’s cover is a watercolour of the four musicians seated in a forest clearing, as if enjoying a safe-for-work “Déjeuner sur l’herbe”....
...The show music was played by two of the school’s students on piano and cello (Wednesday plays cello in the series) in bespoke Bora Aksu black jumpers with white collars, setting the mood for a monochrome...
...The whirlwind finale, though, was suitably rousing, with Ravel’s syncopated rhythms coming to the fore.Thank goodness, then, for Thierry Escaich’s Cello Concerto....
...One of the best is the concept store L’Eclaireur, which has a unique mix of clothing, furniture and ceramics....
...Trailing clouds of glory, semi-naked pale women soar across an airy sky: the figure of Astronomy measuring the heavens, Arithmetic scrolling numbers, Music with her cello, Dialectic in a helmet with black...
...The bittersweet tonalities of the cello are rarely heard in jazz. Great jazz bassists like Ron Carter and the late Oscar Pettiford have dabbled; specialist Hank Roberts leaves listeners wanting more....
...The album opens with the contrasting moods, Arabic scales and exemplary musicianship of “L’appel du Muezzin”....
...film archives, a daily Instagram detective trail “à la recherche des oeuvres disparues”, which unveils very early forgotten, lost or destroyed then reconstructed works — such as a spiky abstracted bird, “L’...
...And play he did; that “childlike joy” resulted in angular capes, jagged standing sleeves, frames-as-dresses and mock cellos-as-skirts....
...“People need to live an experience,” agrees Marco Campardo, co-founder of the Venetian design studio M-L-XL and the curator behind the forthcoming SEEDS show....
...Ciresa produces harmonic woods for violins, cellos and double basses, and the soundboards for pianos — Bluthner and Bechstein are among its customers....
...The strings could have been more dreamy in the second and third tableaux but blended nicely in the fifth, “Pour l’Egyptienne”, which portrays Egyptian courtesans....
...Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 opens with a cello on icy high harmonics, far above the violin, which enters muted, low....
...Nor did these players manage, in Rachmaninov’s Vocalise, or Arvo Pärt’s sparsely scored L’abbé Agathon, to simulate the delicacy of a piano accompaniment....
...Under Harry Bicket’s lively direction, each instrumentalist played as though personally responsible for the entire show, wringing out every ounce of drama: at one point during Act II, the cellos unleashed...
...Her graduation collection from Central Saint Martins, 2014, was awarded the L’Oréal Professionnel Talent Award....
...But L’arbre des songes, Dutilleux’s violin concerto, left a more lasting impression....
...Tod Machover’s Restructures for two pianos and electronics was as lush and playful as Heinz Holliger’s à plume éperdue for soprano, alto flute, cor anglais and cello was earnest....
...I studied piano and cello and did a lot of singing. I sang Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb — which we’re doing at Sadler’s Wells. “I’ve never forgotten it....
...hat, and there was bawdy, circus humour: belly dancers, poodles wearing ruffs, and a hairy, tattooed trombonist – naked but for a tight-fitting pair of boxer shorts – who set up shop next to an earnest cello...
...Formally trained in cello and schooled in composition, he switched to bass and jazz when he was 16 – the then segregated orchestras were not a career option....
...People say, “Oh, it’s much easier than handling a cello bow,” but it isn’t for me. John Eliot Gardiner taught me how to do it one evening, but I’d lost it by the next day....
...Or even Walken looking ever pastier as that hair mops over that cello head, making him resemble some picturesque, doomy longshanks out of a Daumier sketch....
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