How To Use Cellist In A Sentence
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This piece is not one of his best, although the cellist showed incredible skill on the unruly violoncello, managing to coax the best possible tone in spite of the instrument's limitations.
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Her two brothers are both cellists with well-known symphony orchestras.
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So the place to be Tuesday night for anyone interested in new music or the cello - or just innovative thinking in general - was St. Mary's Church in Foggy Bottom, where Uitti showed why she might be the most interesting cellist on the planet.
Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti gives virtuoso performance in D.C.
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The ensembles and the label are each the responsibility of Mr. Savall, a trained cellist, who has turned a youthful curiosity about the viola da gamba — an antique stringed instrument combining aspects of the cello and guitar, alternatively known as the viol — into a pan-musical enterprise.
Blurring Traditional Boundaries
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The competition is open to violoncellists of every nationality.
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This daunting, darkly astringent music was played in a superlative manner by cellist Marilyn De Olivera (a graduate of Indiana and Rice Universities).
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The other instrumental, ‘A Hymnal’, belongs to guest cellist Anna Fritz, whose portamento flights are the most sensual thing on the album.
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So, in desperation, the Italian orchestra handed the baton over to its own principal cellist.
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The cellist took up his bow, and drew across his instrument a few subdued notes of Bach.
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The concerto soloist, a distinguished cellist, made an incorrect entry, and there was some untidy wind playing.
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Casals greatly influenced later cellists with his technique, misicianship, and beautiful tone.
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To begin with, violinist Darren Lowe and cellist Blair Lofgren, now concertmaster and principal cello of the Orchestre symphonique de Quebec, respectively, are former members of the RSO (Lowe was RSO concertmaster during 1975-1976, while Lofgren played with the RSO during the 1990s.)
My preview of Trio Frontenac
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Seldom performed sequentially and together, they were taken up integrally in 1966 by a dissentient cellist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in an interpretation that changed the world's perception of Viennese sound.
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Intriguingly enough, you didn't try to make a big name for yourself as a cellist but kept your eye on a conducting career from the cello desk.
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On "San Bernardino," about a couple who give birth in a bathtub in a highway-side motel, cellist Erik Friedlander sent back a score that layered urgent pizzicato over a languid melodic line.
Rock Stories: Mountain Goats
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In January 1786, Boccherini had become court composer to the future king of Prussia, a good cellist.
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That makes the in-color onlooker the heteroclite, and the urbane aesthetic cellist the metroclite.
Heteroclite.
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Each was also accompanied by live musical improvisation from cellist, Anne Bourne.
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Cellist Darry Dolezal added, ‘You might consider changing your articulations then from tenutos to staccatos to get the effect you are after.’
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The seven compositions were performed between 1996 and 2000 by some of Germany's finest jazz and new-music players -- including trumpeter Axel Dorner, tubaist Melvyn Poore, cellist Michael Moser, and bassist Alexander Frangenheim -- on traditional acoustic instruments.
Chicago Reader
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In 1866 Grünfeld was appointed court violoncellist to King William of Prussia..
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LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT, by French horn player Jay Chadwick and pianist Sarah Strauss Himmelfarb, works by Bach; violinist Joel Ang, violist Cesse Ip, cellist Paul Marshall and pianist Stephen Bertino, works by Fauré; flutist Susan Brockman and pianist Stephen Bertino, works by Fauré and Dunhill. 3 p.m., the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.,
Alexandria and Arlington community events, Aug. 5-12, 2010
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The young cellist impressed enough during her masterclass to become the second award recipient that week.
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As I sang, I was prodded in the leg by the cellist's bow.
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He was bright and articulate, the son of a successful doctor and a concert cellist.
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Osvaldo Golijov's Mariel from 1999 for cello and marimba, an arresting work that floats and shimmers and sighs and dances -- Maya Beiser was the fine cellist, Tomoya Aomori the effortless marimbist.
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Casals greatly influenced later cellists with his technique, misicianship, and beautiful tone.
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A gifted young cellist disappears.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ensembles and the label are each the responsibility of Mr. Savall, a trained cellist, who has turned a youthful curiosity about the viola da gamba — an antique stringed instrument combining aspects of the cello and guitar, alternatively known as the viol — into a pan-musical enterprise.
Blurring Traditional Boundaries
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His compositions are remarkable well adapted to the instrument for which they are written and have achieved a well deserved popularity among violoncellists.
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His fragmentary scoring for choir and colouristic use of percussion elevates the solo cellist to high priest and turns the piece into a concerto.
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The funds can be used for travel, masterclasses or whatever else the young cellist sees fit.
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The Pro Arte Quartet (plus cellist Anthony Pini) contributes a C-major Quintet whose first two movements ensure the work's place in the empyrean.
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I saw him again at the masterclasses in Lübeck, where I accompanied the cellist from my piano trio.
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There is a peculiarly haunting quality to the sound, and the rapport between oboist and cellist testifies to the time they have spent working together.
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Born in 1896 in St. Petersburg, he was trained not only as a physicist but also as a cellist.
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A young woman descends the stairs from a low, curtained gallery to hand a sheet of music to a cellist waiting downstairs.
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In one movement we hear recordings of the musicians 'voices as they played their virtuosic solos: here was the French horn player who wished he was a clarinettist; the contra-bassoonist who adores playing "low notes all day long"; the cellist who says of the audience, "the more they listen, the better we play".
Michael Wolters sees into the minds of musicians
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Smith, almost blind, sat down and memorised the piano part; he was joined by the cellist Moray Welsh and James Clark, concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
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Getty Images Ballak é Sissoko, a Mali kora player, and French cellist Vincent Segal But not every act performing on the venue's three stages emphasizes hot, polyrhythmic dance numbers.
Warm Up to a Meeting of Two Classical Minds
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Rose shows his roots in Bloch's ‘Hebrew Rhapsody,’ but he never distorts the music by imitating cantorial wailings, as some cellists have done in this work.
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Reed and bassist Josh Abrams lay down propulsive grooves, over which vibist Jason Adasiewicz floats spiky harmonic patterns; this gives alto saxophonist Greg Ward and cellist Tomeka Reid plenty to work with once they break out of their unison melodic lines and turn to improvising.
Chicago Reader
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Casals greatly influenced later cellists with his technique, misicianship, and beautiful tone.
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A high spot was definitely a young cellist, Stefan Handjiev, in National Radio's Christmas Concert - an absolute show-stopper.
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This Finnish trio of cellists return with a driving and beautiful collection of songs featuring soaring string work underlaid by metal drumming and pre-programming to give the songs a searing edge.
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We hear the cellist playing cymbal and mark tree and the violinist playing triangle and drum.
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Husa's balance of austere folk-cultural strains with a modernist aesthetic -- clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, violist Steve Tenenbom and cellist Marcy Rosen gave an authoritative performance -- was deeply influenced by Bartók.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing
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The cellist took up his bow, and drew across his instrument a few subdued notes of Bach.
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Perhaps it was the overzealous con brio on the part of cellist Andrés Díaz: maybe there are a lot of sforzandi in the score, but from where I sat I heard more percussive bowstrikes than pure tone more often than I would have liked.
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Though an old man at the time, he was an accomplished violoncellist, and a patient teacher.
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However, to avoid an unseemly political spat, both Kiely and McEllistrim have been selected.
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At one point, the cellist is required to play a passage involving all four color effects simultaneously.
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Previous owners of various manuscripts in the collection include French pianist Alfred Cortot; cellist August Franchomme, a friend of Chopin's; Alma Mahler, the composer's widow; and Russian choreographer and ballet dancer Léonide Massine.
Scores of Scores, From Mozart to Ravel
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As well as a drummer and a pair of keyboard players, there was a violinist and a cellist.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cellist's bowing was very sensitive .
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It seemed suitable for a lovely 32-year-old classically trained cellist.
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On his latest release, The Goat Rodeo Sessions Sony Masterworks, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma is joined by three string virtuosos--mandolinist Chris Thile, fiddler Stuart Duncan and bassist Edgar Meyer--for an exploration of Americana music.
Mike Ragogna: The Goat Rodeo and Lindi Ortega Video Exclusives, Plus Chatting With Yo-Yo Ma and Mason Jennings
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Yo-Yo Ma, probably the world's greatest living cellist, is enjoying a level of popularity almost unprecedented for a classical musician in the electronic age.
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I am pleased to inform you of the publication of my new book of art entitled ‘The violoncellist’.
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Only a great cellist can convey the lyricism of this music as Starker does.
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Pablo Casals, the world-famous cellist, who chose life-long exile from his native Spain because of the fascist dictator who ruled the beloved country of his birth, said this: "My cello is my weapon; I choose where I play, when I play, and before whom I play.
Theodore Bikel: Legitimizing an Obstacle to Peace
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The distinguished cellist and educator Claudio Jaffee played his continuo line with artistic authority.
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White SeaWhite Sea is the electro creation of L.A.-based songstress and cellist/pianist Morgan Kibby, former czarina of The Romanovs.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 197
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Rostropovich was long considered the world's foremost cellist.
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Sorry to hear about your back pain, which is not of course unknown among cellists (and probably even worse among violinists and violists, given the bizarre way they hold their instruments of torture.)
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Now the irrepressible cellist has ventured out on the longest limb yet, embracing musical multiculturalism on an unprecedented scale.
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Kushner: Throughout the Ecstatic Music Festival, women have played a prominent role, from composers such as Missy Mazzoli, Merrill Garbus, Olga Bell and yourself to performers like cellist Clarice Jensen, flutist Alex Sopp, violist Nadia Sirota, and vocalist Shara Worden, not to mention many others.
Daniel J. Kushner: Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #5: Sarah Kirkland Snider and Rob Moose
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It was Pete, a cellist who played in the original baroque style on a handmade replica of a Stradivarius.
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Five cellists, twelve violinists, five violists, and two bassists.
