Set to excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Solo Suites for Cello, " the dance features what Mr. Taylor sometimes calls his "scribbles" of movement, as the cast's five women and three men ride wildly or serenely into, over and through Bach's sonorous accompaniment.
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Among the most notable of his more than 150 recordings, the Bach Suites for Solo Cello won a Grammy Award in 1998.
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We decided to play the repeated notes like a string pizzicato and David added a flowing part for the cello to connect the chord changes with the static expression of the recorders.
But here, as with a segment called "Riffs on Agon" (which took inspirations of movement and music from Igor Stravinsky's "Agon, " a 1957 ballet by George Balanchine) and with the world premiere of "Orbit" (a composition for solo cello by Philip Glass), Lil Buck looked somewhat constrained held back by efforts based more on set choreography than improvisation.
Composer Paul Moravec has been awarded the Pulitzer for Tempest Fantasy, a chamber work written for piano, violin, cello and clarinet.
And, it turns out, of building a rather nice recital venue too, the perfect space for a concert of Bach solo cello music, accompanied by some spectacular views of the Norwegian coastline.
Mr. Gerhardt, who checked the condition of the cello upon arriving at Dulles from Germany, believes a TSA agent at Dulles removed the cello and bow, rechecked for the flight to Chicago, and didn't properly seat them in the case.
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Nathaniel, who's incoherent and delusional at times, can also be perfectly elegant, and never is he more balanced than when he's sawing away for hours at a time on violin or cello.
For his first solo effort as both librettist and composer, the Brooklyn-based artist (who also performs as Pierre in "Natasha"), took pages from Tolstoy's text and whittled them down, cutting characters, adding lines, and composing for an orchestra that includes clarinet, glockenspiel, cello and guitar.
Beginning with organ, piano and cello, this pocket orchestra provides a nice bed for singer Adam Bentley's artfully unsteady vocals.
When Yo-Yo Ma took his first cello lesson, there wasn't a chair short enough for him, so he sat on three phone books instead.
From Hanoi Rocks in the 1980s to Children of Bodom, HIM and the cello-driven Apocalyptica, Finnish metal has made an international name for itself.
The charity YoungMinds says research it carried out with the Cello marketing group found that four in 10 young people do not know where to go for help and that one in three parents would not seek professional help if their child was self-harming.
And she kept sawing away at the cardboard cello, playing along with her musician parents until they finally gave in and signed her up for lessons.
Debbie Elliott gets a crash course in what a top-flight musician looks for in his instrument... in this case, a guitar that can sometimes sound more like a cello.
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