“I am grateful that their unyielding passion is completely allowed to flow through their delicate fingers and wrists onto their lovely instruments, sharing this on a level which is beyond words, resonating with one's deepest soul.” MusicCrossoverCelloClassicalCellists2cellos Book:CELLOGIRLS: Identity and Transformation in 2CELLOS Fan Culture Source: CELLOGIRLS: Identity and Transformation in 2CELLOS Fan Culture
“My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.” MenTeacherGrewGrew UpRosePatientIncludingPeersNurturingAdmiringCellists Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.” FatherFourGenerationsOutstandingViolinistCellistsFour Generations Author:Leonard Slatkin
“Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.” MenDoeHas BeensHeardMastersEqualMusicianExtraordinaryGreat MenComposerImpressedGreat MusicStatureConductorGreat MusicianCellists Author:Albert Schweitzer
“I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.” InstrumentsJealousTraveledViolinistCellists Author:Christian McKay
“For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.” YearsPlayTwelveEntiretyViolinistCellists Author:Pablo Casals
“What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.” PeopleGivingHumansI CanInterestCommunityStreetsRocksGiving UpConnectionsActivismStorytellingMaking MoneyMore MoneyHuman ConnectionShared ExperiencesCellists Author:Ben Sollee
“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.” WayYearsArtWholeTogetherJobsMotherNextFatherSidesDoorsNew YorkBrotherMomMarriedScientistMovedNeighborMy BrotherDancerChicagoMy SisterSymphonyPianistWhole FamilyNext Door NeighborsCellists Author:Jason Graae
“When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be a cellist, but I wasn't really sure if I wanted to be a composer, or think about - I was just interested in the ideas behind music, I was interested in mathematics.” IfsThinkingWantImportantIdeasDoneWantedSchoolBehindsHigh SchoolMathematicsComposerCellists Author:Tod Machover
“Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy, who is touring and doing concerts. She's very young and has a one-night fling with an Irish rocker, played Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who is also a really talented musician.” PlayYoungNightFallMusicianConcertsTouringOne NightAugustFlingProdigiesRockersCellistsTalented Musicians Author:Keri Russell
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.” BookSoulFeelingsCoursesExistenceCreationPagesNotesSizeYour SoulTemperThoughts And FeelingsCellists Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.” KnowsWorldChildrenEndsMiracleMy ChildrenEnd Of The WorldBeginningChild DevelopmentCellists Author:Pablo Casals
“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.” IfsMenLoveLifeShouldCountryLife IsMusicianBordersBrotherhoodLife And LoveSplendidCapacity To LoveCountry LoveLove Your Neighbor As YourselfCellists Author:Pablo Casals
“The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.” BeautifulWomenBeautyMusicalBeautiful WomenSlenderMusical InstrumentsSuppleWomen BeautyCellists Author:Pablo Casals