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ollec
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(10/5/00 5:34:08 pm)
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"The
Frontiers of Technique"
I was reading an essay by
Frances-Marie Uitti and about modern cello technique and these
excerpts caught my eye:
"June Paik wrote provocative works for
Charlotte Moorman...requiring tiny video monitors to be strapped to
her naked breasts. In other pieces she was required to play the
cello underwater in a giant fish bowl."
"composers required
cellists to narrate texts, shriek, and sometimes even
snort"
"Posturo...is one of the more daring works that exploit
the cello's size and female form theatrically...the instrument...is
required to be played in all positions, even up-side down..."
She
also talks about playing with the stick of the bow, playing with
electronic tapes going in the backround, and using the cello as a
percusion instrument, among other things.
Will someone avert a
bout of serious depression and tell me that those are just weirdos
and most cellist would never dream of doing anything like that? It
just seems to me to totally go against the spirit of the instrument
and to show it tremendous disrespect and I DON'T LIKE
IT!
By the way, this is from a legitmate source
(Cambridge Companion to the Cello-the rest of which is great and I
thank whoever recommended it.)
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String4tetCellist
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(10/5/00 5:47:43 pm)
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Um...no
Those are just weirdos and most
cellists would never dream of doing anything like that!!...
(just
what you asked for)
God, that's one of the most disgusting
and immoral things I've ever heard. I mean, if a person truly loves
music and truly loves the cello, how could one possibly treat it
that way? I know that because I love music, I could never play
something like Glass...but play with the instrument upside down, or
underwater? If some manager told me that was what I had to do to be
successful, I wouldn't buy it. And if I even began to buy it, I'd go
home and listen to my record of the Schubert Cello Quintet and know
that there was no reason for it. If music ever comes to the point
where it is true that tricks must be done to make people pay
attention...I'll just go home and put the cello away and dream of
when it wasn't that way.
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Laura
Wichers
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(10/5/00 7:02:09 pm)
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Re:
"The Frontiers of Technique"
I only know of one classical
musician who has played underwater, that being Charles Pikler,
principal violist with the CSO. I myself would never even consider
doing any of the things you mentioned.
-Laura
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42
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(10/5/00 8:22:23 pm)
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Re:
"The Frontiers of Technique"
I think the cellist in question also
played a piece on a cello made of ice...... I'm not sure about that,
anybody know fo sure.
BTW... whats wrong with a concerto for
topless cellist??? 
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