Once a year, my cello teacher gathers her students all together for a workshop with Eugene Friesen, a contemporary improvisational cellist, who plays Bach as readily as Brazilian jazz, transforms himself, with masks, into a squirrel sneaking into the house to play the cello, or Casals playing Bach, and imitates the sounds of a humback whale. While he's in town, he will play at a coffeehouse and entertain at one of the elementary schools, as well as join us for an hour-long workshop.
Eugene is coming next week, so 22 cellists of varying ages and sizes got together tonight (in a rustic community hall near the water) to practice three pieces that we will be playing for him: French Folk Song (of course), To a Wild Rose, and a Happy Birthday variation my teacher commissioned for her cello's 100th birthday. It was fun; it's always glorious when so many cellists play together!
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6 comments:
I love it! How about 76 cellos?
How wonderful! It sounds like such fun to get together with other cellists.
Maybe you could send a few my way. We could use more than 3 cellists in our pops orchestra.
76 cellos! There might be 76 cellists from one end of Cape Cod to the other. Hmmm, maybe we can stage some sort of a cello party. I've always thought this would be an nice place for a cello camp. :-)
Perhaps we do have a lot of cellists, relatively speaking. When I was in a community string ensemble a few years ago, there were six of us.
Where does one find "To A Wild Rose"?
Hi Marisa, we're playing a cello quartet version from "More Cellobrations," published by the Enterprising Rabbit, but I think this piece should be readily available in the folk literature.
You're always turning me on to new music I've never heard of :)
My husband says I'm too young to know about this famous tune. Talk about a back handed compliment :)
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