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Yo-Yo Ma : Grammy award-winning cellist
The famed Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma was a music prodigy, performing for paying audiences at the tender age of five. Ma has built a career on the exploration of many types of music and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Through engaging narrative, full-color photos, and thoughtful direct quotations, readers of this biography will be inspired by Ma s never-ending drive to stretch the boundaries of his creativity. Bibliography, Biographies, Black-and-White Photographs, Detailed Table of Contents, Full-Color Photographs, Glossary, Index, Sidebars, Timelines, Websites, Chapter Notes.
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Virtual bedside concerts for patients with COVID-19: a trio of perspectives
This patient with COVID has been sick for several weeks and is not doing well. He's paralyzed and sedated on the ventilator. His son has been having a hard time with this and likes the idea of you playing music for his dad.\" I feel the weight of this opportunity and dial into his room. Silence. The whir of a machine. An occasional rustle. But mostly silence. Before I begin playing \"Sun Up,\" I ask him to picture the sun rising over a calm lake. I want him to know that this is an entirely personalized concert. Even though he cannot respond, his silence is not emptiness. It's quite the opposite. I lift my bow, inhale, and let the first note sing with warm vibrato. The sound carries from my home to his hospital bed thousands of miles away. To the soundtrack of the cellist, our team explores the pains and delights of being a doctor in this moment.
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Strings attached
\"Brielle and Tawni have played cello side by side in orchestras since they were nine years old. Brielle has always played second chair to Tawni's first, and she's been happy with that arrangement. When Tawni is injured, Brielle suddenly finds herself principal cellist. Not only does that mean she'll be thrust into the spotlight, but it also means she is now leader of the cello section. Brielle is terrified. Is she good enough? Will the other musicians accept her? What if she screws up? Despite her fears, Brielle rises to the occasion. Her cello skills, and her leadership skills, improve as she grows into her new role. But just as Brielle is beginning to feel confident, Tawni returns. And she wants her job back. If Brielle steps down now, she'll lose her place in the spotlight. If she doesn't, her friendship could be in jeopardy.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Las trayectorias de Pablo Casals en Puerto Rico
Emilio F. Ruiz, historiador, marinero, arqueólogo y experto en el pensamiento español del siglo XX, soriano, cumple una vez más con la línea de investigación que le sugirió su maestro y amigo Julián Marías a principios de los años 90: organizar y dar coherencia a las excepcionales fuentes documentales del archivo de Jaime Benítez en la institución universitaria puertorriqueña. De esos tesoros vemos el nacimiento de esta obra, que en buena medida es hermana de La continuidad creadora (2017), editada por el Archivo Histórico del BBVA. Una de las máximas de Marías, para entender a la persona, era ser capaz de vislumbrar la coherencia entre sus trayectorias biográficas. En este libro apreciamos esa cualidad tanto en su autor como en Casals, su esposa, Marta Montañez, Jaime Benítez e Inés Mendoza.
Otro de los aciertos del escritor es presentarnos los papeles relevantes que las mujeres han tenido y siguen teniendo en la historia, frente a las campañas propagandistas que ciertos grupos de interés llevan lanzando en los últimos años ofreciendo una imagen sesgada. Aquí vemos a Marta Montañez y a Inés Mendoza como ejecutivas clave del Festival de Prades, del Festival de Puerto Rico, de las giras de Casals y de las orquestas y músicos a los que aquél impulsó por América, Europa y Asia. Ellas fueron decisivas en la creación de una fecunda institución como es el Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico para que los niños y niñas de la isla y de otras latitudes desde los años cincuenta hasta hoy amen este noble arte, lo practiquen y los más competentes y trabajadores se ganen la vida con esa vocación. Esas dos insignes damas bajo el paraguas de la figura comprometida de Casals lucharon porque trabajadores puertorriqueños con problemas laborales pudieran salir adelante. [Texto de la editorial]
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Too many cats
A woman's cello playing draws all of the neighborhood cats into her yard, where they wreak havoc before starting to make their own kind of music.
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At Auschwitz, Cello in Hand: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch/A Auschwitz, un violoncelle a la main: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
The breadth of experience that Anita Lasker-Wallfisch can attest to is almost unbelievable, yet one knows when hearing her talk that it is fact. I interviewed her in London, UK in January 2016 and in several subsequent meetings in some of the most surprising conversations I have ever had. Lasker-Wallfisch is an Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen survivor who became a founding member of the English Chamber Orchestra and has since toured the world performing. It was not without trepidation that I asked her about some of the traumatic times she faced: being imprisoned in Germany as a young girl, deportation to the worst killing centre of the Holocaust, and rebuilding her life after liberation. The reasoning behind her insistence of the importance of music comes not from the fact that her cello-playing saved her life, but the conclusions she drew from it that apply to anyone fortunate enough to learn music.
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Yo-Yo Ma : classical musician
\"While most people know Yo-Yo Ma as the most famous cellist in the world, they may not know that he actually started out as a violin player until the four-year-old told his parents he wanted to play a big instrument. Much more than a uniquely talented classical musician, Ma has written an Academy Award-winning film score, played for eight presidents, and appeared on the Simpsons\"--Amazon.com.
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The angle of trunk rotation and symmetry of a lower limb loading in musicians of a symphony orchestra in Poland: a pilot study concerning instrument-specific results
Background: The study aimed to evaluate the angle of trunk rotation (ATR) and symmetry of lower limb loading in professional musicians. Material and Methods: A total of 60 instrumentalists were examined: cellists, violinists and musicians playing wind instruments. The scoliometer examination was used to assess trunk asymmetry. The angle of trunk rotation was measured at segment: Th1-Th4, Th5-Th12, and Th12-L4. The maximum value (ATR max) and the sum of three rotations (STR) were calculated. Two scales were used to assess the symmetry of lower limb loading. Loading symmetry index (LSI) of the lower limb was calculated. Results: Violinists have the highest mean values of ATR, ATR max, STR and LSI and musicians playing wind instruments have the lowest mean values. In the group of violinists and musicians playing wind instruments, a positive correlation was found between playing experience and ATR Th1-Th4. Conclusions: The body position during playing violin and cello may increase the angle of trunk rotation and the lower limb loading's asymmetry. Key words: occupational diseases, scoliosis, violinists, cellists, angle of trunk rotation, scoliometer
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Giant pumpkin suite
Twelve-year-old Rose Brutigan has grown seven inches in the last eight months. She's always been different from her twin brother, Thomas, but now she towers over him in too many ways. The gap in their interests continues to widen as well. Musically talented Rose is focused on winning the upcoming Bach Cello Suites Competition, while happy-go-lucky Thomas has taken up the challenge of growing a giant pumpkin in the yard of their elderly neighbor, Mr. Pickering. But when a serious accident changes the course of the summer, Rose is forced to grow and change in ways she never could have imagined. Along the way there's tap dancing and classic musicals, mail-order worms and neighborhood-sourced compost, fresh-squeezed lemonade, the Minnesota State Fair--and an eclectic cast of local characters that readers will fall in love with.--Provided by Publisher.
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In Memoriam Yuli Turovsky (7 juin 1939 - 15 janvier 2013)/In Memory of Yuli Turovsky (June 7, 1939 - January 15, 2013)
The author eulogizes and briefly profiles educator, artist and cellist Yuli Turovsky, who passed away on January 15, 2013, aged 73.
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