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My kids' music teacher is a musician in the local symphony, and she arranged for a bunch of school kids -- and us -- to have a backstage tour, and we got to listen to the symphony and guest soloist practice for an upcoming performance.  Cool.  (I'm starting to notice a certain look my kids give me when I take their picture and they know I'm going to blog about it.

De Pre had to stop playing at 28 and died at 42 of MS. Here she is playing the last movement of the Elgar cello Concerto - foreshadowing her life. It seems to me that she is making love to her cello and is channeling Elgar. Quite breathtaking. How wonderful YouTube is to have so many great performances like this.

Seriously, few things are easier to catch photographic beauty than a girl playing the cello. UPDATE: If you enjoyed these shots of mine, you might also check out Lauren’s pictures of Hannah over at her blog.

William Perry, William Schuman and Virgil Thomson share several important traits. They are all 20th American composers (though Perry is stil alive, which makes him a 21st century composer), and all have written works for solo cello and orchestra. This podcast introduces threse three beautiful but still unknown works.

For our 2008-09 arts preview, we profiled five area artists who make all or part of their living from their art.

When I see the name Joe Wright, the first thought that comes into my mind is “Event Film”. It started with Pride & Prejudice which Wright made his own even though he had the odds stacked high in front of him. Can anything really be as good as the BBC version? Likely not but Wright’s attempt was great in its own way.

It’s for sale on t’interweb. Who would have thunk it? The cello, which is almost 300 years old and is insured for £1.4 million, is one of about 60 surviving cellos made by the great instrument maker. Auctioneers expect that it will break records.

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Zoe Keating is a remarkable cellist that uses sampling in order to “play with past versions of herself.” With her Mac laptop, haunting loops of music emerge as she uses her feet to shift, start and stop samples, striking on the instrument itself to create percussive rhythms.

I haven’t had alot of time to post lately, but luckily Jacuzzi Killers will be bringing on a new writer next week.  Right now he is in rehab trying to kick a nasty faberge egg addiction, but he’ll be with us soon.  Until then though, I wanted to post 2 tracks that I’ve really been into since I got