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• n  someone who plays a violoncello

• For Maestro Toscanini, himself a onetime cellist and then the Philharmonic conductor, Wallenstein soon became teacher's pet.
• The classic Moscow of the Romanovs, Leo Tolstoy, ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich is well known around the world: The Kremlin , the Bolshoi .
• Among musicians, cellists are known as incurable sentimentalists.

• violoncellist

News & Articles

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• New Albany cellist to perform June 15
  The OPEN Art Gallery in Louisville will feature visual artist Louisa Kleinert and musical artist Jon Silpayamanant at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 15. Silpayamanant, a New Albany-based cellist, composer and multi-instrumentalist, will bring several of his musical projects to the gallery Saturday.
  June 12, 2013 - Evening News and Tribune
• Award-winning cellist Paul Olefsky dies at 87
  AUSTIN, Texas, June 9 (UPI) -- Award-winning cellist and University of Texas music teacher Paul Olefsky died in Austin after a long illness, his wife said. He was 87.
  June 9, 2013 - UPI
• Cellist, longtime UT educator Olefsky dies at 87
  The life of a renowned cellist and longtime educator at the University of Texas will be celebrated Monday in a free memorial concert at the Butler School of Music.
  June 9, 2013 - Austin American-Statesman

Quotes

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• Chad Hurley in The Futon Critic
  In all your life and creative work you have many times shown the truth that art and morality together supplement each other and constitute a single goal. In all of the world you are known not only as a brilliant cellist and gifted conductor but as... Vladimir Putin http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEq0F6D8mAvzROamVW8urBf2pIjsw International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/27/arts/EU-A-E-MUS-Russia-Rostropovich.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGLGsCRL8G8mA1fQPgisvMl7QFRuw Mar 27, 2007 16082 22340 cellist From the classical cellist to the emerging rock star, YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans," said Chad Hurley, CEO and co-founder, YouTube.
• Lorin Maazel in American Digital Networks (press release)
  I am delighted to be returning to Asia with the Philharmonic. It is always a great honor to present this Orchestra to audiences around the world,said New York Philharmonic Music Director Lorin Maazel. "Cellist Alisa Weilerstein will be...