The "One Cellist" game

[Victor Eijkhout]

So last night I saw and heard Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, which was
great, mostly because of the presence of Kayhan Kalhor and Wu Man. Then
I realized that those are well-known enough that I have more than one CD
by each, but they are the only kamanche & pipa players I could mention.

So I came up with the "If you have to know just one xyz player,
it's...." game. Let's call it the "One Cellist" game: if you have to
know just one cello player, it's Yo Yo Ma.

And then I thought of a refinement of this game: let's introduce right
and wrong answers.

Cello. Wrong answer: Yo Yo Ma. Right answer: Jacqueline Dupre or Pablo
Casals.

Flute. Wrong answer: James Galway, right answer: Jean-Pierre Rampal.
(snob version: wrong answer: Jean-Pierre Rampal, right answer: Aurele
Nicolet or Marcel Moyse)

Who wants to play?

PIano. Wrong answer: Lang Lang, right answer: Alfred Brendel.

Victor.

--
Victor Eijkhout -- eijkhout at tacc utexas edu

[RVG]

Victor Eijkhout a écrit :

> So last night I saw and heard Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, which was
> great, mostly because of the presence of Kayhan Kalhor and Wu Man. Then
> I realized that those are well-known enough that I have more than one CD

> by each, but they are the only kamanche& pipa players I could mention.

>
> So I came up with the "If you have to know just one xyz player,
> it's...." game. Let's call it the "One Cellist" game: if you have to
> know just one cello player, it's Yo Yo Ma.
>
> And then I thought of a refinement of this game: let's introduce right
> and wrong answers.
>
> Cello. Wrong answer: Yo Yo Ma. Right answer: Jacqueline Dupre or Pablo
> Casals.
>
> Flute. Wrong answer: James Galway, right answer: Jean-Pierre Rampal.
> (snob version: wrong answer: Jean-Pierre Rampal, right answer: Aurele
> Nicolet or Marcel Moyse)
>
> Who wants to play?
>
> PIano. Wrong answer: Lang Lang, right answer: Alfred Brendel.
>

Piano: ra Claudio Arrau or Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli or Daniel Barenboim
Violin: wa Itzhak Perlman ra Nathan Milstein or David Oistrakh
Conductor: wa Karajan ra Bernstein ;)
Cello: wa Rostropovitch ra Dupré or Tortelier
French orchestral music: wa Karajan ra Michel Plasson
British OM: wa Barbirolli ra Beecham

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[Evil Nigel]

RVG wrote:

The 'right' answer to any particular category must by necessity be a
generalist, whereas my preferences vary according to the nature,
nationality and even the specific piece of the music.

Evil Nigel