He continued his studies with the eminent cellist Emanuel Feuermann.
The eminent cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich wrote to the editors of Pravda, Izvestia, and other leading newspapers praising the writer.
In 1983, feeling adventurous and a little carried away, the eminent cellist Aldo Parisot, a respected professor at the Yale School of Music, started a new student ensemble, an all-cello chamber orchestra.
That was merely one of his abundant opinions on all manner of things, including conductors (Mr. Starker had enduring, well-publicized feuds over musical matters with Eugene Ormandy and Herbert von Karajan) and other eminent cellists.
The eminent Russian-born cellist Mischa Maisky played Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," a piece that can often sound gloomy but here benefited mightily from the rhythmic and tonal variety Mr. Maisky brought to the score.
Mischa Maisky, the eminent Latvian-born Israeli cellist, provided an ideally soulful center of attention in Tchaikovsky's Nocturne in D minor, originally a solo piano piece.
Valentin Erben, the cellist of the eminent Alban Berg Quartet, had never played in a professional orchestra before joining in 2004.
She collaborated with the violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern, the pianist Rudolf Serkin and the cellist Pablo Casals, among other eminent musicians.
California's constitution was only scrubbed of anti-Chinese discrimination in 1952.The less formal forms of discrimination lasted a few decades more, recalls John Chen, the boss of a technology company and chairman of the Committee of 100, a group of eminent Chinese-Americans such as the architect I.M. Pei and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Yo-Yo Ma
Fred Sherry, the cellist and the society's former artistic director, joins the eminent and excellent quartet and Paul Neubauer, the violist, in the sextet; while current director David Shifrin takes the clarinet line, which Brahms wrote for a musician he described as "the best wind player that I know".
Two Emelin members still rule the roost -- the pianist Efrem Briskin serving as artistic director, the cellist David Krieger as executive director -- but they have gathered an eminent faculty around them, including the violinist Aaron Rosand, the cellist Nathaniel Rosen, the clarinetist Julian Milkis and the pianist Vladimir Viardo.
