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The cello is said to have been Rachmaninoff's favorite string instrument. In his lushly romantic Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor he wrote sweepingly lyrical lines that unfold against a virtuoso piano part. The cellist Gautier Capucon and the pianist Gabriela Montero, both passionate musicians, reveled in the work's Golden Age Romanticism during their recital on Saturday evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The cello is now so firmly established as a solo instrument that it's easy to forget that it was mostly a bit player until the 19th century. Boccherini, a virtuoso cellist, was dedicated to advancing the cause, upgrading the cello's status from bass line accompanist to equal partner. He wrote at least 10 concertos and more than 40 sonatas for the instrument. Riccardo Muti conducted the New York Philharmonic and Carter Brey, its principal cellist, in the orchestra's first performance of Boccherini's Cello Concerto in D (G. 479) on Wednesday evening at Avery Fisher Hall. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THERE is nothing quite like squeezing a $1.5 million cello between your knees and trying to make a mellifluous sound come out of it. I had the rare privilege as I took on the challenge on the campus of the Perlman Music Program in Shelter Island, N.Y. It was a shimmering summer morning, and I was perched on the edge of a chair inside a clapboard bungalow temporarily occupied by the cello's owner, Paul Katz, 66, a renowned cellist and instructor with a trim gray beard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I know that this is the fate of the modern New York parent, but after a year and a half I was tired of being the schlepper and the chaperone. I wanted to be a player. Every Tuesday night, I used to meet my son Judah when he got off his school bus on the Upper West Side, hand him his cello and walk with him to orchestra rehearsal at the Broadway Presbyterian Church at 114th Street and Broadway. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the recovery of the lost cello owned by cellist Yo-Yo Ma after a concert in New York City, New York, on October 16, 1999. How the instrument got lost; Details on how the police tracked the instrument.