Stacey Krim

Curator of the Cello Music Collection at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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An absolutely gorgeous picture of Elizabeth Cowling, founder of the UNC Greensboro #cello Music Collection.

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Found in Janos Starker's collection.

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Janos Starker and Menahem Pressler. It's always a little weird for me to see Pressler with a #cellist who is not Bernard Greenhouse, but I think we can all agree Starker is acceptable too. There are some fabulous Starker-Pressler performances n YouTube.

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A few notes from #cellist Martha Gerschefski on the Dvorak Concerto. Not only does she have copies with her own annotations, but also notes she took while studying Dvorak with Luigi Silva and Andre Navarra.

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#Cellist Janos Starker offering advice to students during a master class.

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Newspaper photo of a young Christine Walevska. She certainly did make it to the concert stage. #cello #cellist

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#Cellists, you will all be relieved to know that even Lynn Harrell had to annotate his sheet music of the Rococo Variations too.

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A photograph of the great #cello pedagogue, Margaret Rowell, in her youth. #celllist

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Just a photo of #cellist Janos Starker, staring into your eyes dreamily while lounging on a diving board.

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Ennio Bolognini - cellist, composer, conductor, professional boxer, pilot, flight instructor, gambler, and the classiest gardener ever.

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@GossipDudeGoss1 @song_of_lark @ClassicalMel @fountainofharp @classicalbeat @amanda_d_piano @FusuAna @vollmotiviert @KateStantonSing @EleonorBindman @moving_classics @charusurimusic @luteweb @LucyCQ Here are the listings in WorldCat: https://t.co/1dP9Acrib8

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When asked "Who are the top five greatest cellists currently alive?" ChatGPT answered 1) Yo-Yo Ma 2) Rostropovich 3) du Pré 4) Mischa Maisky 5) Sol Gabetta 🫤

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I was playing with ChatGPT last night to see how it would do with cello research (see more on Facebook. When asked "Who do you think are the top five greatest cellists?" ChatGPT answered 1) Casals 2)Rostropovich 3) Yo-Yo Ma 4) du Pré 5) Fournier

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#violalife

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What may be a messy box to some can be a treasure for an archivist. We just received a donation of the teaching materials and personal papers of #cello pedagogues Margaret Rowell and Nicholas Anderson.

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Hello everyone, it was a very busy academic year, but I am back with more fun and interesting material from the UNCG #Cello Music Collection. I am starting the summer off with this fabulous photograph from one of Janos Starker's scrapbooks.

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Just when I think I've seen everything -- this is the first time I have ever seen filled out crossword puzzles as packing paper.

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I am not certain that there is a greater testament to the love and power of music than Varga's description of what he was willing to endure in order to spend a few moments of beauty listening to the symphony from which he was torn away perform Debussy.

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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a particularly relevant day for the UNCG Cello Music Collection, as we hold the collections of a few Holocaust survivors, including Lev Aronson and Laszlo Varga...

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The second photo features a quote describing a particularly heartbreaking scene described by Laszlo Varga during an oral history conducted in 2011...