"Spent the fortnight gone in the music room……" — David Mitchell
"Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late."
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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
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No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
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The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
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