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2021-01-08T12:55:00+00:00 Cellist George Neikrug, who died in 2019 at the age of 100, was a celebrated performer and orchestral principal. However, his skills as a pedagogue were second to none, writes University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Benjamin Whitcomb, who has gathered personal recollections George Neikrug The following is an extract from an article in The Strad’s January 2021 issue remembering the cellist and pedagogue George Neikrug.  To read in full, click here to sub...

Narek Hakhnazaryan © Marco Borggreve Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme has been with me almost since I started learning the cello. I was around six or seven when my father came home with a videotape of Yo-Yo Ma playing the piece with the Leningrad Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov. It was the first time I’d ever watched a performance like that – it was a special gala concert for the 150th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth, with Itzhak Perlman and Jessye Norman also in atten...

A new again. out comes the fall so for me we have the rococo variations for all the cusp of this decisive period he was always a very fluent composer who could perhaps bracket off his emotional quandaries and attend to the task of creativity. yes sir i was insane and only now that i have more or less recovered do i realize what i did to my ranged state the person who in may had the idea of marrying and to nina who wrote a complete opera in june as if it were nothing who married in july who in se...