CELLO STUDENTS BOW TO LEGEND'S INSTRUCTIONS; MASTER'S CLASS HELD IN T.O.Byline: Gloria Gonzales Daily News Staff Writer Once the violinist and the cellist stopped playing, the 40 or so musicians gathered in Samuelson Chapel at California Lutheran University Mission statement The University's mission statement is as follows: "California Lutheran University is a diverse, scholarly community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies. leaned forward as the lesson began. ``You're so busy playing with your hands and fingers - you forget to use your arms!'' Janos Starker said, lifting the elbow of 17-year-old cellist Preston Geeting's bow arm. ``This is the problem . . . you make the short notes . . . what is that sound? It is a sound that doesn't exist!'' Starker chided, pointing at the Handel sheet music on the stand in front of Geeting. The 72-year-old famed cellist, Janos Starker, spent the next 30 minutes analyzing the performance of the two young musicians attending a daylong master's class with the legendary musician. The two young players, Geeting of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, and Maia Jasper of Westlake Village, repeated the same four or five bars over and over, as Starker coached them on everything from tempo to hand position. ``Move your arm and let your hand follow,'' Starker told Geeting, demonstrating lengthening lengthening (lengkˑ·the·ning), n the use of various massage or muscle energy techniques to relax and stretch muscle and connective tissue. strokes of the bow across the cello's strings. ``Move your arm and never mind your fingers . . . it is like a pendulum motion,'' Starker said, demonstrating a semicircular semicircular shaped like a half-circle. semicircular canals the passages in the inner ear, in the bony labyrinth concerned with the sense of balance, especially the detection of movement. swoop swoop v. swooped, swoop·ing, swoops v.intr. 1. To move in a sudden sweep: The bird swooped down on its prey. 2. of the bow across the strings. ``Never attack with a vertical motion . . . always like a pendulum.'' The two young players were among about 40 professional and student musicians traveling from throughout the Southland to attend a master's class with Starker. Many will also attend a chamber music recital Starker will perform this afternoon at Beckman Auditorium at the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. . For Starker, performing and teaching have always gone hand in hand. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Starker began playing the cello cello or 'cello: see violin. cello or violoncello Bowed, stringed instrument, the bass member of the violin family. Its full name means “little violone”—i.e., “little big viol. at age 6, taking on his first pupil two years later. He's been teaching and performing ever since. Starker, who now teaches at University of Indiana, played with the Dallas Symphony, the Chicago Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera during the course of his career. ``I've been teaching since I was 8 years old. It's in my blood,'' Starker said during a class break. ``I also feel it is an obligation. If you have been lucky enough to play with and learn from the great masters of your century, it is your job to pass that knowledge along.'' |
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