Celllist Jacqueline du Pre shows how to make music in this short clip: at first she is playing Mozart politely on the piano, and chatting with her husband Daniel Barenboim, but you can start watching around 1:05 when the room practically catches fire as she switches to her cello and plays Brahms.
What a natural relationship with her instrument, while her heart shines through and connects with the audience. The re-creative art was alive and well with her during her all too brief career.
I remember her in London in the late 1980s visiting (haunting?) the Royal College of Music, in her wheel-chair, crippled by multiple sclerosis, when speech was a problem, attending concerts and after concert parties, breaking our hearts...
What a natural relationship with her instrument, while her heart shines through and connects with the audience. The re-creative art was alive and well with her during her all too brief career.
I remember her in London in the late 1980s visiting (haunting?) the Royal College of Music, in her wheel-chair, crippled by multiple sclerosis, when speech was a problem, attending concerts and after concert parties, breaking our hearts...
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