Geoffrey Dean
Faux-Farewells: Schroeder Travel Log, Part 1
Two years ago to the day, I went on a weekend road-trip with my good friend from our IU-Bloomington days, Berlin-based composer Petros...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jul 31, 2021
- 7 min
Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: Carl Bayrhoffer
Listen to Bayrhoffer's Wiegenlied Carl Bayrhoffer (1859-1926) was BSO first cellist for the latter part of the orchestra’s inaugural...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jul 23, 2021
- 2 min
Humoresque: 2021 Illinois Chamber Music Festival
It has been a wonderful couple of weeks here in Bloomington, Illinois, where after a virtual festival in 2020 the Illinois Chamber Music...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jul 20, 2021
- 4 min
Violoncello Voices, Part 2: From Eliot to Woolf
As we saw in Violoncello Voices, Part 1, the eloquent speech of male possessors of the violoncello voice is described in terms of...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jul 15, 2021
- 1 min
For Christa's Birthday: "Cello a mellow refrain"
Ever used "cello" as a verb? Harry Williams did in the 1921 song "Mello Cello," originally performed by the “Bronson and Baldwin”...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jul 9, 2021
- 7 min
Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: Herrman Heberlein
Listen to Heberlein's Cavatine, Op. 26 A member of the Boston Symphony cello section from the fall of 1898 until 1909,/1/ Hermann...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 30, 2021
- 4 min
Violoncello Voices, Part 1: Briand, Byran, Gielgud
The multi-faceted expressiveness of the cello’s tone has often been likened to the human voice. The description of Alwin Schroeder in...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 26, 2021
- 2 min
Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: August Suck
Listen to Suck's Tarantella here Originally from Bremen, Germany, August Suck (“Sook”; March 16, 1837-Aug. 18, 1921)/1/ was a member of...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 23, 2021
- 3 min
Not So “Bass-ic”: Saying “violoncello”
At the end of a colorfully inaccurate cello-history sketch, a Detroit newspaper item from 1896 includes this instructive passage : This...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 19, 2021
- 4 min
Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: Ernst Jonas
Listen to Jonas's Nocturno, Op. 53, No. 1 Ernst [Ernest] Jonas (ca. 1845-1889)/1/ was a member of the BSO cello section from 1882 to...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 15, 2021
- 3 min
Happy 166th Birthday, Alwin Schroeder!
On June 15, 1855, Alwin Schroeder was born in Neuhaldensleben, Germany, into “an atmosphere intensely musical.” He followed his father...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 10, 2021
- 2 min
Alwin Schroeder, Etude Anthologist
Long before the appearance of the 170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello, Alwin Schroeder had established himself as both a scholar and...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 5, 2021
- 3 min
Dedicated to Schroeder: Ashton's Phantasiestucke, Op. 12
London-based duo partners Evva Mizerska and Emma Abbate made a wonderful recording a few years back of cello music by the English...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 3, 2021
- 1 min
Mellow Cello on the Mississippi: An 1819 Poem
Could this be the earliest use of the mellow cello rhyme? This poem appeared in the Nachez (Mississippi) Gazette on August 28, 1819: TO...
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Geoffrey Dean
- May 29, 2021
- 1 min
Welcome to the Alwinac!
Posts to the Alwinac blog will explore a rich array of Alwin Schroeder-related topics. Here you will find cello music that Alwin and...
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