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Rosen Rises Again |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Tom Pniewski |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,818 Words, 17,480 Characters |
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The gold in a music competition medal can, like a shooting star, burn out after a few years of postcontest publicity. Only rarely will it keep its shine over a lifetime of achievement. An object lesson in hard-won achievement is cellist Nathaniel Rosen, whose career competition entrants and winners would do well to study.
In 1978 Rosen was awarded the gold medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the first American to win the prestigious prize since pianist Van Cliburn in 1958 and to this day the only American cellist to do so. After a few years his career went through a trying intermediate stage, but among musicians, he is now considered to be in the "inner circle" of performers on the instrument, one of the two or three names that immediately come to mind when the cello is ment...
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...rings tears to my eyes," he says, "they're the winner."
With his recording of the Bach suites, Nathaniel Rosen has arrived at the peak of his career and made a permanent space for himself in the cellists' hall of fame. One can only eagerly await his coming projects, knowing that they will surely be, like all his performances, of gold-medal quality, guaranteed to satisfy, move, and delight.
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