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THE N.Y.TIMES MISSES OUT AGAIN! Quack! By Guest Columnist  D U C K               The New York Times has done it again: for the fifth year in a row it failed to recognize   a new art form in the making. Quack!  "From Soup to Nuts" at New York's Leonard Nimoy Thalia evolved in cellist Harry Wimmer's wildly raging imagination. But what to do with it? Those self-appointed cultural arbiters of "All The News That's Fit To Print" are stumped. Quack! Who is this Wimmer, anyway? He is not a Method actor tutored by Lee Strasberg or Stella Adler. He never apprenticed with Mel Brooks or Neil Simon. If he is the SERIOUS cellist who was praised in his youth in letters from Pablo Casals and Bruno Walter, who taught at the Fontainebleau Conservatoire, why doesn't he just play funereal recitals like almost everyone else, and be done with it? We can't pigeonhole him, so let's just ignore his concerts! Quack! Let's just ignore the absurdity of J.S Bach being spotted as a tourist at Stonehenge. Let's ignore Agatha Christie's teleconference with Inspector Poirot. Or Orlando Gibbons being beamed down in time for an interview with the cub reporter. Not to speak of Charlie Chaplin emerging from a cello case to play his composition, "Oh That Cello!" left handed.  Quack! But then there is also the late Beethoven of his Fourth Cello Sonata projected with all the other-worldliness, loneliness, anguish and anger of the almost totally deaf composer, the radiant violin artistry of Shirley Givens in music ranging from Kreisler, Debussy, Bartók to Piazzolla, the Cajun fiddle contributions of "make it look easy" Kevin Wimmer and the unbelievable sensitivity of pianist Eduard Laurel. Quack! It all began five years ago when a hardy group of New Yorkers braved a historic January snowstorm to inaugurate "From Soup to Nuts." Coming full circle on this rainy November 14, a packed house stood up and cheered "From Soup to Nuts V" with the late horn virtuoso Giovanni Punto and the ghost-in-residence of Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio. Who knows what the future will bring?   Quack,quack,quack! POSTED: DECEMBER 4, 2009 COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK This blog created, written and maintained by Harry Wimmer (hwimmer@wimmercello.com). Thanks to Shirley Givens sgivens@juilliard.edu for her imaginative illustrations. Design and content ©2006-2016 by Harry Wimmer, Incidental Artwork ©20062016 by Shirley Givens. All materials on this blog are limited to personal, non-commercial use. CelloBlogTM Trade Mark by Harry Wimmer

OTHER POSTS Django in Cajun Country Sir Michael Tippett in Carnegie Hall Confessions of a Would-be Page Turner Charlie Chaplin - Left-Handed Cellist and Composer The Concert As A Meal B U X T E - W H O ? ARTICLES, CARTOONS The Virtuoso by Wilhelm Busch The Cello Concerto (anon.) Young Itzhak Perlman in Aspen Leonard Rose in Colo.Springs String Portraits by Shirley Givens Bach's C Minor Suite Was Written This Morning. Pablo Casals From Afar Michael Tippett Arrives inShorts Casals Lives On in Puerto Rico The Golden Treasure of San Juan Bach on the Bayou HARRY WIMMER ON BRAHMS: Sonata in E Flat Op.120 No.2 (Live) MENDELSSOHN: Sonata No. 1 in B Flat (Live) CHAPLIN-WIMMER: "Oh, That Cello! (Live) MENDELSSOHN-CASALS: Spring Song (Live) PAGANINI Cantabile (Live) JESUSITA EN CHIHUAUA w/Kevin (Live) ABOUT HARRY WIMMER Bio from the"Joy of Cello Playing" site