Can a cello ABSORB your SOUL?? The past lives of Gary Hoffman’s regal 1662 Nicolò Amati...

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Can a cello absorb your soul? Imagine spending your life making music with one of the absolute best instruments of all time. Gary Hoffman has been playing this regal 1662 Nicolò Amati cello for 38 years!! It once belonged to Leonard Rose and before that, a Russian Count who knew both Schumann and Mendelssohn! In this conversation I had backstage while performing with Gary Hoffman in Hong Kong, he talks about some of the past lives of his cello and how it even intertwined with his own journey.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:52 “The cello is a 1662 Nicolò Amati known as Ex-Leonard Rose”
2:04 “There is a plaque with Leonard Rose’s signature on it.”
3:34 Count Vielgorsky, friend of both Schumann and Mendelssohn
5:57 “Rose acquired it in 1952”
6:43 38 years along, how have you or the cello changed?
7:09 “There was a very telling situation in the first year I had this”
8:53 “There’s something alive in instruments like this”
9:59 “There is a relationship established’
11:26 Have you always used gut strings?
14:03 “I heard this cello when I was a child”
15:03 GARY HOFFMAN PLAYS
15:43 Cigarette burns
16:30 Janos Starker’s cigarette technique
17:07 Marveling at the scroll
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@andrewstump6138 2 месяца назад

When I was a student at Curtis, about 2 years ago, I was page turner for a recital that Gary did in Field recital hall. It's like having the best seat in the house. He played the Mendelssohn 2nd sonata (D major) and it felt like listening to a CD except live. Not one thing was out of place. Perfect and pristine in every way, and also full of life and artistry, there was not ever a dull moment in the music. One of the most inspiring performances I've had the privilege of hearing.

@joshablatzheim9075 Месяц назад

Very wonderful and interresting Interview of the Sir!!! He plays very beautiful!!!🎻= à la Cello for him 🎶🙏, all the best for this Cello Sir 🍀.🍀.🍀. Kind regards from a Classical Tenor-Violist-Panpipeflutist from 🇪🇺🇩🇪, to the 🇺🇸 Yours, Josha Blatzheim 🙋‍♂️

@BrianTimmonsTX 2 месяца назад

Ages ago, I worked sales in a violin shop. I had the privilege to briefly play on an Amati family cello that was believed to have been made in 1580. I am not religious in any sense of the word, but I felt something indescribable while playing it. Maybe it was just my hyper awareness of its history, my own awe coloring the experience, but I felt surrounded and encompassed, and embraced by the players that had gone before me. I do know one thing for certain. I haven't played quite like that on another cello. More to the point, I didn't feel like I was the one playing it. The cello was playing me.

@talesfromthequick 2 месяца назад

Gary’s the realist cellist I’ve met and heard

@jmrozendaal 2 месяца назад

Many years ago I turned on the radio and heard a performance of Saint-Saëns' "The Muse and the Poet". I immediately thought, "That is Leonard Rose. No one else sounds like that." It was Gary Hoffman.

@masumirostad 2 месяца назад

Wow!!

@mylesjordan9970 2 месяца назад

Wonderful to hear; I didn’t realize it’s been close to 40 years with the Amati! Hoping for forty more in good health; that would make you 42.

@stevenj9970 2 месяца назад

Gary is such an honest musician. I’ve always admired his playing. I wish the younger generations would stop all the acting when they’re playing. The pained expressions and thrashing around.

@normanfranke4041 Месяц назад

I had the great privilege of studying with Gary at Indiana University back in 1980 (when he was the youngest faculty member in IU history). I have to admit I was a bit heartbroken when he switched to the Amati since I was completely enamoured with the soulful beauty of his sound on his Vuillaume prior to that and for me that was the "Gary Hoffman sound". For a while it was like hearing someone speak with a different voice -- like a science fiction sort of body transplant. I've come to accept the beauty of the Amati and Gary's assertion that it was the right move, but I can also assert that his sound and expression were equally great before that in a different way!

@braxtonneate 17 часов назад

Mr Hoffman plays on Oliv strings, but I am wondering what A string he is using?

@Martini0621 Месяц назад

There's also a famous Russian violist and smoker who's challenging for makers and their retouching skills...

@masumirostad Месяц назад

Hmm…does his name rhyme with Yuri Bashmet?

@marksands1861 2 месяца назад

"I'm 39" very funny.

@mellissadalby1402 2 месяца назад

That Cello looks to be unusually large and wide, or is it just a visual illusion? A few years back (10 yrs? 20 yrs?) I scoffed at my brother not wanting me to "get my vibes" on his instrument. Now I am beginning to understand that my instruments do seem to assimilateboth my touch and my personality, conforming to how I use my hands to make the sounds that I like to make. In physics it can be said that "everything is waves". As such, all waves have sympathetic harmonic resonances (and dissonances), just as people have such interactions with the personalities of other people. It is likely that there is a molecular realignment in the wood of the instrument to acquiesce, or conform to the range of waves resulting from how the instrument is played. Each instrument has its own personality and it is a privilege to find an instrument whose personality melds harmoniously with that of the player.

@masumirostad 2 месяца назад

Yes, I love that, “everything is waves”!

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