Parisot and the Yale Cellos

I've posted about Aldo Parisot and The Yale Cellos a few times. Here's the cover of the programme from the recent 50th Anniversary concert. You can see the whole programme at this really cool site: issuu.com. One of the excellent things inside: another painting by Parisot, of Copacabana Beach.

Aldo Parisot's Yale celebration

The 2008-2009 edition of the Music at Yale Magazine is available online. It includes a fascinating story (on pp. 6-9) about the great cellist Aldo Parisot. He's shown here, in a picture I haven't seen before, with his close friend Heitor Villa-Lobos (channelling, perhaps just a bit, Elvis). Villa wrote the second Cello Concerto, which seems to be in vogue lately, for Parisot in the year that this photo was taken, 1953.

Besides his obvious skills as an instrumentalist, conductor, and teacher, Parisot is an accomplished painter. Check out musicyale's Flickr photostream here. I love the picture of Parisot with one of his paintings, and also, of course, the one of Parisot with one of my favourite jazz artists, Dave Brubeck.

Aldo Parisot Celebration at Yale

Here's a major event: the great cellist Aldo Parisot celebrates 50 years as a member of the Yale School of Music Faculty with a concert featuring the Yale Cellos, on April 20th. Villa-Lobos wrote his second cello concerto for Parisot, who was closely involved in the details of its composition. The concert features the first and fifth Bachianas Brasileiras.

Last October I posted a story about Parisot and Villa-Lobos that somehow got side-tracked in a culinary direction.