{"id":599,"date":"2018-01-24T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicallradio.com\/articles\/?p=599"},"modified":"2023-01-01T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T23:25:12","slug":"%d0%b6%d0%b0%d0%ba%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%bd-%d0%b4%d1%83-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5-%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%9a%d0%b5-%d0%b4%d1%83%d0%b3%d0%b5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicallradio.com\/articles\/en_US\/2018\/01\/24\/%d0%b6%d0%b0%d0%ba%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%bd-%d0%b4%d1%83-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5-%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%9a%d0%b5-%d0%b4%d1%83%d0%b3%d0%b5\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqueline Du Pr\u00e9: Creating The Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"

She’s like a rainbow
\nComing, colors in the air
\nOh, everywhere
\nShe comes in colors.<\/em><\/p>\n

Have you seen her dressed in blue?<\/em>
\nSee the sky in front of you
\nAnd her face is like a sail
\nSpeck of white so fair and pale
\nHave you seen a lady fairer?<\/em><\/p>\n

She shoots colors all around\u00a0<\/em>
\nLike a sunset going down
\nHave you seen a lady fairer?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

1949, Oxford, England. The four-year-old girl is sitting with her mother in a living room, the radio is on. We presume it is late afternoon, between 5 and 6 p.m.<\/span><\/span> because it is time for the BBC\u2019s \u2018\u2019Children hour\u2019\u2019. Her attention is drawn by some unfamiliar sound and without hesitation, she tells her mother: \u2018\u2019give me the thing that makes that sound\u2019\u2019. Her mother, a pianist, by the way, taking seriously her daughter\u2019s words, very soon brings her a huge cello to which little Jacqueline was a worthy companion. And that is how all began. <\/span><\/p>\n

When she was 15, Pablo Casals signed her name using the word \u2018\u2019genius\u2019\u2019 on the photo of the two of them. She performed the famous Elgar\u2019s cello concerto for the first time when she was 17, and at 18 she managed to draw and hold the attention of the whole artistic world and audience to herself. It was the beginning of the \u201960s, the Beatles were conquering the world, Rubinstein and Horowitz were synonyms for serious music, and one young girl was writing her name down in the pages of music history. She recorded the piece in a studio with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir John Barbirolli in 1965 after which nothing was the same anymore. One of the greatest authorities when it comes to cello, Rostropovich, will take Elgar off his repertoire after listening to his exceptional student\u2019s performance, and many future cellists will musically \u2018\u2019grow up\u2019\u2019 taking her recording as a paradigm.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/span>Although she was not a part of the rock milieu, Jacqueline possessed a certain insurgency that could not be noticed in the appearance of classical artists from that period (Pogorelich and Nigel were yet to come in the \u201980s). But she didn\u2019t differentiate from the regular performer with her styling. She alone was completely unique, incomparable with anyone else; while she created living emotions with her \u2018\u2019freestyle\u2019\u2019 interpretation, taming the instrument with a gentle pressure of the string or flaring its bad temper with wide and sharp movements. No wonder Zubin Mehta compared her in youth with a mustang, while watching her running on the shores of the Hebrides.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The mustang girl \u2013 untameable while she plays, with eyes that carry the seriousness of elders but only until the curious youthful look appears along with the smile, usually directed to her husband and friends with whom she performed the most. On stage, her fellow musicians appreciated her because of the genuine gift she had, unlimited ease in approach to compositions, often unaware of the challenge she was putting in front of them. In that way, making music was always an adventure with her. Outside of the scene, they loved her because of her lovely and cheerful nature, that\u2019s why everyone called her Smiley. And that is probably the reason why even today she is dear to people who never even met her.<\/span><\/p>\n

The story about her life was beautifully told by Christopher Nupen in the movie that shows Jacqueline du Pr\u00e9 in all her naturalness and ingenuity. One part of the film consists of the live recording of the Elgar\u2019s concerto in 1967. this time with Jacqueline looking at her husband Daniel at the conductor\u2019s desk. From the first cord, this dark piece overwhelms us with its obscurity and dark tones, which is not strange since it was the author’s state of mind when he composed it in his 60\u2019s. The palette of emotions, the turmoil of the soul and thoughts we confront at the sunset of our lives emerge\u00a0<\/b>from every joining of a bow and the strings and in the hands of a 22-year-old get all the nuances of the rainbow.<\/span><\/p>\n