"I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right." - Jacqueline du Pré
TODAY'S BOOK:
Jacqueline du Pré by Carol Easton
This book was given to me by a friend shortly after it was published in 1990 and I immediately devoured it since I had always been a fan of Jacqueline du Pré. The extraordinarily talented cellist had passed away in 1987 at the age of 42 - a victim of multiple sclerosis (MS). The disease is a terrible one anyway, but for an artist of her calibre - one of the greatest cellists ever - it was particularly cruel. It forced her to stop performing at the young age of 28, but by that time she had left behind some remarkable recordings and her name invariably comes up in any discussion of famous cellists. Most often associated with the Elgar Cello Concerto, she also performed a wide range of the other great compositions for the instrument - many of which she also recorded.
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