Orlando Cole Archives

Conversation with Lynn Harrell (June, 1996)

Interview by Tim Janof Lynn Harrell is known throughout the world as a cellist, chamber musician, recitalist, conductor, teacher, and recording artist. Mr. Harrell is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Piatigorsky Award, the Ford Foundation Concert Artists' Award, and the first Avery Fisher Prize (jointly with Murray Perahia). TJ: As a teenager you lost both your parents. This kind of trauma would emotionally cripple most people for years. How did you manage to overcome this tragedy and become one of the world's most acclaimed cellists? LH: It took me a long time to come to terms with it. It's an experience that I wouldn't wish on anyone. But I have found the resilience of the human spirit to be extraordinary. Look at what is going on in Bosnia [...]

By Tim Janof|2024-07-08T12:40:56-04:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Internet Cello Society Archive, Interviews|Tags: Bach Suites, musicality, Internet Cello Society, bow hold, ICS, Orlando Cole, Interpretation, George Szell, career, Leonard Rose|

Conversation with Ron Leonard (February, 1996)

Interview by Tim Janof Ronald Leonard is well known as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He has been Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1975, and is the Gregor Piatigorsky Professor of Cello at the University of Southern California. He has performed concertos with Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Carlo Maria Giulini, Andre Previn, Simon Rattle, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. He has appeared as guest artist with the Juilliard, Guarneri, Angeles, Mendelssohn, Borremeo, Chilingarian, and American Quartets. TJ: You studied with Orlando Cole and Leonard Rose at the Curtis Institute. How did their teaching methods compare? RL: I studied with them at the same time, believe it or not. They were two very different musical personalities. They approached the instrument, both technically and musically, from quite different viewpoints, [...]

By Tim Janof|2024-07-08T12:43:10-04:00January 23rd, 2021|Categories: Internet Cello Society Archive, Interviews|Tags: Rhythm, Auditions, orchestra, bow technique, Internet Cello Society, ICS, Orlando Cole, Interpretation, Leonard Rose|

Conversation with Orlando Cole (June, 2002)

Interview by Tim Janof Orlando Cole, now 94 years old, has helped produce a generation of cellists which includes Lynn Harrell, David Cole, Ron Leonard, Owen Carman, Daniel Lee, Lorne Munroe, Marcie Rosen, as well as principal cellists in a dozen leading orchestras. In 1927 he was a founding member of the Curtis String Quartet with whom he performed extensively throughout America and Europe for 50 years. He has also held master classes in the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Mr. Cole has been a faculty member of Curtis since graduating from the class of Felix Salmond in 1934. In 1986 he received an honorary "Doctor of Music" from Curtis, and in 1990 was honored by the American String Teacher's Association as "Teacher of the Year." Mr. Cole [...]

By Tim Janof|2024-07-24T19:23:51-04:00August 17th, 2020|Categories: Internet Cello Society Archive, Interviews|Tags: Felix Salmond, ICS, Orlando Cole, Samuel Barber, Curtis Institute of Music, Internet Cello Society Archive, Leonard Rose|