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Jacqueline du Pre
`I've never been a career deamon. I love playing cello, playing to people, but I've never wanted to do it every day and every hour of my life.'
`I began to play it and to love it and I really loved it. ... When I put the bow on the strings, it made a beautiful sound. ... I got a little older ... and wanted to go to play with other children as any normal child would, but practicing was never too much an effort and when I came to Bill Pleeth then I became very studious and worked extremly hard.'
`I played him the "Swan" ... He took me as his pupil and I was very very happy, because I was so small and he was a great cellist. Anyway, from there on we had an enormously relationship for 7 years. He was a marvellous teacher and formed completly the spine of my cello play'
`I find I adore
words. Never having had to use them to any great extent, I am finding beautiful
new things about speech I never knew existed. Recently I had to make a reading
from the Old Testament for the Branch of the MS Society, of which I am a patron.
I found that everything is the same as in a musical performance. the
psychological emphasis, the structure and timing is all the same. I am also
reading poetry for the first time in my life and I love it so much.'
Jacqueline du Pré,
after she could no longer play
Jacqueline du Pré
Source:
Film: "Remembering Jacqueline du Pré" by Christopher Nupen.
(c) 1994, Allegro Films London