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Curator’s Corner: July 2023

5 July 2023

July at the Cello Museum

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What’s happening this month at the Cello Museum? Find out here.

July 2023 Curator's Corner

Thank you for joining us at the Cello Museum. Summer is here at the Cello Museum, and we have a lot happening.

New York Women Composers Spotlight

NYWC July 2023 Spotlight Beata Moon

We showcase women composers monthly through our collaboration with the New York Women Composers (NYWC). We look forward to our next installment spotlighting Beata Moon and her work “Tenancy” for cello and piano in the second week of July 2023.

Don’t miss the other articles in the series.

Cellos and Animals Series – Part II: For the Birds

Cellos and Animals Part II - For the Birds

Last year I put out a call for people to send me their pet photos, anecdotes, and videos, and our Cello Museum family came through in spades. What started as a short article about cellists and animals, particularly cellists and their pets, grew into a mammoth undertaking. (Actually, there were no mammoths – but there were elephants!) So I’ve split the topic of cellists and animals into a multi-part series. Part II is about cellists playing for birds.

Take flight with this next installment later this month. Revisit the first in our series, “A Cellist’s Best Friend – Dogs and Cellos,” here.

Full Circle – Cellos for Trees – The Forest

Cellos for Trees – Full Circle – The Forest premiered last month on the Solstice, and now the race is on to raise enough to plant 10,000 trees. Be sure to share the video with your friends and family and encourage people to make a donation directly through the project page. We have until 10 July 2023 to reach our goal.

You can also continue to help plant trees by purchasing #cellosfortrees items (shirts, hoodies, stickers, mugs, and more) from our online museum shop.

Postcards from Erica – Hispanic and Latino/Latina Composers Series

Postcards from Erica July 2023

In the last week of July, Erica Lessie will send us her next installment in her series about unaccompanied cello works by Hispanic and Latino/Latina composers. Click here for a quick round-up of her postcards featuring works by Black composers, here for her works featuring women composers, or revisit all of her postcards.

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Author

Curator, Brenda Neece Author

Cello Museum founder and curator, Dr. Brenda Neece is a cellist and a researcher specializing in the history of the cello. Before starting The Cello Museum in 2019, she worked as a freelancer and served for just over a decade as a musical instrument museum curator. Her major cello teachers were Rochelle Kidd, Fred Raimi, Martha Gerschefski, and William Pleeth. Her academic mentors were Jon Finson, Marilyn Gombosi, Hélène La Rue, Ferdinand J. de Hen, and Jeremy Montagu.