Cello : A Journey Through Silence to Sound by Kate Kennedy

Cello : A Journey Through Silence to Sound by Kate KennedyJust as a cellos voice is divided across four strings, each with its own colour and character, this is a journey in four parts, in search of four players and their instrumentsIn Cello, Kate Kennedy weaves together the lives of four remarkable cellists who suffered various forms of persecution, injury and misfortune. The Hungarian Jewish cellist and composer Pl Hermann managed to keep one step ahead of the Gestapo for much of the Second World War but

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