Bernard Greenhouse

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| name = Bernard Greenhouse

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|1|3|mf=yes}}

| birth_place =Newark, New Jersey, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|5|13|1916|1|3|mf=yes}}

| death_place =Wellfleet, Massachusetts, U.S.

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| occupation = Cellist

| spouse = Aurora de la Luz Fernandez y Menendez{{cite news | title=Paid Notice: Deaths - Greenhouse, Aurora de la Luz Fernandez y Menendez | newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/classified/paid-notice-deaths-greenhouse-aurora-de-la-luz-fernandez-y.html | date=March 29, 2006 | accessdate=January 15, 2012}}

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Bernard Greenhouse (January 3, 1916 – May 13, 2011){{cite web | title=Today in History for 3rd January 1916: Famous Birthdays| date=3 January 1916 | publisher=HistoryOrb | url=http://www.historyorb.com/date/1916/january/3 | accessdate=January 15, 2012}} was an American cellist and one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/arts/music/bernard-greenhouse-cellist-dies-at-95.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss| title=Bernard Greenhouse, Acclaimed Cellist, Dies at 95 | newspaper=The New York Times |first=Margalit |last=Fox | date=May 13, 2011}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/20/bernard-greenhouse-obituary |title=Bernard Greenhouse obituary |first=Tully |last=Potter |date=July 20, 2011 |newspaper=The Guardian}}{{cite news| url=https://www.npr.org/2011/05/14/136286433/cellist-bernard-greenhouse-dies-at-96| title=Cellist Bernard Greenhouse Dies At 95| author= Anastasia Tsioulcas| publisher=NPR | date=May 13, 2011 }}

Life and career

Greenhouse was born in Newark, New Jersey and began playing the cello at the age of eight.{{cite web |url=https://www.kronbergacademy.de/cms/deutsch/shop/ausstellungen/bernard-greenhouse.html |title=Bernard Greenhouse |website=Kronbergacademy.de |accessdate=October 26, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026235145/https://www.kronbergacademy.de/cms/deutsch/shop/ausstellungen/bernard-greenhouse.html |archivedate=2016-10-26 }} He started his professional studies with Felix Salmond at the Juilliard School when he was eighteen.{{cite web| last = Janof | first = Tim | title = Conversation with Bernard Greenhouse | publisher = Internet Cello Society | date = November 29, 1998 | url = http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/greenhouse.htm | accessdate = May 21, 2007 }} After four years of study with Salmond, Greenhouse proceeded to move on to studies with Emanuel Feuermann, Diran Alexanian, and then became one of the very few long-term students of Pablo Casals, studying with him from 1946 to 1948.

After finishing studies with Casals, Greenhouse went on to pursue a solo career for twelve years. He struggled with this however, as the cello was not a very popular solo instrument at the time. During this period, he encountered violinist Daniel Guilet, who invited Greenhouse in 1954 to play some Mozart piano trios with pianist Menahem Pressler. In 1955 they met in New York City, the first meeting of what was to become the Beaux Arts Trio.

In 1958, Greenhouse acquired the Countess of Stanlein, also called the Paganini Strad, one of 63 Antonio Stradivari cellos, and played it ever after.[https://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=93844925&m=93835635 "Bernard Greenhouse: A Master And His Cello"] All Things Considered Diaries interview by Joe Richman, broadcast August 21, 2008, by NPR. Following his death, it was to be sold by Boston violin dealer Christopher Reuning.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/magazine/bernard-greenhouse-cello.html |title=Selling a 300-Year-Old Cello |date=January 13, 2012 |magazine=The New York Times Magazine |first=Daniel J. |last=Wakin}}{{cite news |last1=Greco |first1=Vanessa |title=Montreal musician lent famous 'Stradivari' cello |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal-musician-lent-famous-stradivari-cello-1.758025 |access-date=4 June 2024 |publisher=CTV News |date=24 January 2012}}

In 1987, he left the trio, and was replaced by cellist Peter Wiley.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93844925 |title=Bernard Greenhouse: A Master And His Cello |first=Joe |last=Richmond |date=August 21, 2008 |publisher=NPR}} Greenhouse was known for his impeccable technique, but even more so for his inspiring passion and the depth and variety of his sound.{{cite web | author=Brooks Whitehouse | title=Greenhouse Effect: UNCG honors cellist Bernard Greenhouse in his 90th year | work=Strings Magazine | url=http://www.stringsmagazine.com/News/Interviews-Profiles/Greenhouse-Effect-UNCG-honors-cellist-Bernard-Greenhouse-in-his-90th-year | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911095341/http://www.stringsmagazine.com/News/Interviews-Profiles/Greenhouse-Effect-UNCG-honors-cellist-Bernard-Greenhouse-in-his-90th-year | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-09-11 | date=December 2004 | accessdate=January 1, 2012 }}

During his career, he taught at the Hartt College of Music, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, Rutgers University and the Juilliard School. A series of videos of his master classes were produced in 1993 by Ethan Winer.{{cite web| last = Winer | first = Ethan | title = Cello Page | url = http://www.ethanwiner.com/cello.html | accessdate = 2007-05-21 }}

Though retired from institutional teaching, Greenhouse still gave master classes throughout the United States, Canada, China, Korea, Japan and Europe until his death in 2011.{{Cite journal | last = Fang | first = Jeannette | title = A Cello Master Shares a Lifetime of Wisdom | journal = The Juilliard Journal | volume = 20 | issue = 6 | publisher = The Juilliard School | date = March 2005 | url = http://www.juilliard.edu/update/journal/j_articles481.html | accessdate = 2007-05-21 | archive-date = 2007-09-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083950/http://www.juilliard.edu/update/journal/j_articles481.html | url-status = dead }}

Interviewed as the farewell concert of the Beaux Arts Trio on August 21, 2008, approached, he said he practiced every day and was considered "the old man of the cello", with other aging cellists being surprised that he still performed at the age of 95. Greenhouse also remained the oldest of those who have played in the trio, until at least 2015, Daniel Guilet (who was born about a week short of 17 years earlier) having died at the age of 91,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/17/obituaries/daniel-guilet-violinist-is-dead-beaux-arts-trio-founder-was-91.html |title=Daniel Guilet, Violinist, Is Dead; Beaux Arts Trio Founder Was 91 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 17, 1990}} and Isidore Cohen having died at 82.{{Cite journal| title = Isidore Cohen, Renowned Chamber Musician, Dies at 82 | journal = The Juilliard Journal | volume = 21 | issue = 1 | publisher =The Juilliard School |date = September 2005| url = http://www.juilliard.edu/update/journal/j_articles647.html | accessdate = 2007-05-23}}

Greenhouse's second passion was sailing on one of his several boats. He died on May 13, 2011, at his home overlooking the Wellfleet, Massachusetts, harbor on Cape Cod. His daughter, Elena, with Aurora de la Luz Fernandez y Menendez, was married to author Nicholas Delbanco. His grandson-in-law is director Nicholas Stoller.

Students

Greenhouse's notable students include:

Timothy Eddy
Maxine Neuman
Paul Katz
Amit Peled
Damien Ventula
Stjepan Hauser{{cite web |url=http://stjepanhauser.webs.com/biography.htm |title=Biography - STJEPAN HAUSER |accessdate=2013-03-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404094622/http://stjepanhauser.webs.com/biography.htm |archivedate=2013-04-04 }}
Uzi Wiesel
Astrid Schween
Kurt Baldwin
Sophia Bacelar
David Amsden Starkweather{{Cite web |title=David Starkweather {{!}} Hugh Hodgson School of Music |url=https://www.music.uga.edu/directory/people/david-starkweather |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=www.music.uga.edu}}

Partial discography

;Appearances

;;With the Vellinger Quartet

Schubert: String Quintet in C (BBCMM75, 1998)

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;;With the Henri René Orchestra

RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt (RCA, 1953)
That Bad Eartha (EP) (RCA, 1954)
Down To Eartha (RCA, 1955)
That Bad Eartha (LP) (RCA, 1956)
Thursday's Child (RCA, 1957)

References

External links

[http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/cello/items.aspx#greenhouse UNCG Special Collections and University Archives Cello Music Collection: Bernard Greenhouse]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141028033335/http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections%2Fcontrolcard&id=568 Bernard Greenhouse Personal Papers Collection, 1916-2011]
[http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/exhibits/past_exhibits.aspx#cello UNCG Special Collections and University Archives past exhibits: Celebrating the Cello Music Collection: The Greenhouse Legacy]
[http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/Greenhouse UNCG Digital Collections: Bernard Greenhouse Collection]
[https://archive.org/details/BachCantataNo.79gottIsUnserSonnUndSchildforrester Bach: Cantata No. 79 "Gott is unser Sonn' und Schild- performed by the Bach Aria Group - Bernard Greenhouse, cello; Maureen Forrester, contralto; Robert Bloom, oboe; Paul Ulanowsky, piano (1966) on archive.org]

Category:American classical cellists

Category:American music educators

Category:Juilliard School alumni

Category:Jewish American musicians

Category:1916 births

Category:2011 deaths

Category:New England Conservatory faculty

Category:Musicians from Newark, New Jersey

Category:Classical musicians from New York (state)

Category:Classical musicians from New Jersey

Category:Beaux Arts Trio members

Category:20th-century American classical musicians