: a cello player
a yard-long implement that looks just like a cellist's bow, only larger.—
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Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma views this week as a homecoming.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
Rosé was the conductor of the Auschwitz women’s orchestra and was in need of a cellist.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
Special guests include 13-year-old cellist Sonya Moomaw, vocalist Mary Patton.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 July 2024
Throb, Shiver, Arrow of Time is the British composer-producer and cellist’s formal follow-up to 2020’s Skins n Slime, after interim work on soundtracks for Aftersun and The Stranger, among other films.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Aug. 2024
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Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
Rosé was the conductor of the Auschwitz women’s orchestra and was in need of a cellist.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
Special guests include 13-year-old cellist Sonya Moomaw, vocalist Mary Patton.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 July 2024
Throb, Shiver, Arrow of Time is the British composer-producer and cellist’s formal follow-up to 2020’s Skins n Slime, after interim work on soundtracks for Aftersun and The Stranger, among other films.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Aug. 2024
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“Cellist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellist. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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