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So here's another obituary for
the cellist Jacqueline DuPré.

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And it's about art again.

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It's called a "Lament for
Cellists and Jacqueline DuPré"

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When the beautiful cellist
Jacqueline DuPré died

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of multiple sclerosis at 42,
all the cellists grieved.

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And one fell on her
instrument, not as a sacrifice

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but as an accident if
there are such accidents.

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She was hysterical, but there
was no damage to the tone

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and it only cost $1,000 to fix.

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Remember, a cello
is a beautiful shape

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of air set in the right
box and played by strings.

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Played by strings,
the player plays.

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A cellist can't get
close to it the way

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a violinist does, feeling
the air play the wood,

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play the bones of his or her
head as the violinist joins

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the music to the
brain with wood.

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That's why some cellists
dance with it like Yo-Yo Ma

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because it is an outside
music that they have to join,

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as athletes of a different air.

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So when Jacqueline
DuPré died young,

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her muscles dying on her
first, it got to the cellists

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in their very art.

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Because they're distant
from their instruments.

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It can't go to their
heads like violins.

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With her, the music
started distantly then it

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got more distant.

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Then the distance got to be
the infinity of cello death.

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The way a cellist I
knew would drape his tux

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around his instrument
before he went

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to sleep after a performance
in a strange town.

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So the cello could be the
cellist through the night,

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dead silence with a black
bow tie around its neck,

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so he could joke away
the horrors that way."

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