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Jacqueline Du Pre Tribute Concert by Cellist Christine Newland

I organized and performed solo in this special this fund raising concert honoring my dear friend, renowned cellist Jacqueline Du Pre. I was loaned the now $14 million dollar Bonjour Stradivarius cello to perform the concert on. I performed the Faure Elegy, Bruch Kol Nidrei and in the second half, the Elgar Concerto, reading my letters from Jackie, to the audience in between each solo piece. My mother, cellist Elzee Newland who had Parkinson's disease, died a week before the concert. I had to promote and then perform this concert and try to hold it together, in order to get through this. A week earlier I drove to Meaford Ontario to visit my dying parents and performed the works for them in their room in the nursing home. I lay the Bonjour Stradivarius in Bed with my Mom and rested her hand on the instrument. The concert sold out (1700 people at Centennial Hall in London, Ontario) despite concerns that an all cello program might not be well received. The program began with the Rossini William Tell Overture with the all cello solo quartet at the start and then snuck off stage with my cello (you can hear the audience chuckling) as the orchestra finished the overture without me. I came back on and performed the Elegy and Kol Nidrei reading the letters first and then performed the Elgar in the second half after changing into my midnight blue gown that covered the whole podium I was sitting on. This was by far the most emotional concert I ever performed in my life.