Robert Blocker, Dean
Aldo Parisot 1918–2018 a celebration of his extraordinary life & career
April 17, 2019 | 4 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Prelude Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Aldo Parisot, cello Vienna Festival Orchestra Pierre-Michel le Conte, conductor Musical Masterpiece Society Records Welcome Robert Blocker The Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music Invocation Rabbi James Ponet Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain Emeritus Lecturer, Divinity School Musical Interlude Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano, Op. 66 David Popper (1843–1913) from The Yale Cellos Play Favorites (Delos, 1987) Aldo Parisot, director Elizabeth Parisot, piano recorded in Sprague Memorial Hall, May 1986 Presidential Tribute Peter Salovey President, Yale University
Remembrances Dean Parisot and Robert Parisot Syoko Aki Joseph Polisi Musical Interlude Nacht und Träume, Op. 43, No. 2 Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 7, “Träumerei” Robert Schumann (1810–1856) Ole Akahoshi, cello Robert Blocker, piano Remembrances Ralph Kirshbaum Jesús Castro-Balbi Vincent Oneppo Special Tribute Yo-Yo Ma Postlude Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 III. Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivace Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Aldo Parisot, cello Elizabeth Parisot, piano Westport Unitarian Church live performance, April 12, 1970
Aldo Parisot 1918–2018 yale Faculty 1958–2018
Renowned cellist and Yale School of Music Professor Aldo Simões Parisot passed away at age 100 in Guilford, Conn., on December 29, 2018. At home and surrounded by family, he passed listening to a recording of one of his favorite Brazilian folk songs, “A Casinha Pequenina,” and the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, written by his friend, composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Mr. Parisot was driven to expand the cello repertoire, premiering numerous works for the instrument. Following his 1966 premiere of Donald Martino’s Parisonatina al’Dodecafonia, composed for and dedicated to him, The New York Times said, “Those at this performance are not going to forget [Parisot’s] feat overnight.” Mr. Parisot loved teaching as much as he loved playing. In 1958, he joined the faculty at the Yale School Mr. Parisot was born in Natal, Rio of Music, where he taught for 60 years, Grande do Norte, Brazil in 1918 to Luiz retiring in 2018. Parisot and Angela Simões. He and his younger brother, Italo Babini, learned Mr. Parisot was also a visual artist whose to play cello from Mr. Parisot’s stepworks have been exhibited around the father, Tomazzo Babini. Mr. Parisot world. He donated proceeds from the made his debut with the Brazilian sale of his paintings to the travel fund Symphony Orchestra at age 12 and by he established for Yale School of Music age 18 became the ensemble’s principal students. cellist. In Rio de Janeiro, he came to the attention of Carleton Sprague Smith, Mr. Parisot is survived by Elizabeth an American attaché to the Brazilian Sawyer Parisot, his wife of 52 years; embassy who offered to help him study his brother, cellist Italo Babini of San abroad. Mr. Parisot arrived at Yale in Diego, Calif.; his three sons: film 1946 as a “special student.” director Dean (Aldo) Parisot of Los Angeles, Calif., architect Robert Parisot He played with the Pittsburgh Symphony of Redding, Conn., and sculptor Ricardo Orchestra for two years, then, in 1950, Parisot of Wilton, Conn.; daughtersgave his debut recital at Town Hall in in-law Joleigh Parisot and Katherine New York City, launching an interThrockmorton; and six grandchildren: national solo career that produced Michelle Parisot, Isabella Parisot, numerous recordings. Renowned for Daniella Parisot, Lucas Parisot, Aldo his beautiful sound and astonishing Parisot, and Lance Parisot. Mr. Parisot technique, Mr. Parisot performed on was predeceased by his grandson stages throughout the world as a Nicholas Parisot, his daughter-in-law recitalist and as a soloist with major Sally Menke, and his former wife, orchestras under the batons of such Ellen Lewis Parisot. eminent conductors as Bernstein, Monteux, and Stokowski.