Word: violin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Attorney O'Brien (Peter Falk) defends a heist artist who is accused of killing a violin dealer...
...quote Classical Guitarist Andres Segovia [Oct. 29] as asking: "Who ever has heard of an electric violin? Or an electric singer?" There are at least nine patents on electric violins. Moreover, there are patents on electric musical instruments wherein the voice of a singer, say Crosby, is recorded note by note through his full range, so that any tune can be played on these instruments, with the Crosby voice emanating for all notes and chords fingered...
Raised in what is now the East German city of Zwickau (his mother still lives there, but they are allowed to exchange visits), Frobe was a violin prodigy and opera-set designer before he turned actor. During World War II, the man now cast as a German general never rose past the rank of corporal. He is convinced, however, that his empathic powers are limitless, for no role has eluded him yet. "I cannot stand on my hands," he says, "but I feel certain that if I were acting a part which required me to stand on my hands...
...when he arrived in London on an English concert tour. "Daddy of them?" winced Classical Guitarist Andrés Segovia, 71. "The Beatles are very nice young men, no doubt, but their music is horrible. The electric guitar is an abomination. Who ever has heard of an electric violin? Or, for that matter, an electric singer...
...Instrument. Ormandy began playing at three on a one-eighth-size violin, at age four caused a stir in local music circles when he leaped out of his seat at a concert and cried: "Papa! That violinist played an F sharp! It should be an F natural!" At five, he became the youngest student ever accepted at Hungary's Royal Academy of Music. At 21, Ormandy came to the U.S. for a concert tour, but was stranded when the promoters went bankrupt. Literally down to his last nickel, he joined the fiddle section of Manhattan's Capitol Theater...