Word: violin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piece "Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra" won the $150,000 Grawmeyer Award from the University of Louisville...
...transcended ordinary expectations with its performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Op. 35. While the appearance of conductor James Yannatos met with the hearty approbation of the audience, the advent of the 1997-98 concerto competition winner produced a reaction more akin to an electric shock. The phenomenon calling himself Joseph Lin '00 strode onto the stage, sweet-faced and supremely self-possessed, and immediately filled Sanders with his charismatic stage presence. Yannatos exchanged a few words with him, then plunged into the beginning of the concerto. Lin remained imperturbable as he hoisted his violin onto his shoulder during...
...minutes provided an opportunity to more fully absorb the complexities of Lin's remarkable performance. HRO lockstep accompaniment was seamless. The sheer physicality of the performance was mesmerizing. Stretching string players and puffing wind players provided little visual contrast to Lin as he leaned and swayed with his violin, and the stage seemed a kinesthetic blur of motion as the insistent, piercing violin relentlessly piled the tension higher. Huge silences punctuated the cadenza; Lin masterfully made the gaping gaps of sound as arresting and palpable as his pure high melodies or mellifluous low phrases. He dared the orchestra to return...
...never stopped. From the Catskills to the Palladium in London, from Atlantic City to Las Vegas, Youngman's modus operandi didn't change: barrage audiences with one-liner after one-liner, barb upon barb; saw out a few notes on his violin, then more jokes, always more jokes. He continued to use his trademark line long after his wife was taken in 1987 -- comedy is comedy, after...
...addition to her academic involvement, Frey is also the executive editor of The Independent and a violin player in the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra...