Word: violin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What they see can be eye catching. The Thai-Chinese-British violinist who goes by the name Vanessa-Mae (full name: Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson) has a new album, The Violin Player, climbing up the worldwide pop charts on the strength of her disco-driven version of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. A photo on the single from the album features the slim, pretty teen fiddling away while standing in the Mediterranean in a soaking-wet see-through white shift. "If as a result of this, people see the violin as a fresh, trendy, up-to-date...
...amazing coincidence, Ptashne succeeded in uniting the pair by acquiring the second violin...
...finally got the violin of my dreams, the Plowden which is another [Guarnieri violin made by] Del Jesu in 1735," Ptashne says. "I was in Sweden giving a lecture and an English dealer and friend of mine called and said that if I flew in to New York City that night I could see the twin of the D'Egville," he says. "I flew there and now they're back together...
...have one violin called a Rocca that's being played by a concert player in New York and I have [another viola] called a Pressenda that's being played in the Borromeo quartet...
...addition to playing the violin. Ptashne is an avid collector of various paintings and sculptures produced by such artists as Matisse, Hoffman and Lachaise...