Word: violin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lifetime passion for the violin led Germaine Carbury-Breau on a somewhat different route--one which culminated in the Cambridge Violin Shop, which she opened 12 years ago on J.F.K...
Camille's violin is acting up, and Stephane'scareful repairs under her petulant orderseventually seem to work some sort of spell on herand she develops an erotic fascination for him.Somewhere along the way, however, Stephane dropsout of the camp of Camille-worshippers (we don'tknow what triggers his nonchalance; his reserveddemeanor suggests somehow that it was there tobegin with and that he was just going along witheveryone else) and this infuriates her and leadsher to smear garish cosmetics on her face, quaff awhole bottle of gin, and make a humiliating scene.Everyone else gets irritated with his stoicism aswell, and Maxim...
...spinner of hook-laden odes to the ordinary man. Early hits that hinted at the darker dimensions of suburbia, like Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, sold millions and made Mellencamp an MTV star. On later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), he used electric violin and accordion to evoke the bucolic grit of rural America. At the same time, his longstanding commitment to Farm Aid, which he co-founded with Willie Nelson in 1985, gave his prairie- roots message an activist urgency...
Junior uses anxious violin chords to underline the confessions of an alienated couch potato who sees "the world through the TV Guide" and muses, "I know I'm missin' something/ But I don't know what it is." Case 795 (The Family) is an unflinching view of a domestic squabble that ends with the wife "bleeding on the floor in the kitchen/ With cake on her fingers...
...fifth movement, the strings made it clear that they could play off the winds more easily than the brass that sometimes seemed altogether incongruous. The violins did display incredible volume control, slowly ascending to the finale. Mehta became more animated, cutting circles from the air to cue the violin pizzacati. Mehta did not use his left hand, though, until the very end, when the Bartok brought the full magnitude of the orchestra into being...