Word: violin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first impressions of Harvard were less than favorable. I was welcomed by oppressive humidity as I lugged two heavy suitcases, a laptop, and a violin up four flights of stairs to the top floor of Hollis South (I do not travel lightly). I realized two things then. One: everyone else but me and one international student had parents there, helping them move in and get settled, and two: UPS had lost the ten boxes I had sent from home. Needless to say, I was not happy that first night. I had never felt so alone...
This is an anthology film, tracing the history of the eponymous instrument from its creation in the 17th century to its predictable fate as--what else?--the centerpiece of frantic bidding in an auction in our own time. The violin is, at various points, owned by a monastery, a child prodigy and a victim of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. These stories, alas, are utterly predictable. Still, Samuel L. Jackson breaks through the crust of cliches as an expert called in to verify the instrument's provenance, and violinist Joshua Bell plays and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Corigliano's score...
While most students were packing giant cartons and lugging futons to house storage rooms, Joseph I. Lin '00 was practicing his violin...
...violinist says his parents made the initial decision that he should learn to play the violin, but he began to love it and progressed on his own initiative during high school...
...kisses me. I hold her in that soundless room, far from daylight and the traffic of Bayswater and all the webs of the world. She holds me as if she could never bear to let me desert her again." Excuse me? In addition to doing fastidious research among violin makers and chamber players, has Seth also undergone immersion therapy in the complete works of Judith Krantz...