Word: violine
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Music had always been important, of course -- by high school, David was onto the violin, accordion and guitar -- but Emma remembers an art and music exposition in Montreal that sent her 15-year-old son off in another direction. "As soon as we came back," she says, "David spent the next few months in the basement, painting and just doing things all day." Some of David's efforts are still to be seen in the town house in Columbia, Md., where the Byrnes live now, including a comic strip he drew to illustrate some personal notions of paradise. "When...
...David has never been one for draftsmanship." Byrne earned some money working the grill at a hot dog stand but largely devoted himself to experimental extravagance. At Maryland he formed a duo called Bizadi with an accordion-playing friend, and would sometimes perform with a lighted candle on his violin...
...String Quartet No. 2 and No. 3 won Pulitzer Prizes in 1960 and 1973, and a hard core of enthusiasts rapturously greets each new work. The Second Quartet treated each instrument as an individual; the Third paired them. In the Fourth Quartet, Carter finally has reunited two violins, viola and cello. In four movements that flow together seamlessly, the piece bristles with ferocious rhythmic difficulty: a five-note figure in the viola may be pitted against a nine-note phrase in the second violin. It takes nimble fingers to play this music and nimbler ears to follow...
...course, pleasant voices and a mix of tasteful music. Grandbanke has outlined Geller's deficiencies in a succession of legal forums. (You cannot even find out how the Sox are doing from WVCA, and Geller will probably never utter the name Larry Bird unless Bird takes up the violin.) The corporation has made it clear that it wants to take away Geller's license for the good of Gloucester -- pro bono publico, as it were -- and not, as Geller has shamefully implied, because an FM station within range of the Boston market is nowadays worth at least...
Stern says his role in the work's genesis was minor: "The only thing I can do as a performer is to give the benefit of what I know about the violin to help him say what he wants to say. I put my hands, heart and belief at his disposal." A complex, rhapsodic study in tone color, it is particularly well suited to Stern's soulful intonation and vibrant technical flair. "You have to study the whole score and put together the sound in your head totally," explains the soloist. "Then you take the work apart measure by measure...