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...astonishing to contemplate, but another extraordinary aspect of Holmes is that, along with his violin, he sounds a metaphysical chord. He and Professor Moriarty are Manichaean twins, representing the endless moral struggle between good and evil...
...with a cello and a cello teacher. "I had never heard a cello," she recalls. A year and a half later, at eleven, she became one of the first people in Korea to perform publicly a cello solo. An uncle brought five-year-old Kyung-Wha a quarter-size violin. In a week she could play anything on it by ear and carried it everywhere. Only Myung-Whun remained at the piano...
...Myung-So, flute; Myung-Keun, violin; Myung-Chul, clarinet; Myung-Kyu, guitar...
...narrator does not display the same literary tact in regard to other aspects of the Holmes figure. The detective's penchants for frenetic violin playing, for contemplative shag-smoking, and for energetic telegraphing are all thrust into the story because they were effective in the original. The sacred Holmes sleuthing ritual--the animal-like absorption in the tracing of a clue--has been neatly reduced to a series of yelps, whines, and tremors that has been blandly placed into the narrative...
Priscilla Hallberg, violin; and Lee Wilson, piano. Beethoven sonatas Op. 47, 24, 12/2...