Word: violine
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...greatest skill is in provoking disapproval while thoroughly enjoying himself. His latest enthusiasms combine an old appetite for philandering with a sweet tooth for the styles of the young. Long hair, mod clothes, of course. But there is also his composition Elevations 9, a chamber concerto for violin, sitar, bass guitar and bongos, and his affair with an ob noxiously ill-tempered girl named Sylvia. Despite the novel's rather straight forward title, she turns out to be only...
Lead singer Jeff Lyons's voice is sharp, almost piercing, and at the same time very melodic. It has a distinctive quality, and coupled with the violin, gives a sense of continuity to their otherwise widely varying music...
...Although the members of the group were surprised when the violinist asked whether he could jam with them, the hour-and-a-half session turned out well. After they had jammed together several times. Federer asked if he could join the group. Still not without reservations about having a violin in a rock band, the group agreed...
Federer's musical background, in contrast to the rest of the group, had been strictly classical. He was born in Lithuania. His parents sent thim to music school to study violin at the age of five, and the continued to study music until he went to Israel six years later. After four years on a kibbutz, where he did not play, he emigrated to New York where he enrolled in Manhattan's High School of Music and Art. He again took up violin, and when he entered Boston University in 1965, he planned to major in music...
...Although it meant that he had to repeat his freshman year, he transferred out of music--majoring instead in psychology. In the next four years. Federer played soccer (he was captain of B.U.'s team) and gradually gained an interest in non-classical music. He improvised on the violin with records of Eastern music, mostly Ravi Shankar. Federer left B.U. in 1970 just one course short of graduation, unsure of what he would do. August saw him at Stonehenge jamming with anyone who was willing--including Bo Diddley and finally Guns & Butter...