Word: violine
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...evening belonged to Bob Hope, his one-liners and his entertainers, a wholesome mélange drawn from the golden age of radio and present pop. Jack Benny played his violin, Red Skelton clowned, Dinah Shore, Dorothy Lamour, Miss Black America and Glen Campbell sang. The crowd was far larger this time, perhaps 350,000, and dissenters were in an uglier mood, hurling bottles and rocks at police and the fringe of the crowd. Fred Waring led everyone into a finale of the Battle Hymn of the Republic as the sky erupted in fireworks over the Potomac. Two Americans...
...that he wanted to sing opera, Milnes had ambitions to be a doctor. His father was a Methodist minister, his mother the musical director of the local Congregational church. As a boy, Sherrill milked cows and baled hay on the family farm, but also found time to study voice, violin, piano, viola and tuba. Later he took a pre-med course at Iowa's Drake University, where voice teachers urged him to take up singing as a full-time career. Commercials beefed up his cash balance while he sang with Boris Goldovsky's Opera Company...
...poetry, radio and stage plays. The two have extracted from Beckett's life work the single figure of the Beckett tramp, Fool without his Lear. Now the tramp was confronting his maker in rapt concentration. Intense and difficult listening: this Beckett, like a Bach sonata for unaccompanied violin, is a music compacted of roughnesses and silences, almost demanding of the audience too the explorations and repetitions of rehearsal in order to flower in performance...
Probably the most bizarre experience was that of a young New York City woman who was billed $181.39 for three calls to Ireland that she did not make, then picked up her phone one day and heard violin music (apparently from a crossed Muzak line). A woman in Los Angeles asked the General Telephone Co. to let her keep her telephone number when she moved. The company did so, but it also gave the number to someone else. When the number is dialed now, two phones ring simultaneously in two different homes. At Atlanta Airport, some telephones continue ringing after...
...justified. Sutherland's voice warmed toward a soaring, languorous tenderness. Horne, making one of the greatest Met debuts, showed a vocal reach and richness that exceeded nearly anybody's gasp. In Mira, O Norma, closing Act III, the two together floated along like two strings of a violin being stroked by the same bow. The way their voices blended and interwove produced moments of sheer delight-moments to justify opera and fleetingly suggest that the shaky conspiracy called civilization may actually be worth all the trouble...