Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ecuadorian saying is "You must play politics like a violin: pick it up with your left hand and play it with your right." Many believe that Arosemena is mastering himself as well as the political fiddle, and the odds are improving that he may even make it through to the 1964 elections. Once curbed by Arosemena, the far left turned out to be a remarkably shallow and ineffectual clique; the army, said Conservative Party Leader Francisco Salazar, "has no strong leader, and it doesn't want to get mixed up in politics." And even those most disillusioned with Arosemena...
...blue shirt, blue tie, blue handkerchief. But nothing else is blue. Everyone knows his true colors come in 14-corned gold, a spray of white lies and a streak of pale green envy. Abuse turns him purple, but he never bursts into flame. When he asks politely for his violin, for example, it is tossed in a high parabola from the wings and smashes at his feet. He turns to the audience and draws every living soul to his side with the glazed-over helpless look that was once said to resemble "a calf that had just been struck between...
...best and most engaging number in his show is a violin duet in which he plays Getting to Know You with a pig-tailed hoyden named Toni Marcus. His violin is more to him than a tool for saving symphony orchestras, although in the past seven years he has earned more than $3,000,000 for various symphonies by appearing as mock-serious soloist at benefit concerts. He plays the fiddle every day at home and says it helps him when he is in a morose mood...
...orchestra ("dancing-place" of the Chorus) in the Agamemnon, the blaze of intellectual excitement is almost unbearable... As if Beethoven, a poet of comparable dimensions, had written three, or four, expository cadenzas stating the thematic content of the whole work in the first movement of a violin or pianoforte concerto...
...last week Composer Lees heard his notes turned to music. Violinist Henryk Szeryng and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed Lees's Violin Concerto in two New York concerts, and its excellence, together with the skimpy monetary rewards he can expect, make a very good case for giving Lees and other gifted composers like him a never-ending grant to keep them going. In an age when almost no composers are turning their talents to the delicate mysteries of the violin concerto, Lees has written a small masterpiece. If all goes well and it is played a half-dozen times...