Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Benny's daughter Joan played a squeaky violin, Jack grabbed the fiddle, bashed her over the head with it. When Sammy Davis imitated Dean Martin, a roar came from the wings: "How the hell can I be onstage when I'm still in the toilet?" Most of the humor came from the same direction; "Dino" sang: "Nothing could be finer than to shack up with a minor," and "I'm dancing with tears in my eyes because the girl in my arms...
...zanne's familiar Les Pommes, donated by U.S. Ambassador to Belgium William A. M. Burden. But the "sensation of the sale," according to Parke-Bernet, was the $145,000 paid by a New York gallery for Cubist Georges Braque's Composition: The Violin. Donor of the painting, which brought a record price for a Braque: New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Museum of Modern Art trustee...
...Catholicism in an English-speaking family, by the rigidity and fear of worldly ways in a French-speaking one. For a while the play dribbled along in terms of trivial snags and snubs and slurs; then Playwright Joudry took to sounding louder and darker chords: tempers boiled over, a violin-playing hand was broken, the young girl in one house had a troubled love affair, a small boy was drowned...
...dazzled his listeners with a performance full of flashing colors, amazing fluctuations in volume and, on occasion, blazing speed. Then, after peeling the shredded hair from his bow and shooting the cuffs of his immaculate dress shirt, he launched into the quieter strains of Ernest Bloch's familiar violin war horse Nigun (from Baal Shem), shaping an interpretation that was sweet but not sugary, both poignant and filled with an old world charm...
...wealthy Russian wool importer, Milstein was guided into a virtuoso's career by his ambitious mother, freely admits that he was unenthusiastic about the violin until he was 16 and began to give public recitals. In 1925 he left Russia for Western Europe with his lifelong friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz...