Word: violins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this film lays the sauce on thick. Cheap melancholy violin strains, again a la Mama Leone's, drip over each scene, happy or sad. All things Italian are overdone like a microwaved lasagna. Wild emotional responses ooze over the stock stereotypical Italian characters we've come to be bored with over the years, such as the psychic grandmother and--could you have guessed--the mob. And the ending drags on like a meal of wet noodles. Beginning to feel indigestion...
Friends recalled the French enthusiast and Romance Languages Ph.D. candidate as someone who always had time to care and who liked to see other people enjoy themselves. Some of his friends spoke, some read poetry, some sang, and some played the piano and violin...
Arnold Steinhardt, violin, and Virginia Eskin, piano: Harvard's Gardner Museum...
...failed inventor who became an alcoholic, his mother a failed pianist who died when he was nine, and his older brother a schizophrenic. At 18 months, Orson was "discovered" by Dr. Maurice Bernstein, a family friend, who pronounced the tot a genius and supplied him with a violin, paints and a puppet theater, while ardently courting the genius' mother...
Music at the Gardner Museum: Frank Graves, violin; Angela Vanstory, piano...