Word: violins
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...mind. Despite the visual feast which lay before him–the flickering light, the bejeweled tortoise on Felicity’s dressing table, the nude voluptuousness of his wife–it was a vision of that stable boy, shirtless, standing knee deep in a lake, playing a violin, which had appeared before him. It was this image above anything else which had brought him to the brink of completion...
...mind. He tried to think of Felicity, of the housemaid, of the governess who had seduced him when he was twelve. But no bevy of bosomed beauties could match the burnished biceps of the stable boy and the masterful motion of his fingers as he coaxed music from the violin. The vision haunted him, and it would keep haunting him, a vision that even the oceans of port he imbibed that night would not wash away...
...thinks his dead wife is talking to him; his daughter is spending evenings walking in circles around a pool with a sick baby whale, helping to rehabilitate it; her son may or may not have pulled a huge prank on his school; there’s a violin prodigy who may or may not have lost his gift. I’m eager to find out how it ends.15.FM: So you’ve been a professional skateboarder, an award-winning author, and a Harvard professor. What gets you the most bragging rights?BJ: I don’t know...
...violin was the instrument thatcarried our culture,” Mark O’Connorsaid in a recent talk at Sanders Theatre.“The stories of what our country wentthrough are on this instrument.”O’Connor, a professional violinistand fi ddler himself, has joined previousmasters as one of the storytellers ofour country. He has focused his musicalcareer on celebrating and developingAmerican music, and he shared hisstory at the event, co-sponsored by theOffi ce for the Arts’ Learning from Performersseries and the Harvard AmericanMusic Association.The embodiment of the Americanoptimism...
...lyrics distinctly focus on alcohol, especially in the quatrain “Beer is not dark / Beer is not light / It just tastes good / Especially tonight.” Second single “No Lucifer” begins with a subtle reverb effect birthing a somber violin-guitar duet, which then bursts into a My Bloody Valentine-esque melody, complete with high-pitched, feedback-laden vocals. These are smart, catchy tracks with the potential for universal appeal, if only Americans would turn off their Linkin Park and 50 Cent long enough to notice them. Though British Sea Power...