Word: violins
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...Battuta offers feasts and romance, weddings and funerals, imbuing them with the absurdity and surrealism of dreams. As the furious crescendo finally tapers and night falls, a violin draws a melancholic tune while the caravan beds down, their horses shifting in the darkness. After the show you won't want to leave, and may sit down and order a feast of your own in the velvet-curtained dining pavilion. Or you may linger around the bonfire outside the theater sipping a mint tea or spiced wine, trying to prolong your dreamlike state until, grudgingly, you catch the last metro back...
Christina Aguilera "Hurt" Dir. Francis Sigismondi The first thirty seconds of Christina Aguilera’s “Hurt,” in which black and white circus footage rolls over an ominous violin piece, may be the most disorienting thing a pop diva has done to video viewers since Britney’s spandex-in-space adventures of the late twentieth century. That is, of course, except for the remaining four minutes of the video. “Hurt,” which centers around a circus performer’s mournful memories of her deceased father, frames...
...with brass and cymbal crashes, was slightly muddled. Still, the piece effectively conveyed the opera’s fateful tone and segued appropriately to increasingly dramatic performances. The second piece was Johannes Brahms’ “Double Concerto in A minor,” a concerto for violin and cello soloists that is considered one of the composer’s greatest masterpieces. The twin guest performers took to the stage for this number. The Bruskins are slender brunettes distinguishable only by the size of their instruments, violin and cello respectively. The three movements of the concerto, Allegro...
...before transferring to Harvard, where he served as a music professor for another 22. Since retiring in 2002, Lockwood has remained active in the music community. He has published two books as an emeritus professor: the 2003 Pulitzer-nominated Beethoven biography and more recently, “The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance.” However, Lockwood refers to the performance of chamber music as his “principle avocation.” He spends much of his time behind a cello or even playing piano trios with fellow Harvard affiliates. Lockwood admits that his comfort zone...
...what’s important in order to try and portray this guy.”Harris’ preparation for playing Beethoven was grueling.“I played the piano for a year prior to filming. I mean, I took lessons and practiced every day. I took violin lessons and conducting lessons,” he recalls.Even in post-production, Harris has found himself enjoying the music that was in his head for so long.“My iPod is still kind of loaded up with that,” he says with a laugh. However...