Word: violins
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...that wartime here is without joy. At least the local violin player is feasting. Maura Kropke plays at weddings, and Marines have been making her cell phone dance. "Put it this way: I'm doing a whole lot of Tuesday-morning and Wednesday-afternoon weddings lately," she says. "They plan a wedding in three days, and they pull it off, no matter what, even in downpours. I've seen brides coming down the aisle with umbrellas held over them...
...principal inspiration was my father, who founded our Bombay Symphony and was its concertmaster. He taught violin and played quartets in our house. When he left us for four years during the '40s to study with the great violin teacher Ivan Galamian in New York City, there was less music at home. I played piano, and I listened to recorded music incessantly, every free moment I had. By the time he came back, I knew at least by ear most of the major works of the symphonic repertoire...
...never had a baton. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was conducting. I had wanted to be a conductor since I started helping my father with his orchestra. When he was preparing at home for rehearsals, I would conduct and he would play the violin part...
According to Weinstein, sibling rivalry was his introduction to music. “When I was eight, I said to my dad, ‘Rachel [his older sister]...dances and plays violin,’ and for whatever reason, he recommended I try guitar.” He started lessons with a neighbor, but summer music camp and the jazz program at Cambridge Rindge and Latin made him more serious about music...
Splayed across the stage were an array of instruments. A piano, a violin and a drumset were the most conventional of the collection, accompanied by empty water jugs, couch cushions and a table full of ringing cell phones. Props were used as devices for acting as well as to create sound...