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Like Frank Doel, Stephanie Anderson in Duet for One has the plucky, soldiering-on English temperament. Beneath it, however, is a violin virtuoso's rage at being felled by multiple sclerosis. The role, played on Broadway by Bancroft, now extracts one of Julie Andrews' strongest performances. Fighting the disease and its accompanying despair, stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence...
...hands are far from delicate, but the impression of them on the helm is something like that. "Feels more like a bull fiddle today than a violin," Conner muses to himself, and the wheel is some kind of concert instrument clearly. In a continuous search where one-tenth of a knot is considered a quantum find, he is thought to be worth a full knot himself. Puffs of wind can be calibrated on his shoulder blades. Tiny fractions of speed are visible to him on the sails. Like a fastidious haberdasher, he is constantly pinching and reshaping the fabric...
...BERG: VIOLIN CONCERTO; THREE ORCHESTRAL PIECES (CBS). Violinist Pinchas Zukerman and Conductor Pierre Boulez in two powerful 20th century landmarks...
...girl who wrote me and told me that I was totally wrong about Duluth. She's in seventh grade, has been playing the violin since she was a toddler and was skipping the Saturday night hockey game to go to a dance. Maybe her first...
...think those people get very angry with reporters who tell them otherwise....A lot of people who haven't really dealt closely with Israel tend to imagine Israel as an entire country of highly educated Western Jews where every colonel is a chess master and every general plays the violin...