Word: violins
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...case Albanian—in the basement. Baseless complaints to a sympathetic boss about the less-senior Columbian, idle gossip spread through the tenant population about the Canadian, active disparagement of the Irish-American—these are the tommy guns in the Doorman Mafia’s violin cases...
...credibility among the scientific community as a potential form of the Unification theory for which Einstein searched in his later years. String theory proposes that all matter is made up of infinitesimally small strings and what they form depends on their vibration, which moves like the vibration of a violin string...
...rare lead guitar, make such a difference that it’s disappointing when most songs offer nothing more than furious rhythm guitar. “Linda Blair Was Born Innocent,” the single exception, is a harmonious blend of single-note guitar plucks and a sweeping violin behind lyrics that have nothing to do with The Exorcist...
...program make for a darker evening. Stravinsky’s “L’histoire du Soldat” is based on a play by the French playwright C.F. Ramuz set to music for septet. It tells the story of a soldier who trades his violin with the devil for magical powers...
...from his mind - Hálek, 66, was after their sound. He found his quarry 10 minutes into his walk: a beautiful Fragile Russula with a purplish top. After a moment of prayer, he reached for a sheet of notepaper and wrote out a short piece for solo violin. "They are all compositions that in some way portray a particular mushroom," he says. As Hálek tells it, he transcribes music that emanates from the fungi...