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...Greece, Rome and Israel were very far from bustling, nouveau-riche young America. Mount, a farmer's boy from Setauket, Long Island (a suburb today, deep country then), was very much part of that America, a country inventor who made his own boats and believed that a "hollow-backed" violin he had designed was better than anything from Cremona. Sensibly, he set out to record (and idealize) what he knew: the everyday rural life that was the protein of Jacksonian democracy at the dawn of the Age of the Common Man. He got an assist from Hogarth, whose prints...
...King David played the violin. The prophets produced their prophecies through music. So nobody who really follows the Torah can say music has any contradiction with Jewish life...
...piece "Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra" won the $150,000 Grawmeyer Award from the University of Louisville...
They included Joe Lin '98 on violin, accompanied by Melinda T.W. Lee '98; two vocal performances by A. Ryan Leslie '98; and a musical number from This End Up, the first-year musical...
...piece "Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra" won the $150,000 Grawmeyer Award from the University of Louisville...