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...Cafe, Yarrow considers as much a type of personal expression as a cafe tailored to catch customers. "Running a coffee house can often have its thrilling moments. Last week someone brought in a recorder and I played the violin. This is the sort of thing that makes it really worthwhile." The coffee house atmosphere is one of civilization, Yarrow finds. The Cafe Mozart would seem to be his attempt to prove that the moment of truth can be found in good company and over a cup of fine coffee...
Star cellists are a lot rarer than piano or violin virtuosos. A brilliant and (to the West) virtually unknown cellist made an appearance in East Berlin last week that left listeners surprised and breathless. Soviet Russia's Daniel Shafran, 34, turned out to be a sometime prodigy (the Soviets bought him his Amati cello when he was only 14) who today may have no equal among the younger generation of cellists...
...Walter and Furtwangler, but his illness had left him eccentric. The first time he conducted at the opera house he wore high leather boots, took them off in the middle of the performance. During rehearsal, he became so enraged at a violinist that he grabbed the man's violin and smashed it over his head. Nightly, at the city's cafes, he scolded waiters, flirted with local beauties and pounded out jazz on the cafe piano...
Nude With Violin (by Noel Coward) is, more accurately, Noel with one string to his bow. The play concerns a just-dead and extremely famous painter who, it turns out, had never painted a single one of his pictures. As the painter's cheeky, in-on-the-swindle valet. Coward buzzes about while the dead man's family try to hush things up and cope with the actual painter-and potential blackmailer. Then it turns out that there was also a second painter. And, for that matter, a third-and a fourth. Though Coward has carefully varied...
Repeating over and over the same joke -it can hardly be termed satire-Nude With Violin can scarcely help growing wearisome. What is worse, the play is at no point notably gay. Actor Coward is by all odds Playwright Coward's greatest asset; and as a special gentleman's gentleman-or rascal's rascal-he is perfectly placed for the goofy badinage, studied insolences, posh billingsgate and pecks that leave tooth marks which are Coward's forte. And when, sporting a New Look, he is very suavely going through all the old motions...