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...that he is not a family man. "You Americans, you always have to have a conventional image of a father and a daughter," he chided. "That image makes people happy, but not my daughter and me. It's nice, but..." Then Papa Marcello sawed away on an imaginary violin...
...Chekhov's story Rothschild's Fiddle, a Russian wills his violin to a Jew. Afterward, writes Chekhov, Rothschild plays a melody "so passionately sad and full of grief that the listeners weep ... and force him to play it as many as ten times." In Passions, Isaac Bashevis Singer's new collection, all 20 tales recall the earlier story, with its Russian theme transmuted by vibrant Yiddish inflection...
Gerry Moshell and his fall pickup orchestra, the Kirkland Concertgebouw, will deliver the well-loved Grieg piano concerto and Mendelssohn violin concerto Saturday night. Starring will be the dynamic violin-piano duo of Lynn Chang and Richard Kogan, who will also perform solo works of Chopin and Tartini. At 8, with a repeat performance at 11; Kirkland...
...better view of the visitor, dressed splendidly in a braided gold miter and brocade cope. As they watched, the prelate moved in front of a large table, pronouncing the words of blessing with a Maurice Chevalier accent and making the sign of the Cross over hammers and screwdrivers, a violin, a teacher's notebook, a housewife's wooden spoon, an artist's brushes...
Joplin's musical genius was enormous and precocious. He was born in 1868 at Texarkana into a family that took music as its birthright. The father, a laborer, played the violin; the mother sang and picked banjo. Joplin started out on the guitar and bugle, but at age seven discovered the piano and was soon teaching himself to improvise...