Sentences with phrase «of a violin as»

The perfect stringing of violins as the doors open to the grand ballroom, and Belle reaches for her friend's hands, and places one on her waist.

Francois Girard's epic follows the history of a violin as it passes over continents and through lives over the span of three centuries.

Not exact matches

Albert Einstein would famously play the violin as a way of working through some challenging physics problems, and Darwin took long walks.

The 3 - D printed violin, guitar and cello are designed to sit in the musician's arms as a traditional instrument would, but the technology allows for personalization and customization to the size and fit of the musician.

As he explained to a crowd of intellectuals at a event hosted by Zach Todd Liberman and Saumitra Thakur in New York Thursday night, each brilliant person combined a love of the sciences with a love of the arts — Einstein with his violin; Jobs with his calligraphy; Franklin with his kite.

Bird's proclivity for, well, most everything serves him well once again, as each of his songs are punctuated by his piercing whistle (if you haven't heard it, you should stop reading andgo watch this), always spot - on guitar playing and classically trained violin plucking and bowing.

Weddings still contain the appearance of some of these forms, as do some church services that are sprinkled with violin accents that are lamented by strings players as «football scores,» reflecting the shape of the whole notes that they must play repeatedly as a form of musical gingerbread to elevate the tone of the event.

The old argument about the violin, as a material thing, and the tune, as a «spiritual» one, is a pretty fair indication of the position adopted.

They aren't the sum total of our homeschooling, which tends to include a lot of independent reading, independent art projects, sewing and knitting, violin - playing and choral singing, folk - dancing, household responsibilities which I count as elective home - economics credit, and, currently, the launching of an Etsy business to sell some of her hand - knit goods, which experience I can fold into her required economics half - credit.

Music down, violins up, as he talks out the rest of the song)

Furthermore who's to say the «Five Violins» Sporting Lisbon side which came to an end just as modern European competition was coming to fruition was not far greater than the Benfica side of the sixties?Association Football started with domestic cup competitions to discover who was the best practitioner of the sport.

She made it through a tough year of fourth grade, participated in an overnight trip to the Museum of Science (without me or Jon as a chaperone), and signed up for violin and made it through the concert (despite never practicing #badTigerMom).

Reading music is an essential part of Waldorf Education as in Grade 4, students begin to play in a String Orchestra, where they develop their musicianship through playing together on the violin, viola, cello, or double bass.

She grew up as the sixth of seven kids, used to play violin semi-professionally, believes in unicorns, and counts her 58 - hour natural childbirth with her second daughter + meeting Michelle Kwan as among her best life accomplishments.

«The law is merely an instrument, and without the involvement of human hands, it is as lifeless and uninspiring as a violin kept in its case,» Bharara said.

In 1727 he modelled a violin string as a large number of closely spaced point masses, linked together by springs.

It should surprise no one that the body of the violin has changed very little over 400 years since the instrument was invented in 16th century Italy, as generations of violinmakers have simply copied the creations of masters such as Antonio Stradivari (1644 — 1737).

A cranky biochemist named Joseph Nagyvary claims to make violins that sounds as magnifient as the legendary Cremonese master's - and sells them at a fraction of the cost.

These air particles subsequently bump against air particles next to them and so forth, so the wave travels from air particle to air particle — all at the same frequency as the vibration of the violin string.

After spending thousands of dollars on music lessons and instruments for their children, parents often watch in dismay as once - coveted flutes, clarinets, and violins are unceremoniously abandoned.

As a part of VIOLIN, we have developed Vaxign, the first web - based publically available vaccine target design tool based on bioinformatics analysis of genome sequences using the strategy of reverse vaccinology.

You can glue them to a small bottle of hand lotion or any such small item as a gift for somebody special (like a violin teacher or a friend graduating or performing in a recital).

As a huge fan of classical music and a former violin player I would love such a date.

She later spent three years at Stonar School, Atworth, where she learnt to play the violin and was called «Romster», then two years at the City of London School for Girls, with theatre studies as one of her subjects.

Hardcore horror audiences won't find much that's frightening in Insidious: The Last Key — there's not even that wonderfully unsettling shriek of violins under the title this time — but as a delivery system for more great work from Lin Shaye, it more than accomplishes its mission.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

As with most of these patriotic wartime star rallies, the results are a mixed bag: the best sequences include Benny's violin «duel» with Joseph Szigeti and Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers introducing Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In.

Possession is torturous viewing scored and narrated by Gabriel Yared's soaring violins that for as invasive as they are admittedly provide the only insight into the feelings of the characters for one another.

With a haunting theme that's often accompanied by female voice, Del Mar's flowing orchestral melody captures a lyricism that's worthy of Debussy's «La Mer» in communicating the literally transformative effect of nature on man, his lovely themes for aching violin capturing despair and acceptance, playful pizzicatos embodying a renewed sense of hope (as well as endearingly comic crabs) and exotic percussion hearing the mystery of an island and its outlying sea.

A contemporary western, Broken Horses — written and directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra — stars Anton Yelchin and Chris Marquette as a pair of brothers — one enslaved in a life of crime, the other a violin prodigy chasing his dream to become part of the New York Philharmonic — who are reunited in their home town as they try to escape the clutches of a local gangster.

What transpires, scored with occasionally slicing violins by Mark Mothersbaugh, is a mental travelogue of perceived slights, mood swings and parental hope as Brad tries to be the ultimate supportive dad while wrestling with thoughts and behavior that don't always present him in the best light.

So Mickey schemes to snag the violin while posing as a helpful insurance agent so he can be in the good graces of his wife and son again by paying back the money he's wasted.

Eerie voices rise as well in a score that brings to mind the score for the soundtrack for «Perfume» in all of the right ways, along with exotic, Arabic music, Spanish guitar and tender violins also sensuously evoke a sisterly bond beyond the material world.

The violin is a symbol of Solomon's individuality and dignity as a free man, but that is the point.

The horrible screech of the violin would never have been as horrible without the image of flying feathers and fleeing birds.

On a school day last semester, a class of third - graders stroked violins and cellos as their music teacher led them on a baby grand piano.

And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30 pm, as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home, that he is attacked.

From the book jacket: Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story — complete with violin, tobacco - filled Persian slipper, and gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.

Open lesbianism was practically unheard of in the 1940s, but Jinny and Laura (an Italian expatriate who played violin in the Los Angeles Philharmonic and worked as a documentary film producer) were «companions» whose relationship was evident to those in the know, according to Hemingway's Boat author Paul Hendrickson.

As I approached the desk, the strain of a violin rose above the chatter, weaving a cheerful, countrified ribbon of sound through the general uproar.

The most interested passers - by were children, so our story is told from the perspective of a young boy who is enchanted with the violin music, even as his harried mother tries to hurry him along.

In her book, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, author Amy Chua chronicles her struggle to be the ultimate «Tiger Mom», pushing her daughters for As in school, banning TV and video games, and making sure they grew up practicing the violin for hours every day.

Small musical instruments, such as violins or smaller instruments, can be carried instead of hand baggage.

Equipped with a keytar, violin, keyboard, electric guitar, bass, and drums, they inject raw energy into music from games such as Goldeneye 007, Chrono Trigger, and The Legend of Zelda.

He has worked on other titles such as Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, Wing Commander Saga, and contributed his violin mastery to triple - A titles such as Mass Effect 3, Gears of War 3, League of Legends, and others.

Before he started the gallery at the age of 28 in 1983, Martin played the violin, saxophone and keyboards as a professional musician in an orchestra and an ensemble as well as in a rock band, a jazz band and a folk band.

Violinist Stephen Redfield is professor at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Music, is well known as a soloist and chamber musician on both modern and baroque violin.

With sheet metal, tin plate, iron wire, nails, and scraps of wood, he created a life - size guitar, violins, a mandolin, a clarinet, and drinking glasses that elevated the stature of still life to a subject as worthy as portrait heads and standing figures.

Western European instruments can be seen and heard: an accordion plays as it unfolds along the length of a lamp post, a frame drum rolls loudly through a park landscape, a flute trills as it sails off into the sky with a balloon, the chestnuts in a chestnut tree play a gong, and a violin turns on a merry - go - round.

Both Islamic Violins and In Walking Distance are presented as part of the Mitchell Center's INTERSECTIONS, a new Mitchell Center initiative focused on Houston's complex and diverse Muslim population, with an emphasis on the University of Houston's own student body.