Sentences with phrase «of the violin at»

It's true that mutual obstinacy between a teacher and me kept me from becoming the Jimi Hendrix of the violin at the age of ten.

Not exact matches

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.

It appeared that his relationship with Holzwarth — dubbed «the violin girl of Silicon Valley» because of her popular performances at tech events — took a lot of dedication.

Lisa Selph's daughter Hannah was being encouraged by her violin teacher to buy a professional - quality instrument at a price of $ 10,000.

Spare me the violins, Giroud has been at Arsenal for 3 seasons, yet hes never scored 20 league goals yet.Definite room for improvement there that only a new personel can bring since hes been here 3 seasons now.All i ask you guys like you is would he start for any of the top teams in the europe?clearly no

A former intern for City Council member Rosie Mendez, Eliot is also co-president of the school yearbook at Manhattan's Bard College HS, writes for the school paper and is teaching herself violin.

It's exceedingly difficult to find measurable differences in the tonal quality of the cherished old violins and more ordinary ones, let alone explain what causes them, comments Colin Gough, physicist and expert on musical acoustics at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Gough sees problems with the new study.

To study how violin contours change over time, Dan Chitwood, a plant biologist and avid viola player at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, analyzed photographs of more than 7000 auctioned violins made between the years of 1560 and 2003.

To obtain information about the mass distribution, the researchers took advantage of the fact that each cantilever, much like a violin string, has many resonant frequencies at which it can vibrate.

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.

Developed by Dylan Menzies at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, the O - Bow uses optical sensors to track the movement of a real violin bow across a groove in a metal instrument.

The lovely violin plots at right show the mean GERP scores (a measure of conservation) for included versus excluded variants in the newborn screening (NBS), age - related macular degeneration (ARMD), and pharmacogenetics (PGx) genes examined.

Her brother was a musical child prodigy and, having started playing the violin at the age of four, she received a scholarship to attend a music school.

At the moment, I'm home on spring break («spring» break that started in February), in the midst of more homework than anticipated, being / playing violin in a wedding, and feeling generally tired.

I love this so much!!!!!! My daughter plays violin & is in Honors Orchestra at her school & she wants to make one of these.

Summary: In 1830, violin virtuoso and notorious womanizer Niccolò Paganini (David Garrett) is at the peak of his career, acclaimed throughout Europe.

In 1830, violin virtuoso and notorious womanizer Niccolò Paganini (David Garrett) is at the peak of his career, acclaimed throughout Europe.

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.

Encouraged by her parents to pursue music, she started playing classical violin at the age of 5.

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.

I don't complain that you practice your violin at three in the morning, that you make a mess of my rooms -

But even Avalos had never met anyone like Danny Houck, the violin - obsessed subject of his irresistible, way - stranger - than - fiction documentary «Strad Style,» which screened this week at Sundance's crosstown rival, Slamdance.

With passion bursting at the seam, and hopelessly hemmed in by not - so book smart intellect, Wadley creates a score of devastating, elegant subtlety, using the naturally sorrowful violin for all of its Ivy League tortured worth, along with a gently regretful piano.

Distinguishing the musical compositions is an aggressive use of the violin, played by Hilary Hahn (who is covered in the scoring featurette) and more apt at encouraging emotional response than the characters or story.

The violin becomes a symbol of his enslavement, to be played only at the whim of one of his masters.

Virtually every control in the cabin — from traditional organ stops and violin - key switches to air vents and door handles — is of such heavy chrome that you will forever snort at cheap imitations.

The «Sherlock Holmes of the Mouse World» plays the flute instead of the violin, but like his upstairs neighbor at 221B Baker Street, he is quite clever at solving mysteries — with the help of his biographer, Dr. Donald Q. Dawson.

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.

He began to rule over his neighborhood like a benevolent emperor, although in spite of his charming smile and his skill at playing his 1745 Guadagnini violin he exuded a heavy, cheap odor, the unmistakable smell of crass, despotic danger, the kind of scent that warned us, look out for this guy, because he could order your execution at any moment, if you're wearing a displeasing shirt, for example, or if he wants...

At the end of the day, my feet were sore, my finger calluses tingled, and the violin case was awkward because the resin - box at the end was weighed down by several pounds of coinAt the end of the day, my feet were sore, my finger calluses tingled, and the violin case was awkward because the resin - box at the end was weighed down by several pounds of coinat the end was weighed down by several pounds of coins.

Outside of work Dr. Wilson enjoys traveling, spending time in the outdoors, reading, and playing the violin and bass guitar at her church.

With live violin music drifting into the moonlight, the al fresco dining at this beachfront ristorante offers one of Maui's most romantic settings (and there's a lot of competition).

At 4 p.m., composer and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi assembles an inter-generational quartet in a set of improvised music accompanied by Miya Masaoka on the koto, Erica Dicker on the violin, and Andria Nicodemou on the vibraphone.

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.

(23.7 cm) diameter Courtesy the artist and bitforms gallery, New York Amor Muñoz Mexican, born 1979 Rhythmic Manufacture, 2015/2017 Watercolor on paper, metronome, table, coverall, clock, and HD video with sound Performance at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 12 — 15, 2017 Dimensions variable Video production: 32K Productions Courtesy the artist Camille Norment American, born 1970 Lull, 2016 Dynamic sound installation with pendulum microphone Dimensions variable Courtesy the Camille Norment Studio O Grivo (Nelson Soares and Marcos Moreira Marcos) Active since 1990, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Cantilena, 2017 Kinetic sound installation (wood, bamboo, MDF, copper pipes, brass rods and sheets, steel rods, violin and guitar strings, nylon wires, iron sheets, galvanized steel sheets, brass paper, electrical wires, and electric motors) Overall dimensions variable San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase Susan Philipsz Scottish, born 1965 Night and Fog (Clarinet), 2016 Twelve - channel sound installation, 47 min.

Quanshuai Li (violin) is a graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and is pursuing a master's degree at Lamont.

The Sebastian Ensemble — with Stephen Redfield on violin; Susan Patrick, harpsichord; and Katie Rietman, cello — is a group dedicated to the performance of Baroque chamber music on original instruments at low pitch.

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.

All hail the death of «still lifes,» paintings which incorporated over-ornamentalized baked clay pottery, flowers sheared and arranged in water at their height of bloom, damask and linen made from once - living plants, mandolins and violins set out with all their elaborate fittings and gold filigree — once trees; -LSB-...]

Please join us: Saturday, January 21, 2006, 9PM, at Mercer Union FREE For the second in our series of 10 Music In Alternative Spaces concerts, Montréal based violinist Clemens Merkel (Quatour Bozzini, Kore, Wandelweiser) will give a rare performance of l'hiver monastique — 70 consolations harmoniques pour violon, a 70 - minute work for solo violin, written -LSB-...]

«VIOLENCE» crosses in the centre to create two sides of the triangle; «SILENCE» forms the base; and «VIOLINS» produce two arms rising upwards at either side.

The program includes the world premiere of Scarred Landscape for viola and cello by Theo Chandler and inspired by the work of artist Richard Armandariz; Time is a Cage for solo violin by Suzanne Farrin, Meta4 for string quartet by San Antonio - born Robert X. Rodriguez; and Respite for solo violin by Ethan Wickman who currently teaches at University of Texas at San Antonio.

ARTISTS: Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, and John Miller (sometimes featuring Greg Parma Smith) SOUND: Distorted, at times minimal instrumental music fusing Conrad's violin with Koether's Euro - inflected synths and Miller's looping guitar WHAT THEY DO: A real thinking man's art supergroup, XXX Macarena unites three artistic visionaries who each come from a different corner of the art world — Conrad is a legend in avant - garde video and sound art (he made the landmark, epilepsy - inducing film The Flicker in 1966), Koether is a hypercerebral painter, and Miller is a multitalented artist and critic who teaches at Columbia.

There are signs of an awakening, including the great steroids and baseball animation from the National Center for Atmospheric Researcher and a violin and graphic presentation developed by S. Julio Friedmann while he was the chief energy technologist at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

While a student at the University of Minnesota was creating a cello composition around the last 130 years of global temperature change, a couple of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory were producing a similar composition, for digital violin and with a much longer score — charting more than 600 years of climate variations and recent warming:

George Monbiot put in an appearance at Climate Progress just a couple of days ago, playing a mournful violin sonata about how Phil Jones had disrespected the work of selfless journalists by losing his patience with toddlers bearing reams of FOI requests.

The other armoured man grunted in agreement and poked at a half finished instrument on the bench beside him, a violin, looking vulnerable as a newborn, pale, naked, full of curves, its ultimate lineaments only suggested.

At my present place of work, I am lovingly referred to as the jack of all instruments and master of most, as I am deeply familiar with playing guitars, drums, keyboards and violins.