Sentences with phrase «of violin playing»

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

The site features a variety in - your - face headshots, and there's also a «rare» selection of images that includes a real gem of Travolta playing the violin.

Although its easy to hear the tiny violins playing, the article does note that serious issues can come from having a huge amount of money — more depression, anxiety, and other psychological problems can arise when a big amount of money comes into someones life:

Fifth - grader Isabella Nicola Cabrera dreamed of playing the violin.

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.

If a violin had been made in the first place by Antonio Stradivari himself and if skilled hands had played upon it the compositions of the masters, any cheap endeavor to make it hiccup with syncopated jazz would be resented.

I was born into a communist family.I went to a school of music and learned to play violin...

In a piece for the Washington Post entitled «Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,» Chua explains how her children were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a play date, be in a school play, watch TV, choose any of their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, or play any instrument other than piano or violin.

On one occasion we were trying to talk above the noise of the seven children — a violin was being played in one room, a piano in another.

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.

It is extremely hard for our President to run a country of such diversity and yet play the violin for each and every special interest group that steps upon his welcome mat.

There were a few moments where the violin and cello played harmonies where I felt overwhelmed by what we had the privilege of watching and listening to.

Guitar blows my mind — having come from violin, where it takes YEARS to produce anything that sounds good, the reality that you can learn a few chords and start playing along with your favorite songs in a matter of days is CRAZY AWESOME.

Children can learn the fundamentals of playing the guitar, drums, violin, xylophone and more.

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.

Playing violin gave them sense of control.

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.

Today on the way to a pool play date, I was preoccupied with thoughts of the start of school next week, the neighborhood playgroup I am trying to start for my youngest, the violin lessons I wanted to look into for my oldest, the birthday present I need to mail for my sister, and the blog post I needed to come up with to wrap up Car Week on Baby Bunching.

«Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins, and show me skinny people looking sad.

Professional violinists were unable to distinguish five of Stradivari's violins from six newer instruments during a blind playing test.

When the researchers attached the sensor to a violin playing the wedding tune «Salut d'Amour» by British composer Edward Elgar, for example, the resistance of the device varied in sync with air vibration produced by the instrument, correctly recording every note of the song.

Amid tough cases, Holmes's pipe smoking, violin playing and trips to the symphony are not just quirks — they are his way of stimulating the creative process through mental and physical distance.

Lobsters startle their predators by playing the biological equivalent of a violin, a graduate student from Duke University has discovered.

Mechanical engineer David Perry of OpenFab PDX has designed this full - sized, 3 - D printable, electric violin which you can actually play.

It is easier to play than a real violin because the musician does not have to moderate the downward pressure of the bow onto the string, one of the trickiest elements of playing a violin.

They were akin to a violin with only one string and no fingerboard, capable of playing only one note (ignore for the moment that musical notes are much richer than pure tones).

For example, if you are learning how to play the violin, you may be internally motivated by your love of the instrument, but also externally motivated by your parents» pride or your hope that the skill will help you get into a better college.

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.

The decision she made ultimately would help her to rise to rock stardom, playing electric violin with some of today's top bands.

And considering I played violin for 13 years with an hour of practice every day, an hour a week of guitar is not too difficult to find time for.

Getting the Most Out of Coach Training: A Social Experiment A couple of years ago a musician was playing his violin in a Washington DC Metro Station in the winter.

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.

Regardless of the destination, a good blowjob is all about the journey, and learning how to play your man like a well - tuned violin.

I play guitar, some violin and i tiny bit of piano.

I love a variety of things — singing in my Church Choir, playing my violin for special music, baking for the Church Visitor Ministry, horseback riding, hunting, camping, fishing, hiking, reading, sports, movies, helping others and enjoying...

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.

Blocker is the kind of distressing, morally discordant antihero that Christian Bale can play like a Stradivarius violin.

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

And the grandfather is playing the violin, and that fades out to be replaced with a piece of the electronic score.

Filmmaker Bernard Rose gives the period biopic a kick in the seat of the pants with this raucously creepy drama about 19th century violin virtuoso Nicolo Paganini, who played so innovatively that people thought he...

In the case of 12 Years a Slave, the subject is played out on human bodies and in objects: a single sheet of precious foolscap writing paper, the juice of berries, a violin.

There, the only hint of his musical past was revealed when he periodically played the violin in the park while standing beneath a statue of Ludwig Van Beethoven.

She is reminiscent of every black widow woman from every film noir ever made: Lana Turner wrapping John Garfield around her little finger in «The Postman Always Rings Twice» or Barbara Stanwyck playing Fred MacMurray like a violin in «Double Indemnity.»

Florence, who plays classical violin in a string quartet, is a child of wealth.

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.

Itzhak Perlman's violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life.

When his wife and children take a trip for several weeks, he agrees to play violin for a band of traveling thespians, hoping to collect a paycheck.