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...What is your earliest memory?A pond in front of the building where I used to live in Caracas. I was maybe two. The fish were huge, all colours. You could almost touch them....
..., played impressively from memory by Johan Dalene, represents a single dragonfly coasting the air currents....
...The springiness of a good antique violin bow often comes from being made of Pernambuco wood — a slow-growing and now protected Amazon species....
...Perhaps people with memories of a world war were more willing to acknowledge the role that luck — good and bad — plays in life....
...Elizabeth Watts was the radiant soprano, who not only sang the songs from memory, but also conducted. The other items were all for string orchestra, led from the violin by Marcus Barcham Stevens....
...My hands felt too large for the violin, and the viola seemed a bit too similar to the violin. So there was only cello left.”...
...I can make the sound of a violin from Ethiopia and Eritrea that doesn’t have a fingerboard....
...It displays poignant relics of the tragedy, including the violin played by band leader Wallace Hartley as the ship went down and one of only six surviving deckchairs bearing the White Star Line’s logo....
...Cue those tiny violins! Everything they tell you about bereavement is true. Of course, it hits us in different ways. Events take a while to process....
...I’m friendly with the violinist Nicola Benedetti – to see her playing her violin like that is just a joy. Or Sinatra – I thought he was fantastic, and got to know him....
...There’s no memory of how they got here, says Said. “Maybe they were built thousands of years ago. You couldn’t build them today because the stones are too big....
...Birmingham’s Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducted upstage by David Briskin and led by Robert Gibbs’s superb first violin, provided a living backcloth to the dance....
...Midway through, a seven-piece string section swells underneath the music, the violins eventually taking over the melody....
...The sets are penny-plain, but film projections are effectively used to show the memories of a better past; in any case there is hardly any need to pep up this tale....
...Taraf de Caliu, an offshoot of Taraf de Haidouks, played cimbalom and twin violins at unstoppable speed....
...“They may not be here, but their memory runs through your veins.” The only song in English is “Last Night”, a setting of a poem by the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi....
...It becomes a stage, a setting for some part of our lives, even if it was only a week, and we store those memories like treasure....
...Olive’s lockdown is an occasion for family time, reactive recreation and a few wistful memories of intercontinental book promotion....
...So much so that when Shelley created the programme around the new Glass symphony — commissioned to honour the memory of Peter Jennings, the Canadian-American broadcaster — it seemed entirely natural to include...
...Both were dirt-poor; Archipenko, singing in a “deep and warm” baritone, accompanied by Léger on the violin, sometimes survived by busking....
...Kaiser Wilhelm II had memories of holidaying there, and dispatched German architects to rebuild the port....
...The closing track, “Titan”, remembers both the Glastonbury Festival (a fixture when the album was written; now a two-year gap in the collective memory) and the “rockets” with whom Lyall travelled to Somerset...
...The parable of the soldier who sells his violin, and thereby his soul, to the devil drew from Stravinsky writing with a pinpoint ear for instrumental timbre that he made his speciality....
...I never used to worry about memory in the Bach suites and now you’ve put the idea in my mind, I’m terrified.’”...
...The power of music to evoke half-forgotten memories echoes down the years in Marcel Proust’s expansive novel À la recherche du temps perdu....
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