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  Violinist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin.
Sometimes violinists can be identified by a red fleck on the left side of their neck, commonly known as the violin hickey.
List of violinists Because western styles of music use the violin heavily, violinists have a wide range of music styles to choose from.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Violinist   (290 words)

  
 Violin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Violinists oscillate backwards, or lower in pitch from the actual note when using vibrato, since perception favors the highest pitch in a varying sound.
Violinists carry replacement strings with their instruments to have one available in case a string breaks.
The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument are documented during the first decades of the 20th century.
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 The Violinist'
Stated in another way, the more a violinist succeeds in accomplishing his second (the technical means), the more venturous he can become; his imagination increasingly liberated, he sets his sights higher in the initial aim, the concept of the music.
Many violinists experience difficulty in their ability to stretch sufficiently andndash in the left hand in order to play tenths and fingered octaves; and in the right arm, for the purpose of getting to the point of the bow easily and in applying sufficient pressure in the upper half.
The violinist is being asked to produce a greater and more varied range of dynamics than ever before - the modern concert hall, heavier bows and strings, the demands of composers pose formidable problems for modern violin techniques.
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 Right to Choose
It is an unfortunate consequence that the violinist dies in the process.
Thomson says that if the violinist only needed to be connected to your kidneys an hour to be cured and your health would be in no way permanently affected, in fact the only thing you would have to endure is being inconvenienced for an hour.
It addresses the issue of whether or not it is morally permissible to abort a fetus and does succeed in defending her claim that it is sometimes morally permissible to abort the fetus.
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 Encyclopedia: Violinist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 to 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in help me im dieing the beginning and end points).
Violinists often change positions on the lower strings, sometimes to the consternation of composers and much to the confusion of beginners.
When the violinist stops the string with the first finger, and touches it lightly with the fourth finger in this way, the node one-fourth of the way along the string is touched, and the string will vibrate in four parts, sounding a tone two octaves above the note that is stopped (in this case, E).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Violinist   (701 words)

  
 Violinist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At just 26 years of age, the internationally acclaimed violinist has already transformed from a super-talent of the moment into an artist of lasting consequence...
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. -- An 81-year-old violinist critically burned in a Santa Clarita house fire was discharged from a hospital, and his son and grandson...
Vietnamese American violinist and promoter is near his goal of opening a performing arts center.
www.wikiverse.org /violinist   (202 words)

  
 VOLODJA BALZALORSKY - CONCERT VIOLINIST
Violinist Berent Korfker recieved great reviews on his last CD, plays the beautiful "King Max-Joseph" Stradivarius and recently became assistant to the famous russian violin teacher Zakhar Bron.
Virtuoso violinist and chair of violin studies at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Born in 1987, Emmanuel Borowsky is one of the most outstanding violinists of his generation.
www.classicol.com /Violin/Links.cfm?ID=1044   (590 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel shocked by image of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock
The violinist, Wissam Tayem, was on his way to a music lesson near Nablus when he said an Israeli officer ordered him to "play something sad" while soldiers made fun of him.
Yoram Kaniuk, author of a book about a Jewish violinist forced to play for a concentration camp commander, wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the soldiers responsible should be put on trial "not for abusing Arabs but for disgracing the Holocaust".
While the officer responsible for killing Iman al-Hams has been charged with relatively minor offences, and the soldiers who forced the violinist to play were ticked off for being "insensitive", the only troops who were swiftly punished for violating regulations last week were some who posed naked in the snow for a photograph.
www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1361755,00.html   (1007 words)

  
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His marvelous success as violinist in the leading capitals of Europe, together with many brilliant contributions to the literature of his instrument, had long been favorably commented on by the critics of the old world.
As the violinist turned to the conductor he faced slightly to the left and in a direct line with the second proscenium box.
The violinist examined the instrument with the practised eye of an expert, and turning to Satan said: ``The four strings are beautifully white and transparent, but this one is fl and odd looking.
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 Violinist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sometimes violinists can be identified by a fleck on the left side of their This is due to long contact of corpus of the violin with the neck the players normally hold on their left To freely move the left hand to the strings the violine is mostly only by the neck and the shoulder.
Lovers of the violin and modern art will enjoy this fascinating story of Louis Kaufman (1905-1994), known as "a violinist's violinist" during his career from the 1920s to the 1970s, and one of the first American violinists to be celebrated worldwide.
Jascha Heifetz was undoubtedly the greatest violinist of the 20th Century, performing in theaters throughout the world and to audiences enraptured by the beauty of his musical gi...
www.freeglossary.com /Violinist   (394 words)

  
 Violinist Adrian Anantawan
When Ida Kavafian, the renowned violinist who teaches at the Curtis, heard Anantawan for the first time in live preliminary rounds, she sensed something special.
Anantawan wears a prosthetic device that holds his bow, and the Curtis adjudicators hadn't been told that this applicant was any different from the other 80 violinists who had been given the green light this year to audition for Curtis' seven open violin slots.
She will also coach his ability to change the direction of his bow as smoothly as possible; since he does not use all of the bow, he switches from up-bow to down-bow more often than other violinists.
www.cello.org /heaven/disabled/nohand.htm   (1235 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Violinists: Huberman Bronislaw
The violinist, narrowly missed death on Oct. 6, 1937, in a plane crash near Palembang, Sumatra.
bronislaw huberman The Polish violinist bronislaw huberman, born in 1882, madehis debut as soloist in a Spohr violin concerto at the age of seven.
The Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, born in 1882, made his debut as soloist in a Spohr violin concerto at the age of seven.
www.geometry.net /detail/violinists/huberman_bronislaw.html   (2640 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Violinists: Bell Joshua
By 12 he was serious about the instrument thanks in large part to the inspiration of renowned violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold, who had become his beloved teacher and mentor.
Born in Bloomington, Ind., Bell received his first violin at age 5 and was seriously committed to the instrument by age 12, when he met renowned violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold, who became his teacher and mentor.
He received his first violin at age five and was seriously committed to the instrument by age twelve, when he had the privilege to meet renowned violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold, who became his beloved teacher and mentor.
www.geometry.net /detail/violinists/bell_joshua.html   (3253 words)

  
 Violinist of Hameln Review Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Meanwhile, in Staccato, a village that allows no outsiders, a young violinist awakes to find a horn has grown atop his head.
Soon, he will make a journey of discovery that will reveal the horrible truth of his identity, as the world is faced with the greatest conflict of all time.
"Violinist of Hameln" ("Hameln No Baorin-Hiki") is a show that, despite its brilliance, never achieved the popularity it deserved.
home.pacbell.net /acheuk/z.hameln.html   (328 words)

  
 The Highway Violinist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He's known as the "Highway Violinist," and he's becoming an obsession for the thousands of people who drive the northbound side of the Henry Hudson parkway.
A reporter from the Fishwrap followed the Highway Violinist until he reached his final destination, the Fieldston campus in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
He decided to become the Highway Violinist after Jonathan Hess, 41, Violinist's uncle, said he would give the Violinist $100 to perform the stunt for the first time.
hiroshi.freeshell.org /hwyvln2.html   (440 words)

  
 Violinist play links US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For their second project in an exclusive relationship with Nonesuch, the violinist and his Baltic-based ensemble offer a meditative collection of 20th century works imbued with the pure intensity of approach that is the hallmark of their style.
When Gideon Davies, a 28-year-old virtuoso violinist, finds himself center stage and unable to play, his tortured search for his music--and for the truth behind the appalling event that shaped his life--will lead him to the very heart of love's darkest manifestations.
Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted.
playus.dunmarsh.com /play/violinist.html   (1280 words)

  
 Abortion and Thomson's Violinist:  Unplugging a Bad Analogy
To Thomson, unwanted pregnancy and the unconscious violinist are morally equivalent cases.
She argues that neither the stranger nor the mother owes the needed life support; the stranger may unplug himself from the violinist, and the mother may unplug herself from her child.
In Thomson's analogy the sequence is: The violinist develops a fatal kidney problem, his friends go to his aid; they capture an innocent stranger and plug the violinist into him; the stranger unplugs himself, which lets the violinist die.
www.l4l.org /library/thomviol.html   (2025 words)

  
 Violinist Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ AlienArtifacts.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Musicians Collection, Folder List F-K
Marietta, opera singer (2) fc 2 Geiger, John, violinist (4) ofc Geiser, Harold, and His Presentation Orchestra (11) fc 2 Gentle, Alice, mezzo-soprano (3) fc 2 Gérardy, Jean, cellist.
Photo, 1906 fc 2 Holly Sisters (Jean and Janis), violinists (2) fc 2 Holmès, Augusta, composer fc 2 Homer, [Louise], contralto fc 2 Hometown Jazz Band, The (2) fc 2 Hopkins, Linda, singer fc 2 Horn, Charles Edward, composer.
Clipping fc 2 Koshetz, Alexander, conductor fc 2 Kostelanetz, André, conductor fc 2 Koussevitzky, Serge, conductor fc 2 Kreisler, Fritz, violinist.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/musicians.folder.f-k.html   (2637 words)

  
 Lara St. John - Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The reason for this misplaced attention to her gowns and CD covers (which are provocative only from the puritanical standpoint of classical music traditionalists) is that St. John possesses a physically-commanding stage presence.
But it was hardly needed with the dynamic presence of violinist Lara St. John, who took the famous solo in the four concertos labeled Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
When London, Ont.-born violinist Lara St. John released her debut disc in 1996, classical music purists raised their eyebrows at the 24-year-old's semi-dressed pose on the album cover.
www.larastjohn.com   (3948 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hip-hop violinist infects Billboard charts - Apr 26, 2004
Violinist Miri Ben-Ari can be heard on songs by Janet Jackson, Twista and Kanye West.
The classically trained violinist grew up near Tel-Aviv, not Brooklyn, but the top names in the rap industry recognized her talent and embraced her like a sister.
One might think the tight community of violinists in New York would view such a leap with critical eyes, but it's quite the opposite.
edition.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/26/hip.hop.violinist   (504 words)

  
 Antonio Pontarelli - Prodigy Rock Violinist
Winning violin competitions since he was barely 7 years old, he has performed with numerous Grammy and Emmy winners, played on stage with major orchestras and jazz bands and has been a composer and performing artist for national television and film.
Antonio is often called a music prodigy violinist because of his unique ability to improvise and draw from a palette of numerous genres and create an exciting musical journey with notes.
He is in demand as a studio musician and performing artist in the music entertainment industry and is currently composing a soundtrack with rock violin for a movie.
www.antoniomusic.com   (297 words)

  
 International musicians list - classical violin players
I am a violinist and have studied with R. Pancarowitz and C. Terrel here in the U.S. I have been playing for 8 years and I am 16.I am also attending The Governors School for The Arts at NSU and ODU.
The violinist IRINA MARIA LUPESCU (born 1979, September the 23 rd — Bucharest) began to study the violin at the age of 5.
The violinist IRINA MARIA LUPESCU (born 1979,September the 23 rd — Bucharest), she graduated the Jerusalem Academy of Music at the class of Maestro AVY ABRAMOVICH.
www.musicianspage.com /musicians-list/instrumentalists/violin/classical.html   (2863 words)

  
 CD Baby: THE MAD VIOLINIST: Just A Taste   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I have to give it to The Mad Violinist for this album and that "I'm High" song he did on the T-Pain album.
The Mad Violinist definately is versitile and multi-talented.
I thought I heard a violinist with taste when I heard Miri Ben-Ari, but this guy totally changed the way I hear a violin.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/madviolinist   (903 words)

  
 Violinist Georges Enesco/George Enescu and The Remington Recordings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Older generations and knowledgeable musiclovers remember him not just as a composer or a conductor but as the great violinist who concertized in many countries and who educated Arthur Grumiaux, Ivry Gitlis and Christian Ferras, but most of all the name of Yehudi Menuhin will be linked to the famous Roumanian.
It was during this stay that he - on the instigation of violinist Helen Airoff, also a pupil of his - recorded Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo for Don Gabor's Continental label.
The violinist Enesco proposed an astonishing mixture of virtuoso gypsy style and severety, but possessed above all an incomparable sonority, the imprint of an infallable melancholy and at the same time a muted rudeness.
www.soundfountain.com /remenes.html   (2018 words)

  
 Leo Sushansky - Violinist
Violinist Leonid Sushansky has been applauded widely for his compelling musical personality, solid violin technique and beautiful tone.
Growing up with the sounds of the violin in St.Petersburg, Russia, he began musical studies with his mother (Rimma Sushanskaya), a violinist and pupil of David Oistrakh.
During his teen years, every summer he was a frequent guest soloist with the legendary Seufert Band, getting the opportunity and the invaluable experience of performing the major violin concerto's and solo works for thousands in the Concerts in the Parks in New York City.
www.geocities.com /lee16now/Sushansky_Violinist.html   (745 words)

  
 ABC News: Male Violinist Sues Philharmonic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
NEW YORK Jul 22, 2005 — A male violinist claims in a lawsuit that the New York Philharmonic gave preferential treatment to female musicians.
Meanwhile, seven women violinists won permanent jobs or rose above him in the section, according to his sex discrimination suit, filed Thursday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court.
But violinist Fiona Simon, chairwoman of the orchestra committee, which represents the musicians, said no discrimination had occurred.
abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/LegalCenter/wireStory?id=967377   (209 words)

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