Christopher Reuning, the owner of Reuning & Son Violins, an appraiser and dealer of violins in Boston, said it was not uncommon for stolen violins to be sold to a pawnshop at a very low price.
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With this very high melody in the first violins and second violins, as though already in this place there is an aura.
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One study pitted old Italian violins like Strads against modern violins in a blind test to see if musicians could tell the difference.
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The new seating arrangement — which he settled on after listening with the rest of the music staff to the orchestra play "Swan Lake" in both configurations — splits the violins, so that the first violins sit on the conductor's left and the second violins on his right, and moves the woodwinds to the middle of the pit.
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Antonio Stradivari made his violins from it three centuries ago.
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I'm sorry, but I just can't take out the violins.
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Add back just the violins and it still isn't right.
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The soundtrack is all rumbling low sounds and screeching violins.
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Does this part feel like the violins are about to start?
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The Scherzo zipped along with crisply dispatched passagework in the violins.
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Cue an orchestra of tiny violins playing the score of Disney's Fantasia!
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Some liutaia make as few as six or seven violins a year.
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Eventually, I wrote this piece for 10 violins and 10-channel speakers.
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And then the electronics take over the lines the violins were playing.
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But the music is carried by lyrical, melodic stretches in the violins.
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On top of this, two violins play politely interlocking canons and patterns.
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To me, the violins were much more emotive and much more 'dolce.
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Violins and trombones are built for the express purpose of making musical sounds.
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The long sobs of autumn's violins wound my heart with a monotonous languor.
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His early musical compositions, like "Four Violins" (21990), were high-volume sustained drones.
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Screaming goats, tiny violins, and remote-controlled venomous arachnids, we've got you covered.
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") and GEE STRINGS, primarily because it's a silly clue ("'Wow, you have violins!
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Mr. McPherson has deployed a string section made up of theater's smallest violins.
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Minivans and aging Volvos are packed with violins and well-worn soccer gear.
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Unsettlingly, the second violins are tuned ever so slightly lower than the firsts.
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To understand, it may help to consider violins and the California spiny lobster.
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Spare a thought for Bargemusic, though: Its artistic director and stalwart violinist, Mark Peskanov, joins the Semplice Players to celebrate with Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins in B minor, Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor and Mendelssohn's Octet.
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Unfortunately, it's the same old Soviet routine, just with sequined miniskirts and electronic violins.
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The violins were lined up in glass cases, cellos upright by the front window.
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The tones of the violins sound like the first rays of a new day.
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We are influence by Venetians, who have more major chords, mandolins, violins and guitars.
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His dad helped him source violins from China, which he began selling to music shops.
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Johnson had at least two violins, so he could play concerts without the stolen Strad.
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Show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad.
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If there were music it would be played by violins to accompany this dramatic image.
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There is a limited supply of superb violins, and they tend to be terribly expensive.
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Rare violins sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even, in some cases, millions.
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According to David Schoenbaum's book "The Violin," his workshop produced more than three thousand violins.
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It's the violins that do it—they inspire all sorts of strange feelings and emotions.
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When the violins and cellos enter, those instruments at first also play high, scratchy sounds.
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The violins began to double the singers, while the winds played extravagant swirls around them.
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The Totenbergs turned to Rare Violins of New York, which restores and sells the instruments.
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Steve Reich's "Duet," for two violins and orchestra, is a wonderful distillation of his processes.
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Even so, the promise of those violins turns out to come with lots of provisos.
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Your heart leaps when the beat finally drops; your skin prickles when the violins swell.
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One of the sopranos squashed it with her foot and kicked it toward the violins.
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The runners will wear shoes that have been individually tuned, as if they were violins.
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They have violins tucked under chins covered with masks, drumsticks swinging in black-gloved hands.
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Whose day allows them to sit around thinking about accordions dressing up like bass violins?
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P.S. 11 in Brooklyn received 15 instruments form Stephen s collection, including cellos, violins and flutes.
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This is important, since traditional instruments, like violins, pianos, or guitars, require the use of hands.
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Robert Davis, a chiropractor in Sophia, West Virginia, spends his spare time making violins by hand.
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I know a guy who makes those as if he were building violins for Pinchas Zukerman.
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Man, every time people hear those violins in the beginning, it's like electric in the air.
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It's like a symphony: "Remove the violins and the woodwinds," Dr. Klee wrote in an email.
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He spent the next several years on a 60-page review of research on Cremonese violins.
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I always think of the swells of violins in "Psycho" that often wound up signifying nothing.
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The business-like delivery of these lines stops the violins from playing and keeps the action grounded.
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When the violins get screechy, and you suspect the killer is about the pounce, your stomach clenches.
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Over his long career, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote hundreds of fugues for everything from violins to harpsichords.
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Yesterday's standout performances are therefore a mixed bag the obvious and the unexpected—with lots of violins.
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You can buy anything from old violins to vintage clothes to bow ties just outside the hotel.
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A family of stilt walkers playing violins and dressed in Renaissance garb nearly careened into passers-by.
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Silence often operates the way the violins do in "Jaws," as a warning that something sinister awaits.
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Once activated, the cabinet's small doors open to reveal three violins, and the whole instrument starts playing.
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Yet the disjointed orchestra grumbles ominously in its depths while miniature violins play weirdly high, skittish sounds.
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Just don't complain to anyone if you do, lest they start playing their own tiny violins in response.
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In both places these experts agreed that the new violins projected sound better than the old ones did.
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A 2008 study found that the wood density of Stradivari violins was markedly different from more modern instruments.
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It's like silencing the violins in an orchestra to see how important they are to the overall melody.
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"Start left," the first one read, a reminder to aim his baton toward the violins at the outset.
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The new regulations also required permits for products made from the wood, including guitars, violins, bagpipes and xylophones.
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The confections burst and then rewind from the brink of death while workhorse violins get the blood pumping.
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Or listening to Pavarotti forced not only to sing but to play the violins, harps and flutes, too.
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But instead of a light, buzzing sound from the violins, he drew something heavier, jabbing and overly present.
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But instead of a light, buzzing sound from the violins, he drew something heavier, jabbing and overly present.
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Just arm The Resistance with a bunch of violins, maybe that'll do the trick against Kylo Ren and company.
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This sonic universe of violins, brass, and horns is much more based on a certain kind of self-construction.
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The sixteenth notes in the violins unspool almost continuously, suggesting the transmission of the Lord's name through all lands.
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Its orchestral players, conducted by Emil de Cou, are better yet; the violins' mellowness of tone was an especial knockout.
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Turns out most violinists couldn't reliably tell the difference, but most also actually preferred the sound of the new violins.
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It's roots rock with a vibraphone and violins, with a story that seems plucked from mid-20th century speculative fiction.
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" In "Not the News" — a brisk, blipping immersion in alienation — he flaunts them, singing, "Cue the sliding violins in sympathy.
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And humor, as when vibrato-rich sostenuto in the violins is interrupted by a belching low note from the cello.
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The Metropolitan Opera's performance of Thomas Adès's "The Exterminating Angel" features highly unusual instruments, from tiny violins to slamming doors.
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The bass instruments drone on the tonic while the violins weave sixteenth notes around the other notes of the triad.
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It turned into a most rockin' bass-violin festival, neighbors singing and twirling with pretend and real bass violins (including a puppet holding a bass-violin puppet), around balloons with little cardboard handles taped to them to look like bass violins, to rousing bass-violin/accordion polka tunes accompanying bass-violin-inspired goat poems.
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It starts unexpectedly, with an arresting arrangement of orchestral percussion and plucked violins that dances dizzily around a slow kick drum.
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Here's my one note on recent horror trailers: you've gotta hold off on the creepy violins until creepy stuff starts happening.
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His workshop makes violins for beginners as well as his "Linea Macchi" line for professionals who cannot afford a master violin.
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That's certainly on the pricier side of violins, even for electric models, but none look like an instrument from the future.
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"We're going to start asking the customers to play the violins to make sure that we know it's theirs," he said.
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We had session players from the New York Philharmonic applying these Houston, Texas, hip-hop principles to their cellos, their violins.
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Today Bogdanovski's violins are priced at 60,000 euros ($67,000) apiece and are sold worldwide, while Kostadin is an internationally acclaimed violinist.
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As concertmaster, or leader of the first violins, Mr. Preucil is second in importance and power only to the orchestra's conductor.
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Then, the pulsation begins from piano in the basses, but the violins, for example, and the winds, they are playing forte.
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Neighborhood Joint When Marilyn Stroh hustled into David Segal Violins on West 68th Street in Manhattan, the tiny shop was hopping.
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Bandurrias, requintos, mandolins, flutes, matracas (cog rattles), violins, and accordions are all displayed and contextualized within their development in the region.
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On the prodigal Brisbane trio's second record, tempos race and bass lines pound; violins screech with the coarseness of car alarms.
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"Violins, I love you to death – but C is still not right," Braithwaite says as the young women rehearse the section again.
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Sonically, the rising Bedford producer hits it out of the park with the rat-tat-tat hi-hats and perfectly orchestrated violins.
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Scores of French horns, cellos, flutes and violins once filled the shelves of Stephen Melvin's beloved music store in Millburn, New Jersey.
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True to form, the German "down-to-earth" talk is also accompanied by the usual violins about staying competitive to push exports.
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The singer shared a sweet birthday message to her little girl alongside a photo of the two of them playing matching violins.
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Ms. Wang, a mighty substitute for the work's string instruments, demonstrated how the piece has always used violins as thinly veiled percussion.
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The finest Stradivari violins sell for millions of dollars, putting them far out of the reach of most artists, let alone students.
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This octet — for four violins, two oboes, one piano and timpani — makes for "a kind of demonic musical energy," Mr. Sachs said.
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During the winter of 2006, Dr. Tai visited Dr. Nagyvary in Texas and got hooked on the mystery of the famed violins.
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A native of Israel, Mr. Segal inherited his love of string instruments from his father, who also made violins for a living.
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If people want to keep a Stradivarius at home, theft is a big risk; robbery with violins is a serious crime, after all.
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Those include violins made with metal cans, a cello built from an oil container and a drumhead fashioned from discarded X-ray film.
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Since then, the instrument had been undergoing extensive repairs by a team of five luthiers at Reed Yeboah Fine Violins, near Columbus Circle.
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In today's 360 video, take in a performance of Thomas Adès's "The Exterminating Angel" which includes everything from tiny violins to slamming doors.
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His uplifting, beautiful panorama of 18 stained-glass-like works covering a wall of windows was an aesthetic argument for violins over violence.
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Laurie Anderson and Laura Ortman played bright, arcing lines on their violins as the electronic musician Jad Atoui made slow, mushrooming palls underneath.
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When the violins elaborate on this melody in eighth notes, the upper winds add agitated ornamentations, some in triplets, some in eighth notes.
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There was an unpleasant edge to the violins as Strauss's "Sunset" passage arrived; murkiness from the brasses; and an overall need of focus.
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It is a powerful moment musically, a release after the recurring, piercing violins that had previously reflected the anxiety and frustration of the Prisoner.
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Flipping through the voices on his Emu Proteus/217 orchestral synthesizer, he tried various instruments—violins, flutes, woodwinds, brass, voices, some more exotic things.
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Instead, it is an abstract look at key elements featured in the song and movie: drama, death, a bell boy, violins and flutes, hearts.
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"Run for Cover," the group's third single off the album, features a plinking piano and haunting violins, and is arguably the record's darkest track.
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Mr. Hoopes knew who he was, and as it happened, Mr. Zygmuntowicz had brought along one of his violins, the copy of the Ysaÿe.
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Classical musicians have been using violins for a very long time, but Stravinsky still did something else with that instrument than Wagner or Mozart.
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This composer is a specialty of this brilliant group, made up of young vocalists and instrumentalists on recorders, violins and various stringed bass instruments.
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Watching him is like "listening to Pavarotti forced not only to sing but to play the violins, harps and flutes, too," our columnist writes.
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Suddenly, thematic bits protrude ominously from various instruments, and the violins try to lead the journey into dark terrain with a slinky, elusive melody.
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When the upper voices reach " Herrscher ," they dissolve into the swirl of the violins, the first syllable elongated into a thirty-three-note melisma.
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"In Honor of NASA and the Planetary Soloists," for string quartet and oboe, featured violins and viola engaged in gently dissonant, softly sinking harmonies.
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"The French people are sitting on the Titanic, known as the euro, and they are listening to the violins," her strategist in London said.
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Cremona was once home to Antonio Stradivari, who in the 17th and 18th centuries produced some of the finest violins and cellos ever made.
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In the symphony's luscious Adagio, the first violins played the melody with sugared intensity, but the little trembling arpeggios that accompany them failed to speak.
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Her voice cracks as she sings "I hope I ain't calling you too late" over whining violins on "Higher," wobbling in a decidedly unpolished way.
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Click here to view original GIFWe've seen 3D-printed violins before, but they used an electric pickup to amplify the sound of the resonating strings.
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With violins winding around a light EDM drum beat, crowds often sing the song's main riffs in unison, even during the middle of Nakamura's match.
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He smashed violins and challenged audience members to play a piano cluttered with objects—ranging from eggshells to toy trucks—and bound in barbed wire.
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Why do the most admired violins in the history of music, made by Stradivarius and Guarneri, come from the middle of the Little Ice Age?
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Neither of them knew or even cared about the numerous studies proving that a Stradivarius does not, in fact, sound better than other, comparable violins.
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A MINUS Two Niles: To Sing a Melody: The Violins and Synths of Sudan (Ostinato) Not for everybody—in fact, not for me at first.
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The study looked at 11 real assets, from violins to real estate to wine, and found that every one did better during periods of easing.
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And while the on-scene reporter described the sound of violins as completely replacing gunfire, a burst of shooting was audible just after this assertion.
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The responses came as many women online played the world's smallest violins — or other instruments — for men lamenting the dangers they face in everyday life.
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Indeed, in the early going "Drift Multiply" was some of Mr. Perich's most sublimely settled music yet, as minor-third dyads bloomed throughout the violins.
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Then she generously asked the orchestra's leader, Pieter Schoeman, to join for one more encore: the animated second movement of Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins.
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If the first violins play a phrase in the fifth minute of a movement and an oboe plays a variation of the same phrase in the 12th minute, neither the violins nor the oboe may know they are part of a pattern, but the conductor has to know, because it is through the development of such patterns that the form of a piece, the story, expresses itself.
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I meet her in a classroom in Kabul, where she sits behind a grand piano surrounded by young women and girls clutching violins, clarinets, and cellos.
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Accordions and autoharps, flutes and saxophones, violins and clarinets, whistles and hand claps... The Hope Six Demolition Project is an explosive euphony of sound and movement.
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My musical preferences have always leaned towards rock, from folksy tunes with violins and banjos to darker tracks with heavy power chords and lots of screaming.
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I really love the saxophone as a melody instrument, but somehow a lot of guitars and violins wound up on this mix to fill that role.
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It sets out its path with the grand violins and quiet timpani of "Automatism," moving through "Closer to Closure"'s careful clarinets and quietly sinister melodies.
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To the beat of melancholic violins, models strutted down a starred and striped pink carpet in a former rail station dressed up in metallic pink panelling.
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The Department of Musical Instruments plans to create new recordings every year, in attempt to satiate decades of visitors's curiosity over intriguing lutes, violins, and pipes.
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He was the youngest son in a family of violin makers and was also known as Joseph Guarnerius del Gesù (and his violins as "del Gesùs").
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The fearless JACK players — Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violins; John Pickford Richards, viola; and Jay Campbell, cello — will continue to offer Carter à la carte.
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The combination of two violins, a viola and a cello was not yet in use as a standard ensemble when he wrote his dazzlingly rich output.
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Trilobites Violins, cameras, school desks, computer mouses, can openers — these are just a few items that demonstrate how routinely disadvantaged left-handers are in this world.
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In the Philharmonic's colorful performance, the sound of the violins, playing the high, wafting opening lines of the "Dawn" interlude, was bright, piercing and eerily beautiful.
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In their traditional Christmas Eve event, they play Mendelssohn's "The Hebrides" Overture, Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins in B minor and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2212.
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One of the area's more unusual shops is Bridgewood & Neitzart, which is entirely dedicated to valuing, selling, and repairing violins, some of which are worth £40,000.
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Cue the violins for Kimora's response to the judge's critique: "For so long, I've been hiding behind a breast plate and padding," she said in self defense.
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"The new technologies, like the 3D printing one, can facilitate the creation and production of new electric instruments, by example electric violins or electric guitars," writes Bernadac.
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So we had to look online to see what the range was for violins and cellos and played it on keyboard to put it on sheet music.
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It is a test for the musicians too, as they play percussion with their gloves on and see their breath freeze on their violins, cellos and guitars.
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When I was in my early 20s, I remember hearing violins on hip-hop beats and I always remember wanting to be a part of that somehow.
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The master percussionist is accompanied by two sons and five of his grandchildren playing rhythmic, fast-tempo folk music on an accordion, violins and a darbuka drum.
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Vuillaume bought and sold many of the best instruments made by the early Italian masters, and his copies of Stradivarius and Guarneri violins are highly sought after.
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As for the music, I'd have to check with the composer, Colin Stetson, but it seems to be scored for violins, percussion, a humpback whale, and bats.
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It's a behemoth of a piece, with electric guitars, saxophones, violins, cellos, flutes, synthesizers, and percussion instruments all seemingly jockeying for position, interlocked in inscrutable rhythmic structures.
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Eventually, the violins and piano begin to make a spiraling motion, and the voices swarm and dive, as if swimmers exploring the depths of a new lagoon.
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Listen to the way the violins swell on the initial rising notes of the melody and then, after nearly turning away, land almost reluctantly on the downbeat.
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This group — Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violins; John Pickford Richards, viola; and Jay Campbell, cello — often seems like it can do anything, and better than anyone.
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Tuesdays and Wednesdays Mr. Segal makes new violins at his home in Yonkers, while a manager runs the shop in Manhattan, which is open Monday through Friday.
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This composer, best known for experimenting with one-bit technology, unveils "Drift Multiply," for 50 violins and 50 one-bit speakers, under the direction of Doug Perkins.
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And they can do this with about a thousand different instruments—from violins to balafons—creating countless new sounds from those we already have, thanks to artificial intelligence.
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Asian parents out there: If you could just do me a favor, just a couple of you get your kids cameras instead of violins, we'll be all good.
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That sad, minor chord piano paired with violins that are practically weeping are enough to bring tears to my eyes but good lord, just listen to those lyrics.
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Click here to view original GIFWhen you see a 15-piece orchestra full of trumpets, violins, and cellos, you're probably expecting to hear a little Chopin, or Mozart.
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Mr. Cohen's sepulchral, deadpan intonation is set within angelic voices, Gypsy violins and often an organ that can be churchy or bluesy; each verse could be last words.
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This was in "For Patricia," a solo conceived and created at short notice for Patricia Delgado (former principal of Miami City Ballet) to Bartok music for two violins.
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A soft whisper of violins yields to sighing, drooping sounds throughout the strings, then forthright brass fanfares begin; they recur throughout the piece, a kind of periodic annunciation.
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A small forest of synthetic Christmas trees is illuminated by colored lights, while in a dark corner broken violins and disused drumsticks rest quietly, hinting at halted ambitions.
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Violins crafted by members of the Guarneri family and their Cremonese contemporaries, the Stradivari and the Amati, regularly fetch millions, because players like Ms Meyers value them so highly.
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This year, a non-profit organization gave them guitars and violins so they could play their traditional music at the fiestas believed to help heal and reorganize the world.
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"Pollux," though, is misty, swirling, altogether starry; delicate violins at one point are joined by a gentle motif in the flutes that becomes a gradual, dawnlike blossoming of winds.
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The end of that piece settles with a 20-part chord that [the violins and the electronics] play continuously; you can't hear what's a violin and what's 1-bit.
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In String TV, for example, she transduced sound directly into analog video, and then employed cymatic projections in the works Self-Oscillating Violin and Two Violins and a Theater.
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The lyrical language is met with literal accordions, violins and songs passed through generations, sung by parents and children and even mermaids (a phenomenon in which they all believe).
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"The Deuce" isn't the type of show to make uncomplicated villains out of anyone, but this final episode quiets the violins over the marginalization of the Times Square pimps.
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Dr. Tai hopes that decoding the secrets in the wood of Cremonese violins will help guide attempts to build replicas that can preserve the sounds of Stradivari and Guarneri.
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Our previous two records had violins and bagpipes and all this shit we couldn't possibly afford to cart around America, so I wanted to be more faithful to real life.
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Most violins have backs that are made with two pieces of wood glued together, but this one had a single-piece back, a feature that is coveted for aesthetic reasons.
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Sousa's band crisscrossed the United States, playing his marches and arrangements of pieces by composers that included Grieg, Dvorak and Wagner (meaning: no violins, no violas, no cellos, no basses).
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However, Mr. McCartney also has stadium-scale video that moves fast and cleverly; "Eleanor Rigby," with its string arrangement now replicable via electronic keyboard, got a backdrop of animated violins.
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Singing in English and German, he tackles themes such as queerness, homophobia, and anti-Brexit activism, while experimenting with sounds as diverse as violins, trains, and a dying car alarm.
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And the stalwart concertmaster Rainer Honeck — seconded on the first stand of violins by another concertmaster, Albena Danailova — carried through the expert, energetic leadership he had shown throughout the weekend.
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There was no orchestra this time, but the backing band dwelled on feverishly virtuosic solos — frenetic drums, shredding violins — as if to compensate for the lack of Acropolis-scale forces.
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It's not just the stabbing shower-scene violins that made Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho" score effective, but the way their churning strains revealed the anxieties of Janet Leigh's character early on.
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The materials show women working as scientists, artists, writers, activists, printers, architects, midwives, undertakers and makers and sellers of all things, from books and violins to patent medicines and condoms.
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Even in the first movement of "Concerto Barocco," you're not really "seeing" Bach's double violin concerto: The difference between the solo violins and the ballerinas following them is rhythmically large.
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And then you hear something that almost sounds like a bell, and almost sounds like a bass — and in fact it's the piano and the violins from the very beginning.
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The percolating instrument returns at the end of the concerto, having the final word after the cello cedes to deathly, teeming violins and the open-ended call of two trumpets.
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We have karaoke machines, acoustic guitars, keyboards, violins, food dehydrators, telescopes to see the beautiful stars, cotton candy machines, popcorn makers, and kits to measure the wattage used in one's home.
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Predictably, Merkel's fateful mistake — derided by a French philosopher as "violins and adding machines" — quickly created unbridgeable divisions among Germany's two center-right governing parties and their center-left coalition partners.
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Violins play inches from my ears, people whisper from behind me, and Marianna squirts tubes of deliciously sweet, sometimes sharp tastes into my mouth as she walks me around the room.
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As the sun illuminated the theater's wooden stage through the open roof, Obama was entertained for 10 minutes by a troupe of actors playing violins, mandolins, an accordion and penny whistles.
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On the opening "Lark" she murmurs the first verse over fluttering violins; then the beat drops and she wails the second verse as the drums thud and the strings screech queasily.
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Remarkably, that same syncopated D recurs in the first violins to open the principal theme of the first movement of the "Prague" Symphony (1786), now in the context of D major.
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Heavily amplified, almost cartoonish stomping, heavy on low brass, gives way to coolly rending lyricism, like a Baroque lament by John Dowland, thinly frosted by violins playing in their highest register.
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Listen to the moment in the Passacaglia when the winds (save for the bassoons) first fall away leaving the violins to lay down a noble but urgent melody (at 35:53).
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Surely you know that telltale moment, at the start of many great Golden Age musicals, when the curtain rustles, the lights glow warmer and the violins start churning out the schmaltz.
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Shrieking violins suggest some fast-approaching threat, while bow sticks striking their strings evoke fraying nerves or an inundation of tiny insects; and chaotic percussion simulate the protagonist's heart-racing panic.
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While the bassoonists, oboists and clarinetists navigated their jaunty, folk-like melodies, the trilling violins played in the background with a metallic sheen, adding a suggestion of bleakly beautiful winter light.
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CREMONA, Italy (Reuters) - Making violins is a passion in Cremona, the ancient Italian town that has been producing them since the 16th century, but turning passion into profits has not been easy.
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Anyway, the violins are extremely emotive: angst-inducing one minute— strings plucked with the fury of an army of amphetamine-amped woodpeckers—and elegantly swoon-some the next (take note at 1.44).
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With violins tucked under their chins, the 14-year-olds at Kawangware Primary School here had their bows at the ready as she pointed out notes for the song on the blackboard.
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Mr. Smith, 71, makes violins in his wood-stove-heated studio here in the southwest corner of New Hampshire, crafting his instruments of spruce and maple just as they have been for centuries.
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"Witch," with its sinister, meandering bass, is the most familiar of all, laced with howling violins that were absent in the past, but every bit insistent and sinister as anything on Beach Music.
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Since the song's release on Future's self-titled album in February, there's been no shortage of fans trying their hand at covering it, whether that be with violins, flutes, or just their voices.
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First the theme sounds in the winds, over rapidly pulsing lower strings; then it hovers in an ambience of luminous calm; then it takes on an impassioned, quasi-Romantic character in the violins.
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That's a feeling that these three young Danes (Frederik Oland and Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen on violins and Mr. Norgaard on viola) and their Norwegian cellist (Fredrik Schoyen Sjolin) are especially susceptible to creating.
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The piece involves very soft sounds played on an array of violins, from traditional to experimental, and used various standard mutes (brass pieces fitted on the bridge of the instrument to muffle sound).
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There's a lot of room to play in the verses of this song, and Polyphonic Spree's unique instrumentation — violins, cellos, a harp, more than 12 singers at a time — affords them ample opportunity.
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In this video by the Dover Quartet, the pleading cry of the cello — which is then passed around the violins and viola — takes on an urgency I didn't hear from the huge Philharmonic.
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To end, the intrepid players (Mason Yu and Erica Tursi, violins; Jinsun Hong, viola; Alex Cox, cello) tore through the contrapuntal tangles of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, a fearless rendering of this astonishing piece.
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The 13 musicians of the splendid Mariachi Los Camperos ensemble (with six violins, three trumpets, guitars, a vihuela and harp) perform from the back of the stage and sometimes join in the singing.
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He recorded three new compositions, issued along with the grittily beautiful "Four Violins," a private recording from 1964 and the only documentation of his work from that period outside of Mr. Young's loft.
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Both the power in a digital world of live performance — all those cellos and violins and violas united in song — and a desire these days for what can only be termed swaddling chic.
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Six vocalists will be joined by a crack ensemble of violins, cornetts and continuo in renditions of psalms and motets from the collection as well as other music written by Monteverdi's Baroque contemporaries.
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They're wildly different from one another—the former is a haunted, harpsichord-driven, half-minimal track; the latter is a country song, replete with slide violins and gorgeous harmonies from the brilliant Emily Yacina.
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Mr. Bell leads Beethoven's tight Symphony No. 8 from the concertmaster's chair; duets with Pamela Frank in Bach's D minor Concerto for Two Violins; and takes the solo bow in Tchaikovsky's familiar Violin Concerto.
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"There has been no President in the history of our Country who has been treated so badly as I have," he tweeted last week, and the violins have wailed only louder and weepier since.
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Those items range from scarves and sunglasses to laptops, smartphones and some odd "How did they forget THAT?" items, such as bowling balls, violins, gold teeth and urns and boxes filled with human remains.
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But with a faint tolling of orchestral bells and whimpers in the violins at the end of the second movement, attitude gave way to what seemed a touching glimpse of the suffering soul itself.
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Cremona is home to the workshops of some of the world's finest instrument makers, including Antonio Stradivari, who in the 17th and 18th centuries produced some of the finest violins and cellos ever made.
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The title track starts with the violins in a tentative, prickly dance, before the tenor saxophonist Jason Rigby alights, playing a repetitive melody — unresolved but deeply satisfying — over a bed of strings and horns.
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His live show, which started as him playing solo with an acoustic guitar before becoming a ruckus three-piece band, has evolved with his sound, and now features violins, keyboards, and sometimes a backing choir.
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"It's super-regal and a perfect mix of street- and sportswear," Rihanna told Vogue, adding that the soundtrack chosen to accompany the collection was a combination of violins and trap beats for that very reason.
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Cremona, in northern Italy, has more than 100 workshops making violins and other stringed instruments for musicians worldwide, following in the tradition of its great violin-makers which have included Antonio Stradivari and Nicolò Amati.
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For centuries, people have questioned what makes his violins so great, and many have investigated the source of its superiority — doing MRI scans, analyzing the wood density, and studying the chemical composition of the varnish.
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Though she later apologized for the statement and said it was taken out of context, it clearly articulated her priorities — a statement to remember whenever the Beltway establishment pulls out its violins over dead children.
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On the bill are two brief sinfonias, the first two of the four Orchestral Suites and the Concerto for Three Violins in D, performed by the soloists Krista Bennion Feeney, Mitsuru Tsubota and Naoko Tanaka.
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The accordionist played the tie-up notation, while 50 of her nonmusician friends, with an hour's instruction, performed another piece of weaving notation, the thread count, on violins that Ms. Bocanegra rented for the occasion.
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Despite having none of the training or supplies needed for instrument-building, he began what would become a 30-year practice of hand-making guitars, ukuleles, violins, and dulcimers from scrap wood and found objects.
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Pachelbel's Canon was originally written for three violins, she explained, but it can easily be arranged for a string quartet or the organ, keyboard and synthesizers, all creating a different sound depending on the occasion.
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In "Let There Be Light," Mr. Williams instead writes a swelling tone cluster of dissonant strings and wordless vocals, building an eerie tension that bursts and immediately recedes to a thick haze of high violins.
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Thom Yorke does his trademark echoed warble, singing about a "low flying panic attack," and those violins are so very Hitchcock-cray, but it really does sound like a band excited to return to the fray.
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"The upper class is not affected but the rest of us suffer," said Cristobal Casimiro, as he sold toy violins from a blanket laid out on the street in a middle class district of Mexico City.
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The group opened with a dark and somber account of Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture, followed by a crisp performance of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins featuring stellar soloists: Pamela Frank, Jinjoo Cho, Bella Hristova and Kyoko Takezawa.
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In the study, done in collaboration with the Chimei Museum in Taiwan, Dr. Tai and his colleagues used five analytical techniques to assess wood shavings from two Stradivari violins, two Stradivari cellos and one Guarneri violin.
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After studying the craft in Italy, the younger Mr. Segal came to New York and worked for Rembert R. Wurlitzer, a renowned authority on violins and other string instruments, before starting his own business in 1975.
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Utilizing everything from decaying electronics to violins and harmonica, Gridfailure manages to fuse the familiar and the foreign in a way that is more likely to cause listeners to clench their jaw than to nod their heads.
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Moreover, though only the New York audience was asked, its members preferred the music of the new violins to that of the old ones—even though, like the players, they could not actually tell which was which.
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At least I assume that is why we lingered on this shot with only a pounding symphony of violins for company: Jaime rides out of King's Landing just as it starts snowing there for the first time.
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This isn't the first time varnish has been cited as a factor in the sound of a violin—specifically, the violins built by Antonio Stradivari in the late 17th/early 18th century, renowned for their superior sound.
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Game of Thrones and its music have gotten plenty of covers, from violins and vocals to instrumentals from around the world, and at least one kooky Kanye mashup... but we haven't seen as much dancing – until now.
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You've always taken the stance that you actually need to understand the system, you need to work within it, as you put it in 20003, that the angels are not going to come down with their violins.
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That's how the 49-year-old society opened with the Duo in G for two violins by Giovanni Battista Viotti, a work so underwhelming that it can only have inspired budding composers by setting the bar low.
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At noon, the cellist Elad Kabilio and his chamber ensemble MusicTalks will perform — singing along is encouraged — and host a "musical instrument petting zoo," at which children can handle and try out violins, drums, clarinets and more.
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Conrad's recorded discography includes Four Violins (recorded in 1964 and released in 1996), Outside the Dream Syndicate (1973) a collaboration with the Krautrock band Faust, and Slapping Pythagoras (1995) the record that marked his grand return to music.
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It was set to a score of increasingly urgent violins and against the backdrop of vignettes from a film collaboration with the director David O. Russell that forced viewers' eyes to jump spasmodically between the catwalk and screen.
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She said she enjoyed the feeling of forming a bass section with the cellist at the back of the group, and experiencing what she called the "concertante back-and-forth" between the two violins who face each other.
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A letter from Ms Correia's attorney tells her version of events: Ms Correia explained it was necessary to keep the instrument with her and asked what her options would be (airlines generally permit musicians to carry violins on board).
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He was unafraid to stop the orchestra to reshape the smallest phrases, asking the violins to repeat one seemingly simple seven-note passage 10 times in a row until a few subtle tweaks gave it new depth and color.
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Why settle for a realistic simulated experience of a live orchestra when you can be listening from the middle of the strings section instead, violins circling around your head, or from the perspective of the performer up on stage?
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Video courtesy of Gordon Yu Yu also serves as the CEO of Etouch Innovation Company, a member of the industry association, which produces products like egg cartons made with recycled fibers, and violins fashioned with leftover glass from smartphones.
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With a TV on mute providing cues, he and his 8-Bit Big Band were recording the music from Mario Kart 64, blown way out with 36 instruments, including saxophones, trumpets, trombones, 133 violins, three cellos and a harp.
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Robert initially felt guilty for not providing a steady income while he got Heartwood Violins off the ground, and he still struggles with society's patriarchal expectations, but he also enjoys the benefits of starting his new company from home.
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And, in what is becoming a Beatle tradition, George Harrison unveils his latest excursion into curry and karma, to the saucy accompaniment of three tambouras, a dilruba, a tabla, a sitar, a table harp, three cellos and eight violins.
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Dr. Tai's team also found a property in the Stradivari violin samples but not the cellos: When they heated the wood shavings of the violins, they found an extra peak in oxidation, which implies a detachment between wood fibers.
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Moments like the briefest impression of violins tuning in the prologue, and the quiver of flute in the opera proper at the mention of leaves rustling, don't ever stop the dialogue in its tracks; indeed, they propel it forward.
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These were recently described as sounds of "violins and adding machines" by the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, who became an "immortal" when he was voted in on January 28, 2016, as the latest member of the 380-year-old French Academy.
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It's lighthearted and buoyant, the way all the performers form a small arc as they walk downstage in time with Bach's music, sometimes with stately strides, then speeding up with perky steps as the violins and trumpets describe a little trill.
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The Mendelssohn octet was high on Sun's list of musical goals, and he contacted the members of the group he was assigned, encouraging them to choose the piece, which requires eight skilled string players—four violins, two violas, and two cellos.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Any fan of the HBO fantasy television series "Game of Thrones" will tell you that the show enthralls right from its opening title sequence accompanied by a foreboding instrumental piece played using drums and violins.
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The music deftly captures the interaction of the architecture and its environment, with puffy woodwind chords evoking cloud-chased skies, and delicate arpeggios, traded back and forth between the violins and the harp, mimicking light bouncing off a faceted surface.
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He has made violins for Joshua Bell, Maxim Vengerov and Leila Josefowicz, among others, and a cello for Yo-Yo Ma. Mr. Hoopes's Zyg is a copy of an instrument by another celebrated maker from the 18th century, Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri.
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Bret Stephens In the department of small violins, consider the moral embarrassment, after Charlottesville, Va., of right-of-center Jews who voted for Donald Trump in the election and remained — at least until last week — broadly supportive of his presidency.
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Customers might spend anywhere from $2 for an E string (such small items are stored in the labeled drawers of an old wooden card catalog) to millions of dollars for rare, centuries-old violins, which are kept in a safe.
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Finnegan Shanahan, a professional violinist and the assistant to the shop manager, went back and forth from Mr. Shrout to the workshop, where violins are tucked in rug-cushioned cubbies, cellos lean against the walls and violas hang from the ceiling.
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Isabelle Faust, whose Bach recordings on Harmonia Mundi are self-recommending, is the soloist in two violin concertos and the Concerto for Two Violins, virtuoso works surrounded here by new transcriptions of Bach's keyboard works, written by the conductor, Bernard Labadie.
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ZACHARY WOOLFE AT 1 MINUTE Nothing against the string section of the Berlin Philharmonic, but the magic of this "Pavane" by Fauré is cooked up entirely by the wind section in the first 90 seconds before the violins get their say.
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This isn't an orchestra that does spectacular soft atmosphere, but moments like the stillness of the second movement, "Lemminkäinen in Tuonela," when the barest shiver of violins is frosted by the barest shiver of rat-a-tat drum, were finely controlled.
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Just beyond those cases are lutes, lyres, gongs, drums, horns, harps, whistles, Italian violins, Indonesian gamelans, lamellaphones from sub-Saharan Africa, a golden harpsichord seemingly supported by mythical creatures and keyboard instruments small enough to fit in your carry-on luggage.
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Instead, for more than two hours, China's main legislative chamber reverberated on Saturday with the sounds of violins, electric bass, French horns and drums for a rare event: a joint concert by a group of the country's leading classical and popular musicians.
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Seemingly incapable of resting on idle hands, though, he's [released] an album through Polyvinyl Records under the name Quiet Slang, Everything Matters But No One Is Listening, featuring gentle lullaby versions of Beach Slang's rock ragers, reframed with orchestral violins and pianos.
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In comparison with other violins, Stradivari and Guarneri instruments are known for possessing rich, dark bass tones and a quality known as brilliance, or the ability to project a clean, high-frequency sound that "tickles your ear from far away," Dr. Nagyvary said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads From an Ancient Egyptian harp and Ghanaian drum to Stradivari violins, a theremin, and even a vuvuzela, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's newly reopened musical instrument galleries run the gamut of the institution's global historical collections.
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Back in 2006, a retired professor of biochemistry, Joseph Nagyvary, claimed it was the chemicals used to treat the wood in Stradivarius violins that made them so special: a cocktail of honey, egg whites, and gum arabic, along with salts of copper, iron, and chromium.
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Seemingly incapable of resting on idle hands, though, he's about to release an album through Polyvinyl Records under the name Quiet Slang, Everything Matters But No One Is Listening, featuring gentle lullaby versions of Beach Slang's rock ragers, reframed with orchestral violins and pianos.
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In April, Farhoud, who is seventy-six, packed a U-Haul with a grand piano, two hundred violins, ten cellos, and some furniture and paintings, and moved across the country, to a town called Mountain Center, an hour from Luke Goebel's place in the desert.
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But it was formally presented to its first recipient, Nathan Meltzer, an 18-year-old who studies with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin at the Juilliard School, in a ceremony on Tuesday morning at the Rare Violins offices on West 57th Street, near Carnegie Hall.
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FRASCONI The classic Ne(x)tworks instrumentation I always thought of as a string quartet dreaming of itself, where the cello dreamed it was a trombone, the viola dreamed it was a harp, one of the violins was glass, and the other was Joan's voice.
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Matthew Ostrowski and Nina Nichols's "Western Electric," activated by playing an instrument or singing in a telephone booth, and Ross Harmon and Frank Pahl's "Bowers Nest," which has chime columns and "nail violins" on its wooden walls, are joining the "Syphonium" for the previews.
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Levi—who is also known for her work as Micachu of the art-pop Micachu and the Shapes—uses time-twisted violins to craft an unnerving score that would've made Kubrick jealous while retaining human elements that pull us back to earth as listeners.
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I dropped my phone back into my bag and wandered around the balcony filled with Victorian pianos, tiny violins, and something that I thought was a traditional Jewish grogger (a noisemaker used while celebrating the holiday Purim) but turned out to be an Italian percussion instrument.
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The conductor and Baroque-music specialist William Christie suggested that the emphasis on what he called "rather straight, white voices" in the 1970s and '80s was less of a function of women being told to sound like boys than of singers being told to sound like violins.
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Sergei Parkhomenko, a journalist, wrote on Facebook that at $6 million each, the $2 billion reported to have been stashed offshore was enough to buy more than 300 of the rare violins, cellos and other stringed instruments made in the 17th and 18th centuries by Antonio Stradivari.
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I had my boy Coto on the bass, played on a couple joints, brought in some violins, brought in a drummer, but the rest of that shit is pretty much me on the drums, or on the keys or on the guitars as well, you know.
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The instrumental accompaniment calls not only for Italian violins but also for the vigüela de arco , a bowed instrument with a medieval Iberian lineage, while the opera's fetching sequence of arias and choruses mixes Italian da-capo arias with Spanish-style songs that incorporate haunting miniature refrains.
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When Mr. Taylor's "Spindrift" — set to Schoenberg's "String Quartet Concerto (after Handel)" — was revived on Wednesday, after six years, the solo violins (Krista Bennion Feeney and Anca Nicolau) sounded scratchy; and throughout the piece it was hard to feel any firm bond between dancers and musicians.
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The deadly encounter between Marion Crane and the cross-dressing Norman Bates was shot over seven days in 1959, and every element is instantly recognizable: the shadowy figure tearing aside the shower curtain, the stream of blood and water circling the drain, Bernard Herrmann's shrieking violins.
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Celebrating Friday's release of Mr. Westberg's most recent album, "After Vacation," the first multitrack recording of his solo work, the evening begins with the searing violins of Laura Ortman followed by the improvisational hi- and lo-jinks of Algis Kizys on bass and Lynn Wright on guitar.
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"Hannibal — A Bloody Romp Through Murder and Romance" by Amber Thomas Picture it — a gritty, violent horror opera to the tune of lilting violins, wherein men can metamorphosize into anything from the feed for a mushroom farm, to the dining fare for an unknowing high society.
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With the singers performing on platforms within the orchestra (except for King Arkel, the cavernous, noble Peter Rose, who sits on a throne near the violins), the box encases the characters' fears, desires and emotions, all while blurring the line between their inner and outer worlds.
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Vampire Weekend (2008) and Contra (2010) are light, tuneful, summery romps, condensing trebly guitar, violins and harpsichords, bubbly, pitched percussion, and ska beats into clean, spare, distinctive, skewed guitar-pop that, despite comparisons to African pop and Paul Simon's solo music, didn't sound much like anyone.
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The concerto (1785), in D minor, opens with breathtaking urgency and suspense, as the upper strings push forward a quiet syncopated figure, the first violins sounding an insistent D. The air of mystery thus created carries through much of the work before dissipating completely in a jocular ending.
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After nearly half an hour, a chattering and dryly abrasive passage of electronic polyphony overtook the violins, eventually vibrating throughout the cavernous room: Fans of Mr. Perich's more intense sonic explorations might have felt like raising devil-horn hands at this decidedly metal moment — with apologies to the cathedral.
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And while Mr. Hadelich's lithe, even wiry tone didn't impose itself too strongly, it did fit in with one worrisome aspect of the sound Mr. van Zweden seems to be cultivating: an intensity in the violins (good!) that at this point can tip over into steely edge (bad!).
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Its departure point was the lovely sound of works like the Dvorak and Tchaikovsky serenades, which Ms. Meyer quickly complicated, by dividing and redividing lines, and roughed up with astringent effects, like a creaking and croaking among the double basses midway through, which was then offset by squealing violins.
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At chapel, we were sometimes shown religious agitprop videos; in the worst of these, a handsome dark-haired man bid his young son farewell in a futuristic white chamber and then, as violins swelled in the background, walked down an endless hall to be martyred for his Christian faith.
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Past studies by Claudia Fritz of the University of Paris VI, and Joseph Curtin, a violin-maker in Michigan, have shown that professional players wearing goggles to stop them seeing their instruments clearly cannot tell between Cremonese and well-made modern violins—and generally prefer the sound of the latter.
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The violins and horns swell to heighten the dramatic effect, but the sound of it doesn't stay in your head; it's just a din that requires the artist to belt—which Close, Xavier, and Johanson do handily, though you have to keep reminding yourself what they're singing about with such urgency.
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When I listen to the score now, to the booming orchestral percussion and whinnying violins that fill every corner of "Phantom Thread III" or the arpeggiated strings and piano that cascade like tulle on "Endless Superstition," I imagine Alma's character learning to understand herself, and each song accompanying her personal growth.
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A marvelous example of inverted imagery in Bach's church cantatas is the fourth movement of "Whoever lets only the dear God rule" (BWV 93), where a soprano-alto duet gives voice to a hymn text by means of instrument-like countermelodies, while the violins and viola nonverbally intone the actual hymn tune.
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This couple bucked stereotypes to start a violin business from home This couple bucked stereotypes to start a violin business from home Despite having four young children, in August of 2016, Robert Wood quit his job at a renowned violin shop in order to make violins from a converted shed in his backyard.
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The 10-minute (!) shot — scored by a cacophony of screeching violins, then silence, then Lynch's signature static — starts miles away from the explosion, zooming closer and closer to ultimately examine its minute, terrifying particles and the birthing of both evil (Killer BOB and the woodsmen) and innocence (the golden essence of Laura Palmer).
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The Coppa allows teams from smaller markets (and smaller budgets) like Sassari and Cremona (more famous for Stradivarius violins than hoops) to pull off March Madness-like upsets against more glamorous squads like Milan, which is sponsored by Giorgio Armani and takes full advantage of the lack of a league salary cap.
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Riding an echoey, muscular, vaguely Latin trap-groove, "Airplane Pt. 2" plays similar tricks; as the camp violins, simulated steel drums, and rattly percussion effects wriggle, the boys pepper their Korean raps with English slogans ("I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know"), and the chorus includes Spanish too ("El mariachi").
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It was a charanga-style band, characterized by the sound of the flute and two violins, and the band's appearance in New York drew the attention of the manager of the Palladium ballroom, who subsequently booked it for a sold-out Thanksgiving dance — a central event to the growing popularity of the style in New York.
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Violins screech on "She Knows" as if laid down by Vicky Aspinall, while baroque horns on "Make Time 4 Love" cast Louis as a dour, sassy Jens Lekman, giving his theatrical vocal (one of the best on the record, going from romantic to downcast to straight-up petulant over the song's runtime) an adequately dramatic padding.
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I feel like Sufi and a Killer, I said too much shit, man, you know, and I feel like this record, my voice is more of an instrument, it's not the main [force] in the record, and my "voice" has become the guitar and the drums and the violins and all that other shit, you know.
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Yes, there will be stars, including the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the baritone Thomas Hampson and the violinist Midori, who will perform an excerpt from "Serenade," which she memorably played at Tanglewood in 1986 under Bernstein's baton — in a performance that became famous when she had to borrow violins from the orchestra twice because she broke strings.
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To richen the instrumental textures, the second violins have been tuned barely a semitone lower than the other performers, and the traditional orchestra shares space with musicians playing electronic instruments and a library of prerecorded samples — some recordings of instruments, some purely electronic sounds, and some field recordings, like the bird song that opens the opera.
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Some of the vocal writing borders on the outlandish; the part for Leticia, the opera singer, often goes up to high E and F. The orchestra calls for an array of bells, a vast battery of percussion, an ondes martenot (the early electronic instrument beloved of Messiaen), a solo guitar, and eight miniature violins (at one-thirty-second size).
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