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  • The Brahms, paced to move not to reflect, could have used more warmth, particularly in the violin's upper strings.

    Music review: Violinist Stefan Jackiw at the Jewish Community Center Post 2010

  • And this following shortly after her supple lead-off rendition of the Fats Waller-Charles R. Grean-Maxine Manners "Jitterbug Waltz," during which she indisputably illustrated what Weinstein means by the violin's being the closest approximation to the human voice.

    David Finkle: First Nighter: Genius Jazz Violinist Aaron Weinstein Meets Brilliant Jazz Singer Christine Ebersole in Dual Birdland Triumph David Finkle 2011

  • When I grab my laptop bag, the violin's envelope falls out.

    Return to Sender Mike Lynch 2011

  • That's partly a reflection of supply: Between the 16th and 18th centuries, master luthiers in Italy like Antonio Stradivari and Giovanni Guadagnini perfected the violin's hourglass construction and sold hundreds of instruments to Europe's courtly orchestras.

    Violins on the Rise in New York City 2010

  • "Fantasy — Remembering Roger" (as in Sessions) is manifold where the others are sequential, keeping all its elements and all the violin's registers seemingly active at once — a Joachim cadenza gone haywire.

    Magna Carter (7): Either/Or Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • "Fantasy — Remembering Roger" (as in Sessions) is manifold where the others are sequential, keeping all its elements and all the violin's registers seemingly active at once — a Joachim cadenza gone haywire.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Yet the overall harmonies flow so expressively because the little deviations — the viola's minor ninths giving way to the first violin's major ninths, the cello's extroverted cadenza versus the first violin's equally dazzling, but inward one — the little differences seem to be always on the verge of coming together.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Yet the overall harmonies flow so expressively because the little deviations — the viola's minor ninths giving way to the first violin's major ninths, the cello's extroverted cadenza versus the first violin's equally dazzling, but inward one — the little differences seem to be always on the verge of coming together.

    Magna Carter (6): This Is Your Life Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Taste the violin's strings on your tongue the way the frog feels a cricket.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: The Frogness of Music 2009

  • Here, the focus is on the violin's role in various strands of black popular music, from the early jump bands into rhythm and blues and eventually even rock 'n' roll.

    Jazz Violin? Three Releases Full of Surprises 2009

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