steve april vocal, guitar (Melody, Lyrics)
mark stein violin, keys, french horn
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viewed a show about midori, the violin player, based the story around that...
UNPRETENTIOUS PRODIGY PUZZLED BY ALL THE FUSS
By TIM PAGE
Published: July 29, 1986
Two days after her triumphant appearance at Tanglewood, the 14-year-old Japanese violinist Midori returned to her home in New York. Everything had changed. Now there were interviews to give, phone calls to return, photographers and news cameramen flocking outside the door, waiting for a glimpse of the young prodigy.
On Saturday night, Midori played Leonard Bernstein's Serenade for Violin and String Orchestra at Tanglewood, under the composer's direction, in a performance that John Rockwell of The New York Times called ''technically near-perfect.'' In the fifth movement, Midori broke a string. Unfazed, she borrowed the concertmaster's violin and continued playing. Another string broke, she borrowed the acting associate concertmaster's violin and kept on. ''When it was over, audience, orchestra and conductor-composer joined in giving her a cheering, stomping, whistling ovation,'' Mr. Rockwell observed...
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The Violin Song
she plays violin, violin,
plays it so fair, plays it so well,
voices of angels, no my friend,
a 12 year old playin' violin...
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