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Violin in sentence

114 examples of Violin in a sentence

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, "Would you like to play the violin or the piano?"
The violin is very beautiful.
After Mr. Heifetz's concert, a lady came over and complimented him: "Oh, Mr. Heifetz, your violin sounded so great tonight!"
It's what makes a child play a violin at home, while his father works in his carpentry.
And the source was a man, an African-American man, charming, rugged, homeless, playing a violin that only had two strings.
He was speaking in a very jovial and gregarious way about Yo-Yo Ma and Hillary Clinton and how the Dodgers were never going to make the World Series, all because of the treacherous first violin passage work in the last movement of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.
And we got talking about music, and I got an email from Steve a few days later saying that Nathaniel was interested in a violin lesson with me.
And I was afraid, not for myself, but I was afraid that I was going to lose him, that he was going to sink into one of his states, and that I would ruin his relationship with the violin if I started talking about scales and arpeggios and other exciting forms of didactic violin pedagogy.
So El Sistema in Venezuela uses a violin as a technology of learning.
The hurdy-gurdy is the only musical instrument that uses a crank to turn a wheel to rub strings, like the bow of a violin, to produce music.
Not a radical departure, but rather a refinement of what Glass does best with lovely violin contributions by Yo Yo Ma.
Ed Harris and others, you cannot comprehend the greatness of Beethoven in your wildest dreams and certainly not after a couple of lessons in conducting and violin playing.
Add slo-mo drifting and violin music all wistful and melancholy, add James Fox who seems to hope he might be seen as daring (like in PERFORMANCE) and the result is amphetamine fantasy alphabet soup in widescreen.
First the film is a homage to Jascha Heifetz, considered to be the best violin virtuoso of the past century.
A bright youngster interested in "serious" music (admittedly a vanishing breed--who'll play the fiddle when no one can play the violin??"--could find this an interesting fiction about street kids and great musical stars.
Part of the film is take up with shots of Anne's face while she breaths deeply, and violin music plays in the background.
It's like playing the violin when applying for a viola class.
The most annoying part of the movie was the violin player.
(Brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school).
I love the allusions to Mozart all throughout from the opening with "Einstein" playing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" on the violin to him humming Eine Kleine Nachtmusik during the IQ testing of the Ed Walters.
The violin is awesome.
That's an old John Watson speaking in a narrative voice-over, and moments later at the Brompton School common we're going to see young Watson, played by Alan Cox at 15, meet Sherlock Holmes, played by Nicholas Rowe at 19. Watson has had his trunk delivered and Holmes is scratching away horribly at a violin.
I liked how the movie wove together the tarot readings and the different owners of the red violin and I also liked how it was all again brought together at the auction.
The part where the old man plays his bow/ violin on the roof of the boat, however, belongs in a tourism video promoting the wonders of South-Korea, not a Kim Ki-Duk film.
As the movie progressed, I began to suspect the fortune teller was speaking not of the life of the expectant woman sitting before her, but of the violin.
When you learn how the violin acquired its captivating shade of red you will most likely be stunned at first, but then touched by the thought behind it and the bittersweetness of the moment.
I am certain the violin masters' heart was breaking as he applied the colour.
Bill Conti's heroic theme is virtually note-for-note from a Tchaikovsky violin concerto, but at least he was allowed to "try" a theme.
The red violin is the perfect instrument, created by 'Nicolo Bussonti' a passionate perfectionist for his fatally ill wife.
The concept of the film which follows the violin through the years from its birth to the present day & how it has touched the people in its presence is unique & done in such a way that reaches out to you to feel its impact.
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