The Red Violin

A Take on The Red Violin The Red Violin, a movie written by Don McKellar and François Girard, and directed by François Girard, was released on September 10, 1998. It follows a special, and, in a sense, cursed, fictional violin through its long and tragic life, culminating a modern era auction where it is being sold. Everything begins with the violin makers, Nicolò Bussotti, and his pregnant wife, Anna Rudolfi. While Bussotti worked in his shop, Rudolfi met with one of their servants, Cesca, and

The movie The Red Violin is a drama written and directed by filmmaker Francois Girard, which follows the history of a mysterious and intriguing musical instrument over the span of 300 years. Francois Girard got the idea for the movie from events involving the legendary red Mendelssohn, a 1720 Antonio Stradivari violin which was purchased in 1990 by the grandfather of celebrated musician and heiress, Elizabeth Pitcairn (Fricke, 2010). The story is artfully and elegantly put together, and although

to modern day, the red violin played a significant role in people lives. It produces this sweet and calm music that allow people to be so ambitious. It has this special quality in it that people wanted to buy at an auction. In the film, I learned that the red violin was a treasure to people from different periods. The red violin was being pass on to person to person throughout the film. During the Renaissance, the fortune teller was using cards to predict the future of the violin to Francesca. In addition

Fire is both a ghost and a blood-red violin. They called him a star. He was, to them, made of steel. He was invincible, no matter what he went through. He played a blood-red violin and they loved him. They thought they knew him, but they knew nothing at all. Humans are not maps we can study or books we can read. They did not know that he lived in between a thousand shades of gray, that he was a transparent ghost brutally tossed by the winds of time, that underneath his skin was smoke and ashes

it is not technically a twelve-tone composition, the third movement of Bela Bartok’s String Quartet No. 4 contains many elements of unconventional harmony and melody. Beginning the movement, Bartok builds a sustained Forte code 8-23 set (marked in red) by layering each voice consecutively, concluding in the sixth measure. The concluding measure presents a chord resembling an incomplete circle of fifths. Marked espressivo, the cello plays the exposition’s first theme (marked in blue): a chromatic

symbol for life. To establish the concert as its own concept, Updike states “Then violins vaunting Vivaldi’s strident strengths, then Brahms, seemed to suck with their passionate sweetness, bit by bit, the vigor from the red, the blazing blue.” The violins are the heartbeat of the concert, so the concert was given life and made an individual. Updike makes this clear by giving the description of the violins sucking the red and blue which are the colors of blood. Unoxygenated blood is blue,

sixteenth notes in the red box acts as a junction into having the two soloists switch roles and gives the intro to the second theme a lot of suspended and anticipated notes in the sequence. Moreover, the blue box in figure 7.1 represents the exact same lyrical line in figure 5.2 except this time the roles are now switched; the first violin solo showcase the moving sixteenth notes first, followed by a group of eighth notes with the second violin solo, then the second violin solo repeats the sixteenth

It's broken! My brand new violin has no strings. We just got a new violin for orchestra and it didn't sound right so my mom tried to tune it, but when she tried to tune it the string snapped off. When the strings snapped they flew like a bird! It was like losing your best friend to something horrific! I was terrified to go to orchestra. Were people gonna think I was weird? And yes they did. “Mom how am I supposed to go to orchestra now?!”I exclaimed. “I'll order strings tomorrow just go

famous Italian baroque composer, known by most Suzuki violin students who study his concertos or by audiences everywhere who have heard and love his composition of the Four Seasons.  Having grown up as students of the Suzuki Violin Method, we recognize this composer and have experience performing his pieces.  In addition to his many concertos written for solo violin, Vivaldi composed many concertos intended to be performed by two solo violins, accompanied by a small orchestra.  Because we are both

As the ground started to shake and church bells began to ring all over the city of Venice, a sickly red headed baby boy was born to Camilla and Giovanni Vivaldi. Antonio Vivaldi was delivered at home by a mid-wife on March 4, 1678, in the middle of an earthquake. Little Antonio struggled to breathe and was not expected to live. Asking God to spare her son, Camilla vowed that Antonio would grow up to be a priest. Had Vivaldi died that day, the world would have missed out on one of the life’s greatest