The sound of the Mahavishnu Orchestra was influenced by both psychedelic rock and classical Indian soundsFrench jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty performed on both acoustic violin and on amplified, electronic effect-modified electric violinsThe band's first lineup split after two studio and one live albums, but McLaughlin formed another group under same name which included Jean-Luc Ponty, a jazz violinist, who also made a number of important fusion recordings under his own name as well as with Frank Zappa, drummer Narada Michael Walden, keyboardist Gayle Moran, and bassist Ralph Armstrong.

He particularly wanted a violinist as an integral contributor to its overall sound.

At the age of 15 Morello met the violinist Jascha Heifetz and decided that he would never be able to equal Heifetz's " sound ", so switched to drumming, first studying with a show drummer named Joe Sefcik and then George Lawrence Stone, author of the noted drum textbook Stick Control for the Snare Drummer.

In 1997 the violin became a part of their sound again with the addition of violinist Terry Brock.

Though most of these bands maintain a progressive attitude as to the nature of their sound ( Remains of the Day actually includes a violinist among its members ), there is a staunch refusal to separate themselves categorically from their hardcore punk provenances.

Hugh Marsh ( born June 5, 1955 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ) is a violinist from Toronto, known for his electric violin sound.

However it was played by the famous violinist Joseph Joachim who states in a letter of 1891 to the then owner of the Messiah, Robert Crawford, that he was struck by the combined sweetness and grandeur of the sound.

The violinist Giuseppe Tartini was the first to describe it, dubbing it il Terzo Suono ( Italian for " the third sound ").

String quartets by composers George Crumb and Daniel James Wolf as well as works by violinist and composer Mari Kimura require string instrument players to bow with sufficient pressure that the strings vibrate causing the sound waves to modulate and demodulate by the instruments resonating horn with frequencies corresponding to subharmonics.

Their performances with violinist Ida Pearle, cellist Elaine Ahn, and clarinetist Sue Havens gave them a distinct and complex “ chamber pop ” sound.

Works by Dohnanyi, Hubay, Mr. D'Albert himself and Paganini, indicated that the violinist had some virtuoso fireworks up his sleeve as well as a reserved attitude toward a lyric phrase.

Antonio began his musical studies in his native town of Legnago ; he was first taught at home by his older brother Francesco Salieri ( a former student of the violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini ), and he received further lessons from the organist of the Legnago Cathedral, Giuseppe Simoni, a pupil of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini.

Cha-cha-cha was created by the Cuban violinist Enrique Jorrín, a member of the Orquesta América.

* Louis Spohr ( 1784-1859 ), the 19th-century composer and violinist, who is commemorated by a museum in the city.

Other personalities who were attracted by his talks were American poets Harriet Monroe and Ella Wheeler Wilcox ; Dr. Lewis G. Janes, president of Brooklyn Ethical Association ; Sara C. Bull, wife of Ole Bull, the Norwegian violinist ; Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress and Madame Emma Calvé, the French opera singer.

In 1977 Bruford and Wetton were reunited in U. K., augmented by guitarist Allan Holdsworth and keyboardist / violinist Eddie Jobson.

On December 8, 1956, two examples on the same broadcast were " Nuttin ' for Christmas ," which became a vehicle for Rocky Rockwell dressed in a child's outfit, and Elvis Presley's " Don't Be Cruel ," which was sung by violinist Bob Lido, wearing fake Presley-style sideburns.

He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, Marie-Magdeleine, a violinist who supplemented the family's meager income by playing summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon.

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

In recent years, a number of his compositions ( notably championed by the violinist, Paul Zukofsky ) have been recorded and made available on CD, including three of his string quartets, the three symphonies, a rhapsody for orchestra, and four solo piano works: his Sonata, Dance Suite, Piece in Seven Movements ( 1935 – 37 ) and Seven Pieces ( 1947 ).

* Kronos Quartet, a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973

Winthrop Sargeant, a violinist with the Symphony Society and later a writer for The New Yorker, recalled the merger as " a sort of surgical operation in which twenty musicians were removed from the Philharmonic and their places taken by a small surviving band of twenty legionnaires from the New York Symphony.

Williams started a music publishing business with violinist / bandleader Armand J. Piron in 1915, which by the 1920s was the leading African-American owned music publisher in the country.

A large faculty teaches student attendees, and master classes are offered by the likes of Eroica Trio, St. Petersburg String Quartet, violinist Alexander Gilman, violist Lech Antonio Uszynski, and soprano Dominika Zamara.

* The Wild String Quartet ( January 17, 1971 ) – Mahna Mahna ( performed by Jim Henson ) fills in for a violinist named Beagleman but ends up playing the drums instead much to the dismay of Twill ( performed by Jerry Nelson ), Harrison ( performed by Richard Hunt ), and Grump ( performed by Frank Oz ).

Her dreams of becoming a concert violinist were cut short when she injured her wrist, but by 1922 she was employed as a violinist in a pit band accompanying silent films at a cinema in Berlin – her first job, from which she was fired after only four weeks.

In 1817 he appeared as a violinist in public, and in this year composed a ballad, first called " Young Fanny " and afterwards, when sung in Paul Pry by Madame Vestris, " The Lovers ' Mistake ".

Lady Anne was fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Arabic, a skilled violinist and a gifted artist who studied drawing with John Ruskin.

Practically speaking, if a violist and violinist are playing together, the violist must begin moving the bow a fraction of a second sooner than the violinist.

This was sometimes the principal violinist, who could use his bow as a baton, or a lutenist who would move the neck of his instrument in time with the beat.

Another transitional type of bow may be called the Cramer bow, after the violinist Wilhelm Cramer ( 1746 – 99 ) who lived the early part of his life in Mannheim ( Germany ) and, after 1772, in London.

* Wilhelm Cramer ( 1746 – 1799 ), German-British violinist, best known for the " Cramer bow "

Emil Telmányi ( 22 June 1892 – 13 June 1988 ) was a Hungarian violinist who invented the Bach bow, designed to play and sustain three or four notes on a violin for Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin.

He was already renowned in London before moving across the Atlantic, accompanied by Belgian composer and violinist Jean Gehot.

His father, Horace Ayckbourn, was an orchestral violinist, at one time deputy leader of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Strauss's style began to truly develop and change when, in 1885, he met Alexander Ritter, a noted composer and violinist, and the husband of one of Richard Wagner's nieces.

In 1740, he began his career as a professional musician, becoming violinist and valet to one of the university's canons, Johann Baptist, Count of Thurn-Valsassina and Taxis, in 1740.

According to the writings of Samuel Hartlib, composer and violinist Johann Schop was one of those instructors.

Froberger lamented the emperor's death and dedicated to him one of his most celebrated works, Lamentation faite sur la mort très douloureuse de Sa Majesté Impériale, Ferdinand le troisième ; a tombeau for Ferdinand III's death was composed by the renowned violinist Johann Heinrich Schmelzer.

There is a compact disc of one made by the violinist Alfredo Campoli which is taken from acetates of a French radio broadcast ; these are thought to date from early in 1939.

It is given to people eminent in the field of classical music ; they have almost always been composers ( George Frederick Anderson was one exception ; he was a violinist who is not known to have ever composed any music ).

Carl Stamitz was the first son of Johann Stamitz ( 1717 – 1757 ), a violinist and composer of the pre-classical area who not only composed some of the best instrumental music ( symphonies, concertos ) between Bach and Mozart, but as leader and first violinist also turned the Mannheim court orchestra into the best one in Europe.

In contrast with Slapp Happy's song-based music, in 1972 Péron, Sosna and Diermaier also collaborated with the violinist Tony Conrad on Outside the Dream Syndicate ; the record was released in 1973 at a low price in the UK and was, at the time, one of the few available examples of drone-based minimalism.

In 1894, he wrote to violinist Eugène Ysaÿe describing his Nocturnes as " an experiment in the different combinations that can be obtained from one color-what a study in grey would be in painting.

Although he seemed to be gradually recovering from his stroke, another one in 1879 ended his career as a violinist for good.

When Conrad Gauthier's troupe was missing a folk violinist for a performance, one of Bolduc's friends arranged for her to fill in for the absent performer.

During this period, Jones started featuring violinist Eddie Stone as one of his regular vocalists.

As jazz became more popular in the 1930s, one of the rising stars was the talented violinist Svend Asmussen ( born 1916 ) who made his first recordings in 1934 at the age of 18 and was still playing with his quartet more than 70 years later.

In 1722, Veracini was involved in a quarrel, staged according to one source by the composer and violinist Pisendel, which resulted in Veracini leaping out of an upper-story window.

Tartini, the great composer and violinist of the XVIIIth century, was denounced as one who got his best inspirations from the Evil One, with whom he was, it was said, in regular league.

His love for his instrument was greatly augmented when, at the age of ten, he heard Viotti play one of his concertos, and from that day the great violinist became his model.

Schuon's father was a concert violinist and the household was one in which not only music but literary and spiritual culture were present.

The youngest musician ever admitted to the Conservatory was five-year old violinist Clara Rockmore, who later became one of the world's foremost theremin players.

He had one son, Ekrem Zeki, who followed in Üngör ’ s footsteps to become a violinist and music instructor.

The recordings drew on very nearly the entire history of jazz, from Louis Armstrong's " Struttin ' With Some Barbecue " with valve trombonist Marshall Brown to two completely free duos: one with a Duke Ellington associate, violinist Ray Nance, and one with guitarist Jim Hall.