Her husband, violinist Sanford Allen, rehearses Bach on his Stradivarius next door, for a recital upstate, where they have a country house. They married in 1969, after meeting when she was a guide at the Lincoln Center, and he the first African-American to join the New York Philharmonic. He asked me to lunch, then sent a huge bunch of roses to me in London, ... I was only supporting actress. Others thought the lead, Felicity Kendal, should have won.
Quotes about stradivarius (6 Quotes)
For hockey players, the ice is their grand piano, their Stradivarius.
If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung a sign 'The best violins in all Italy.' Not to be outdone, their next-door neighbors, the family Guarnerius, hung a bolder sign proclaiming 'The Best Violins In All The World' At the end of the street was the workshop of Anton Stradivarius, and on its front door was a simple notice which read 'The best violins on the block.'
And then there's McGovern. It's one thing to work with a star, ... and another thing to work with a star who's so generous and kind, as well as talented. This isn't lip service I mean it. She's known as a Stradivarius voice, with her consistent, clear, bell-like tone. Every single night, when she sings 'Days of Plenty' to me because Jo's got writer's block because of a death in the family, it's a struggle for me not to break into tears and fall apart, because I've still got to sing this big 11 o'clock number of my own. She's a great lady and warm and sweet, a generous, lovely lady.