As I mentioned earlier, apart from the electricity bit it started with Vivaldi, teaching foundling girls in Venice: <http://www.users.cloud9.net/~recross/why-not/Vivaldi.html>
"The young ladies for whom Vivaldi composed and directed music were known as the putte or maidens. [...] The reputation of the Pieta surpassed anything in Europe and drew visitors from all over Europe. Even Pope Pius IV came to hear the girls play and sing. The putte did not travel and were not allowed to perform outside the ospedale. Descriptions of contemporaries of the day give a nice picture of what a visitor might encounter at the Pietà . [...] Dr. Brasses, president of the Dijon Parliament, France: "They sing like angels, [...] in short, there is no instrument so large as to frighten them." " B > > And Jean-Luc Ponty beat them all. > > I was commenting on where the "sexy girls w/electric violins playing > classical music" thingy came from; a limited subset. > > From: Boris Liberman > > > In my ears, Vanessa Mae is far better violin player than Bond. I > should > > also mention that Mik Kaminski of ELO (although he's no woman) seems > to > > predate both. Few years ago I went to the concert of "Orchestra" > (some > > members of ELO and others of ELO II) and he played his blue electric > > violin magnificently. > > > > Boris > > > > On 6/25/2011 19:24, P. J. Alling wrote: > >> > The DeBeers commercial has really ruined that particular song, for > me > >> > and the damned dancers in that clip were annoyingly distracting, > what > >> > are producers of these shows thinking anyway? Oh, I know, the > audience > >> > is made up of Assholes... > >> > > >> > On 6/20/2011 5:50 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > >>> >> Seems to have started with a string quartet called Bond. They > did a > >>> >> version of Karl Jenkins' Palladio Allegro (the DeBeers diamond > >>> >> commercial song) that seemed to kind of kick off the whole girls > & > >>> >> electric violins thingy. > >>> >> > >>> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8lXkH0IsQY&feature=related > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1388 / Virus Database: 1513/3727 - Release Date: 06/26/11 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
