BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Victor Borge: The Great Dane A look back at the career of pianist and comedian victor borge, who has died aged91. victor borge built a career by delighting audiences with virtuoso http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1085000/1085722.stm
Extractions: Victor Borge built a career by delighting audiences with virtuoso piano-playing and paralysing them with laughter at his irreverence towards the pomposity of classical music. A typical performance would start, not with the opening bars of a classical composition, but with a minute inspection of the piano from all angles
BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Comedian Victor Borge Dies The Danishborn pianist and comedian victor borge, whose eccentric shows earnedhim the nickname Clown Prince of Denmark, dies aged 91. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1085000/1085323.stm
Extractions: He often gave command performances for kings, queens and presidents. He was knighted by the kings of Norway, Denmark and Sweden and was twice honoured by the US Congress. His repertoire included pranks such as falling off his piano stool, playing music upside down and using "phonetic punctuation" - funny sounds interspersed in his monologues. US celebrity He became one of the highest paid entertainers in the United States and kept up a busy career into his 80s. His video, The Best of Victor Borge, sold some three million copies.
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Victor Borge victor borge passed away December 23. If he was a clown or not depends uponwhether you A lot of his humor is based upon his amazing skill as a pianist. http://www.charliethejugglingclown.com/victor_borge.htm
Extractions: Victor Borge by: Bruce Johnson Victor Borge passed away December 23. If he was a clown or not depends upon whether you use an exclusive or inclusive style definition of clowning. It is a matter of personal opinion. I personally think he was a masterful clown who used a naturalistic appearance. In any case, clowns could learn a lot by studying his work, which fortunately is well documented by audio and video recordings. I had the pleasure of seeing to of his live performances. At the age of 91, he was still performing. The only adjustment he had to make for age was eliminating the fall off his piano bench. He was the subject of the cover story of The Clown In Times Volume Six Issue Three. Here is some information excerpted from that article. (The original article is much too long to reproduce here.) Victor Borge (Jan. 3, 1909 - Dec. 23, 2000) Victor Borge said, "to people who take music seriously, I'm a musician. To people who don't take music seriously, I'm a comedian. To people who don't take anything seriously, I'm a clown." Whether or not you consider Victor Borge a clown, clowns can learn from him and be inspired by him. For example, one of his routines is to start playing a piece, which doesn't come out right. He takes a closer look at the sheet music, turns it over, resumes playing, and now it sounds right. Arthur Pedlar uses a similar bit in his routine. One of Victor's sons tours with him playing an inept page-turner. Albert Alter plays a similar role in the BozoArts Duo. Victor combines physical comedy, verbal humor, and amazing musical ability.
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Extractions: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000, see the concert picture ), famous Danish-American entertainer and pianist, has exclusively for this web site recorded Andersen's beloved song " Denmark, my native land " - valid for Victor Borge himself, too. Music by Henrik Rung (1807-71), played by Victor Borge in his own arrangement, recorded at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.A., 1998 You were there, in my childhood back in Denmark. And you were here, when I arrived in New York in 1940. And wherever you are now, I fancy you are up there in some heavenly Elysium, with Mozart and your friend Mendels sohn playing Bach and you maybe telling your stories in the unique, sublime literery fashion in which you wrote them. Wherever you are, know that we refer to you with reverence and pride, as your pen has engraved your name in the stars forever.
Extractions: Victor Borge se koncertbillede ), den berømte dansk-amerikanske entertainer og pianist, har eksklusivt til denne hjemmeside indspillet Andersens meget populære sang, " " ("I Danmark er jeg født") - hvis begyndelsesord som bekendt også har gyldighed for Victor Borge selv. Musikken er af Henrik Rung her spillet af Victor Borge i hans eget arrangement og indspillet i hans hjem i Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.A., 1998.
Creative Quotations From Victor Borge (1909-2000) victor borge in quotations to inspire creative thinking. US pianist, comedian .He combines music with humor to create musical satire; guest with major http://www.creativequotations.com/one/1647.htm
Extractions: "Humor [is] something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth." "In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist but I found I had nothing to say." "When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance." "If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward." Published Sources for the above Quotations: F: King Features R: "In "Times" (London), 3 Jan 1984." A: "In "Treasury of Humorous Quotations," eds. William Cole and Louis Phillips, 1996." N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
Victor Borge victor borge. (borge Rosenbaum) pianist, comedian Born 1/3/1909 BirthplaceCopenhagen. Danishborn musical comedian who combined virtuosic piano skills, http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0902015.html
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Victor Borge - The Great Dane victor borge (pronounced Borga) just celebrated his 91st birthday. When Icame to America, who needed a pianist? borge recalls. http://www.holeintheweb.com/drp/bhd/VictorBorge.htm
Extractions: They laughed when he sat down to play Victor Borge (pronounced Bor -ga) just celebrated his 91 st Borge is, of course, far more. Unique in both classical music and comedy, Borge is a very good pianist who is also very funny. Borge was born Borge Rosenbaum on January 3, 1909, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father, Bernhard Rosebaum, was a musician in the Royal Danish Chapel, and his mother introduced him to the piano when he was three. He was regarded as a prodigy and given a scholarship at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Still in his teens, he earned scholarships to study with noted pianists in Vienna and Berlin. He made his public debut on piano in 1926, gaining immediate recognition. He made his revue debut in 1933 and his film debut in 1937. As a Jew, Borge did not care for the events transpiring next door in Germany. Such barbs forced him to flee Denmark just ahead of the Nazi invasion, to give performances in Sweden which he had prudently booked. From there he went to Finland, and he escaped to the United States on the S.S. American Legion, the last American passenger ship to leave Northern Europe before World War II.
Celsius Centre For Scandinavian Studies victor borge learned music at a young age using his mother s piano. When hewas about 12, he saw a Russian pianist in Copenhagen, Denmark, http://www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/scanlink/nornotes/vol4/articles/borge.html
Extractions: Vol 4 2000 - Article Cheryl Tregarthen My grandfather was one of the great inventors of his time; he invented the burglar alarm, which unfortunately was stolen from him. Victor Borge learned music at a young age using his mother's piano. His father, a violinist, played for 35 years with Denmark's Royal Opera Orchestra, and when he came home, Borge said, "My mother didn't recognise him." He started playing the piano when he was only three years old and made his orchestral debut as a soloist with the Copenhagen Philharmonic when he was 10. He was hailed as a genius and given a scholarship to the Royal Danish Music Conservatory. He was educated by Olivo Krause, and later by Victor Schiøler, Frederic Lamond, a protege of Franz Liszt, and Egon Petri. Arriving in New York at Ellis Island, like many emigrants, he had no money, he was unknown and he did not speak the language. After a year he gravitated towards California and Hollywood in particular. Borge was soon playing at Hollywood parties often mingling with members of the Hollywood "Mafia". It was at one of these parties that Rudy Vallee discovered the talents of Victor Borge. Vallee helped Borge get his start in his new country by doing the warmup for the Rudy Vallee radio show. Carroll Carroll, chief writer for Bing Crosby, heard Borge's warmup in Dec. 1941.
University Of Nebraska-Lincoln - Scarlets Web - 9/25/98 victor borge, Ambassador of Goodwill, Brings Humor, Charm to Lied Center chair of the School of Music at Wichita State and a noted jazz pianist. http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v8n26/v8n26arts.html
Extractions: Prepare to laugh out loud - Victor Borge's coming to town. Part classical piano concert, part funnyman and all first-class, Borge's concert begins at 7 p.m. (one hour earlier than usual) Oct. 11 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Borge's motto is "The smile is the shortest distance between people." And for more than 70 years, The Great Dane has charmed audiences worldwide with his satirical concert theatrics and his consummate piano skills. Classical music provides classical comedy for this gentleman performer who never fails to amuse audiences of all ages.
Borge, Victor -- Encyclopædia Britannica borge, victor Danishborn American pianist and comedian (b. Jan. 3, 1909,Copenhagen, Den.d. Dec. 23, 2000, Greenwich, Conn.), was known worldwide for his http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9345348&query=homonym&ct=
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Extractions: by Seth Rogovoy LENOX, Mass., July 28, 1996 Give the 87-year-old Victor Borge credit for not playing things totally by the book. At his performance at the National Music Center on Saturday night, the piano-playing comedian made frequent humorous reference to the sparse crowd in attendance. "Had I known we were going to be this few, we could have gone to my hotel room," said Borge, garnering one of his biggest laughs of the night. In a bit of pre-show drama, promoter Richard Nader invited those who did show but who were mostly seated toward the rear of the hall to move forward and fill in the row after row of seats that sat empty toward the front of the auditorium. There were apparently few takers for the $100 seats; it's not clear how those few who did spring top bucks for the show ultimately felt about rubbing elbows with the hoi polloi. In any case, Borge was a good sport about it, joking about how he peeked out from backstage before the show and saw nothing but red- suited people in the front rows (the seats are red). Presumably if it hadn't been this, it would have been some other theme about the venue Borge would have riffed on in order to add some freshness to a show that otherwise was wearingly familiar and routine. In some sense, Borge's comedy is as up-to-date and cutting-edge as Steven Wright's. It's a slow, conceptual type of comedy that relies more on cognitive leaps of faith than rib-tickling joke-telling, although there was a bit of that, too. At one point he even played games with the shadow cast by the spotlight on the black backdrop an eerie echo of something Wright himself did at this very venue a few years back.
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Borge, Victor Famous Quotes Famous Quotes By borge, victor. 1909 Danish Entertainer pianist. Humor issomething that thrives between man s aspirations and his limitations. http://www.borntomotivate.com/FamousQuote_VictorBorge.html
Anecdote - Victor Borge - Tuscan Wit? pianist victor borge was once asked why the keys on his piano were so yellow . borge, victor (1909 ) Danish-born American comedian and pianist http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=559
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Extractions: Victor Borge (The capital and largest city of Denmark; located on the island of Zealand) Copenhagen (A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea) Denmark as Børge Rosenbaum and died in Greenwich, (A New England state; one of the original 13 colonies) Connecticut (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) USA . Affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane , he was a humorist, entertainer and world-class (A person who plays the piano) pianist Borge first studied piano with his father and gave his first piano recital when he was 8 years old, then he went on to study in (Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany) Berlin with Frederic Lamond and Egon Petri. Performing in musical revues introduced him to musical comedy, and he satirized (German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)) Adolf Hitler . When Denmark was occupied by the (A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party) Nazi s during (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl)
