Victor Borge a description of victor borge included venues, dates, times and costs. in 1940 the pianist was briefly blacklisted before fleeing to the United States, http://www.findthefun.com/bands/lists/..\b01\b0010235.htm
Victor Borge Quotes - The Quotations Page victor borge (1909 2000) US (Danish-born) comedian pianist more author details victor borge; Laughter is the closest distance between two people. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Victor_Borge
Victor Borge - Lost Episodes Of Victor Borge Vol. 2 : MovieOutfitter.com The comedic master who has made the piano his partner, victor borge has entertained rare footage and many previously unseen skits of the clown pianist. http://www.movieoutfitter.com/store/item/744433001196/VictorBorge-LostEpisodesof
Extractions: UPC-Code Category Comedies Source Repnet Originally Released DVD Release Date Rating Not Rated Runtime Hours 53 Minutes Director DESCRIPTION The comedic master who has made the piano his partner, Victor Borge has entertained audiences for over half a century. This collection of Borge's skills includes rare footage and many previously unseen skits of the clown pianist.
Victor Borge RIP InfoBeat Denmark pianist victor borge dies at 91 GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) - victorborge, the daffy pianist whose whimsical approach to the classics earned http://users.cybercity.dk/~bse5560/borge2.html
Extractions: For decades, Borge delighted audiences by deflating the pomposity of classical music. He fell off his bench, played music upside down and repeatedly milked laughs from such classic routines as ``phonetic punctuation'' in which he used goofy sounds to indicate commas, periods and question marks in his monologue. ``I think he brought laughter to every person he came in contact with,'' Rikke Borge said Saturday. ``He had a long and happy life.'' Borge kept up a busy career into his 80s, touring and issuing videos, including his most popular, ``The Best of Victor Borge,'' which sold some 3 million copies. His longtime agent, Bernard Gurtman, said he had had concerts booked for the next two years. ``Some people reach the point where they must try desperately to hold on to something that isn't there anymore, no matter how great they are,'' Borge said in an interview in 1986. ``This is where I am very, very lucky. We all do what we can, we all have limitations. Apparently, within my limitations, there is enough to go on and on and on and on.'' Borge performed 100 or more nights a year, sometimes as pianist and sometimes as conductor, usually as a clown but sometimes in dead earnest. In his later years, he directed Mozart's ``Magic Flute'' in Cleveland and prepared a concert version of ``Carmen.'' In 1999, he was one of five performers selected for the Kennedy Center Honors.
Victor Borge RIP victor borge was born Copenhagen, Denmark January 3, 1909 as Børge Rosenbaum He started his career as a classical pianist, but his talent for making the http://users.cybercity.dk/~bse5560/borge.html
Extractions: In 1942 he was pronounced "the best new radio performer of the year" by the American press, and his radio and TV shows became extremely popular. He became an American citizen in 1948, and had his own show, "Comedy in Music", at The Golden Theatre, New York 1953-56 - for the at that time record highest paycheck ever!
Extractions: The youngest performer ever in Carnegie Hall.... and his dad! Enjoy the only Father/Son piano duo in the country. Internationally acclaimed pianist/humorist Peter Simon is joined by fellow pianist and son, Sailing Simon, in a delightful evening of classical and popular music interspersed with humorous stories and fun for all ages. From Carnegie Hall:
Splogman's Schrijfsels: Victor Borge Korte beschrijving van het leven van deze briljante pianist en humorist. victor borge werd op 3 januari 1909 in Denemarken geboren als Børge Rosenbaum, http://www.dse.nl/~mereldwijn/Borge.html
Extractions: Op het web is echter weinig over deze beroemde pianist en komiek te vinden, tenminste niet in het nederlands. De informatie in dit schrijfsel komt dan ook voornamelijk uit engelstalige bronnen (op het web en achter op LP-hoezen). Meer informatie, foto's en muziek vind je onder de knop Tribute to Victor Borge.
Extractions: What is RSS? BIZARRE VIDEO - Thursday, May 19, 2005 "Spanning the globe for the weird...strange...and stupid." Greetings fellow Bizarros: The gentleman featured in today's clip is definitely bizarre, but he also has the advantages of being incredibly talented and funny. If you've never heard of Victor Borge you're in for a treat. Even in this very short clip he demonstrates his unique talent as a humorist, entertainer and world class pianist. Please scroll down for the link. Bizarrely, Lewis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It got so bad that I avoided the telephone and dreaded going to the mailbox." If you are drowning in debt and don't see a way out, help is available... but you need to take the first step by visiting: Visit here for help getting rid of your debt We urge you to visit today. Because new bankruptcy laws are going into effect that will greatly reduce your ability to eliminate debt. So get rid of that crushing debt and get back to a stress-free life. Visit today to fill out a 60 second, CONFIDENTIAL application: Visit here for help getting rid of your debt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Click here for Victor Borge performing Tchaikovsky...
Jimpoz.com - Victor Borge The Clown Prince of Denmark, borge was both a talented pianist and a comedian . The repository contains one quote by victor borge. http://www.jimpoz.com/quotes/speaker.asp?speakerid=187
CBC Manitoba - Winnipeg Fringe 2004 - Show Reviews - Borge Again! He s like victor borge Hersch inhabits the body of the famous Danish comedianand classical pianist paying tribute to his material and his life. http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/fringe2004/reviews/borge.html
Paul Greenberg victor borge was a fine pianist and pretty fair musician, but he was a greatentertainer. Watching him was like being with an old friend in your own parlor, http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg122900.asp
Extractions: Victor Borge: The one-man Marx brothers http://www.jewishworldreview.com I SAW the obituary in the paper and laughed out loud. Not a very seemly thing to do at the death of a 91-year-old, but he would have understood. I can picture The Great Pianist now in white tie, flipping his tails before he sat down on a piano bench that wasn't there. Once again he was racing his poor page-turner through a too-familiar bit of music in a mad rush to the finish line. Or maybe sitting there drumming his fingers while the page-turner hustled and rustled to catch up. Victor Borge was young, then middle-aged, then old, but only in years. In his mind, he was always in his teen-aged prime. There were times when he would follow the music right off the piano, and then follow it himself. He was from a different, better-humored, sillier yet subtler era, and it was a great era to visit for an evening. After all those years we knew what was coming but not when, and somehow the musical punch lines never lost their punch. I'm not sure just how he did it, but the oldest act on the boards always surprised from year to year, even decade to decade.
Winter 2001 Newsletter Virtuosic pianist Eric Reed has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, victor borge, one of the three founders of the APA, dies at age 91 http://www.americanpianists.org/news/winter2001.html
Extractions: Winner of numerous national and international musical competitions, Wlodek Pawlik was awarded first prize in the instrumentalist category at the 1984 International Jazz Competition in Dunkerque, France and second prize at the 1988 International Composition Competition in Monaco, Spain. In 1996, he was named Musician of the Year by JazzIz Magazine.
Victor Borge The Great Dane victor borge (19092000) was a concert pianist and comedian inhis home country, Denmark, when the Nazi s invaded in 1940. http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/Biology/lewis/crosby/borge.htm
Extractions: Victor Borge (1909-2000) was a concert pianist and comedian in his home country, Denmark, when the Nazi's invaded in 1940. Borge, a Jew, abandoned all his worldly possessions and fled to the United States, where he got a job in 1941 doing the warmup for the Rudy Vallee radio show. Carroll Carroll, chief writer for Bing Crosby, heard Borge's warmup in Dec. 1941. Borge's act involved reading a story, including each punctuation mark, to which he assigned a sound. Carroll had Borge booked for the very next Kraft Music Hall. Carroll finishes the story: "Victor was scheduled to go on after the station break. That meant there'd be a song by Bing, the Victor Borge spot, a commercial, a song by Bing, another guest spot, a song by Bing, a commercial, theme, sign-off. "I shortened the other guest shot because I knew Victor needed time. We took a chorus out of one of Bing's songs. Victor agreed that he could do the spot in 12 minutes. That is, we thought he agreed. He spoke almost no English and only understood, if anything, what he chose to. Bing's intro said he'd seen Victor Borge warming up an audience for Rudy Vallee and anybody who's good enough to warm up a Vallee audience has got to be good enough to heat up an audience in the old Kraft Music Hall. "Victor came on and repeated the punctuation routine and got the same earthquakelike reaction. After 12 minutes he was still going. We lost a commercial. He kept right on going. We lost a Crosby song. Then we lost a guest spot and another Crosby song and another commercial and the closing theme and we went off the air with people howling and applauding Borge. A telephone call came from New York telling us to sign the guy for as long as possible." (Carroll Carroll
Being Victor Borge Being victor borge is a tribute to a brilliant pianist, virtuoso comedian and,at one point, the highest paid entertainer in the world. http://www.chelmsfordbc.gov.uk/news/june05/borge.htm
Extractions: with Rainer Hersch Wednesday 22 June, 7.30pm Tales of a Great Dane Being Victor Borge is a tribute to a brilliant pianist, virtuoso comedian and, at one point, the highest paid entertainer in the world. This hilarious evenings entertainment, starring Rainer Hersch , comes to the Civic Theatre on Wednesday 22 June and offers a fascinating insight into the world of Danish musician and comedian, Victor Borge Audiences throughout the English-speaking world loved his top-rating TV shows and his live performances Borge carried on touring the world until he was well into his eighties, a career that spanned more than 50 years. Borges popularity was such that his devotees sprang from a wide range of places and backgrounds: it is even rumoured that the Queen was so enamoured with one of his routines that she memorised it and performed it at private dinner parties.
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Musicians Collection, Folder List A-E Photo, 1921? fc 1 borge, victor, pianist. Photo; souvenir program, ca. 1955 fc1 Bostic, Earl, conductor fc 1 Boston Male Chorus (2) ofc Bottesini, http://www.dev.lib.utexas.edu/utexas/hrc/www/research/fa/musicians.folder.a-e.ht
Random Pensées: Victor Borge victor borge. Does anyone remember him? He died some years ago. borge was a DanishJew who, while a classically trained pianist and musician, made it big in http://randompensees.mu.nu/archives/037376.php
Extractions: This is a collection of random thoughts about politics, culture, family, society and whatever either catches my interest or outrages me at that particular moment. Main Does anyone remember him? He died some years ago. Borge was a Danish Jew who, while a classically trained pianist and musician, made it big in the United States as a comedian and musician. He had impecable timing and was so funny without ever needing to joke about sex or use inappropriate langauge you had to explain to a child. I think that one of my favorite bits was the inflationnary language. To wit: you look wonderful tonight becomes you look two-derful three-night. Or, instead of I ate a tenderloin, I nined an elevenderloin. Or, he was a cap-eleven in the air five-ce. You kind of have to hear him to it but you get the idea. TrackBack
Piano Music For The Left Hand Alone musical humorist and pianist victor borge (1909 2000) was a Leschetizky pupil . One can almost hear victor borge say Leschetizky couldn t teach http://hjem.get2net.dk/Brofeldt/Appendix_079_Leschetitzky.htm
Extractions: A ppendix Leschetizky Some of the most famous pianists who were active from c.1890 and till after WW II were pupils of Leschetizky and they came to him from many countries, which made him form his own opinion about the different nationalities and their caracteristiques. This opinion could be seen as some kind of artistic Credo and it is cited in Annette Hullah's book about him from 1906, and just as a curiosity it is worth repeating here: The English are good musicians, good workers and bad executants, doing by work what the Slavs do by instinct; their heads serving them better than their hearts.
