{"id":1270,"date":"2016-10-07T22:58:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2016-10-07T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T22:58:48","slug":"a-bow-maker-takes-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"A Bow Maker Takes Aim"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>

The Rolland bow in action, played by Sebastian Ruth<\/p><\/div>\n

World-renowned violin bow maker, Beno\u00eet Rolland has a talent for hearing vibrations within a block of wood.\u00a0 He\u2019s also a person with a keen sensibility for spanning extremes, for finding connections between things that seem vastly separated – like a rarefied world of violin bows and inner city kids, like art and terrorism.\u00a0 He\u2019s used to making crude material\u00a0 create sound that will evoke the ineffable; he\u2019s used to working against the grain.<\/p>\n

Last winter, born out of outrage at the terror attacks in Paris, a special bow came to mind, one that would take aim against terror and defend beauty.\u00a0 The idea went against the grain too but it didn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 \u201cI might feel alone against violence, and it might sound stupid, but art has to respond.\u00a0 People only have to look with perseverance to see beauty.\u00a0 It is there, all around. If people actually take time to look, they see it everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

This bow arrived on Thursday in Providence.\u00a0 It was delivered by special envoy,\u00a0a young Mercury that winged up from the New York-based auction house, Tarisio.\u00a0 The bow rested for a brief time at the headquarters of Community MusicWorks, which will receive the benefits of the sale and go towards free music education to underserved Providence kids.\u00a0 This gift goes from the inner sanctum of a specialized world into the open community.<\/p>\n

People gathered around to admire the exquisite handmade object, its Brazilian pernambuco wood, its \u201cfrog\u201d with a\u00a0 sculpture engraved in ebony, its own\u00a0 little diamond, its mother of pearl finale sourced not from any old shell, but from shells that Benoit found himself while swimming off the coast of northern France.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Ruth, artistic director of CMW, brought it to his violin strings and played lovingly.\u00a0 After a portion of the Bach Chaconne, he pronounced the bow extraordinary, that it made his \u201chot and tempestuous\u201d violin a bit sweeter.\u00a0 Rolland smiled with peaceful satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World-renowned violin bow maker, Beno\u00eet Rolland has a talent for hearing vibrations within a block of wood.\u00a0 He\u2019s also a person with a keen sensibility for spanning extremes, for finding connections between things that seem vastly separated – like a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[509,505,181,510,507,506,508],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-auction-house","tag-benoit-rolland","tag-community-musicworks","tag-macarthur-award-winners","tag-master-violin-maker","tag-rolland-bow","tag-tarisio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-ku","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}