violin

Heavy violins do too much of the talking.

Ellis audibly counts the band in when required, and sometimes conducts or directs them with a nod or a wave of a violin bow.

It's a suitably intense performance, with Justyna singing long sustained notes and playing a furious violin solo, before being hoiked into the rafters on a pair ropes.

It was a Black New Orleans band with horns and background singers and a violin player — not Juilliard violin but like a janky New Orleans violin.

Their vacation schedule brings them together in spring, summer, fall and winter — in that order, in the story — a plan that conveniently allows for Vivaldi’s well-known violin concerti to fill up the soundtrack.