Victor Borge RIP victor borge dies at 91. InfoBeat Denmark pianist victor borge dies at 91 GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) - victor borge, the daffy pianist 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 Olivo Krause, and later by victor Schiøler, Frederic his career as a classical pianist, but his 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!
Victor Borge - Wikipedia victor borge (3. januar 1909 23. december 2000) var en dansk pianist og entertainer. Han blev født i København. victor borge blev døbt Børge Rosenbaum. http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Borge
Extractions: Victor Borge 3. januar 23. december ) var en dansk pianist og entertainer. Han blev født i København . Victor Borge blev døbt Børge Rosenbaum. Sit musikalske talent havde han fra sin far, som var medlem af Det kongelige Kapel. I blev Borge tvunget til at forlade Danmark på grund af den nazistiske jødeforfølgelse. Skønt han ikke talte engelsk, lykkedes det ham snart at "oversætte" sin humor, og han optrådte i Bing Crosby 's radio show i 1941. I 1942 blev han udnævnt til "the best new radio performer of the year". Victor Borge døde, 91 år gammel i sit hjem i Connecticut den 23. december 2000, netop hjemkommet fra en tur til sit elskede København. Views Personlige værktøjer Navigation Søg Værktøjer Andre sprog English Senest ændret den 11. feb 2004 kl. 09:34. Indholdet er udgivet under GNU Free Documentation License Om Wikipedia Forbehold
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Victor Borge -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article orig. borge Rosenbaum. born Jan. 3, 1909, Copenhagen, Den. died Dec. 23, 2000, Greenwich, Conn., US victor borge. Danishborn US comedian and pianist. http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=383042&query=venue&ct=gen1
Borge, Victor -- Encyclopædia Britannica Encyclopædia Britannica, Year in Review 2000 obituary borge, victor Encyclopædia Britannica Article. Danishborn American pianist and comedian (b. Jan. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=370678
Penn Special Collections-Winigrad 60 110. Previous Image. Next Image. Index. Subject borge, victor pianist/comedian Place Philadelphia. Date 1981. Collection location Box 2, Item 60. http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/photos/winigrad/060.html
Victor Borge Quotes - The Quotations Page Quotations by Author. victor borge (1909 ) US (Danish-born) comedian pianist more author details. Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total, http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Victor_Borge/
Victor Borge - Author Details And Biography - The Quotations Page Quotations by Author. Author details victor borge (1909 ). Full Name, borge, victor (orig. borge Rosenbaum). Biography, US (Danish-born) comedian pianist. http://www.quotationspage.com/author.php?author=Victor Borge
Victor Borge victor borge (19092000) was a concert pianist and comedian in his home country, Denmark, when the Nazi s invaded in 1940. borge 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
Victor Borge victor borge, who learned music at his mother s knee (the family had no piano), wasn t When he was about 12, he saw a Russian pianist in Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/borge2.htm
Extractions: Victor Borge, who learned music at his mother's knee (the family had no piano), wasn't always 90. Often he was younger. He gave his first concert at 8 "or a few minutes after." When he was about 12, he saw a Russian pianist in Copenhagen, Denmark, accidentally fall off the piano bench. That was for him, marveled young Victor (which wasn't yet his name), "such a cheap slapstick thing." He has been doing it himself almost ever since, although his doctors have recently warned him against it. So, he says, "I still don't do it." But of course he does, in every show. Borge, the long-reigning keyboard comic who lives on a 4 1/2 -acre waterfront estate in Greenwich, Conn., when he is not someplace else, has been making audiences laugh for most of the century, and the fact that he became a nonagenarian Jan. 3 seems no reason to stop. As he says in his recent book of the same name: "Smilet er den korteste afstand." In English: "A smile is the shortest distance." Meaning, between people. (This is Borge's third book and the only one that doesn't have hundreds of footnotes.) Having entertained an estimated 12 million people, and still performing about 60 shows a year, he is planning a Broadway reprise almost 45 years after establishing the Broadway record for a one-man show, 849 performances. The New York Philharmonic and leading orchestras in London, Copenhagen, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland and Los Angeles have fallen under his baton.
Extractions: WEB SERVICES: Aired December 23, 2000 - 8:12 p.m. ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: The clown prince of Denmark is dead. Pianist and comic Victor Borge died Saturday at age 91. Borge actually began his career as a classical pianist, but his talent for making the audience laugh soon led him to blend humor with his music. Video sales of his performances reached 3 million copies.
Extractions: WEB SERVICES: Aired December 23, 2000 - 5:14 p.m. ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: Danish pianist and comedian Victor Borge has died in Greenwich, Connecticut. His longtime manager says Borge died today at home in his sleep at the age of 91. Well, he was known as the crown prince of Denmark. Borge had just returned from Copenhagen to spend the holidays with his family.
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Extractions: Awarded a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999, this "Great Dane" was a well-respected Classical pianist before he brought together Classical compositions with Pop music and his own unique comic sensibilities to become one of the best-loved performers in the world. This release captures Borge in a musically great and wildly funny live performance. The Great Dane of Comedy, Victor Borge is a well-respected Classical pianist who combines his musical talents with his comedic skills in a one-of-a-kind career. Borge was recently given a Kennedy Center Honor - one of the nation's highest - for his remarkable talents. This on-stage performance will give you a taste of the hilarity and musical ... Read More
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Kennedy Center: Biographical Information For Victor Borge victor borge (comedian and pianist; born January 3, 1909, in Copenhagen; died December 23 , 2000) He looks like a elder statesman and speaks with the charming http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entit
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Extractions: A Tribute to Victor Borge - Contains a biography, pictures, sounds and videos, the Website Inflater, and a Borge quote-of-the-day in Danish and English. You can share your memories in the Forum. Obituary for Victor Borge. - From obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network. Obituary - February 2001 issue of Mermaid Lounge, a magazine for Danish culture information. Concert Review: Victor Borge: A Classic Classical Comedian - Review from when Borge was "only" 82. Magazine written entirely by teens for teenagers. Greeting from Victor Borge to Hans Christian Andersen - An homage to Hans Christian Andersen, written by Victor Borge Victor Borge Obituary - Celebrity Deathwatch: Victor Borge, Comic Pianist, 91. Working With Victor Borge - A conversation with Leonid Hambro, originally printed in HotAIR. Four Cheers Five Victor Borge - Article by Richard Lederer in HotAIR.
