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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
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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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Extractions: Danish-born musical comedian who combined virtuosic piano skills, a sharp wit, sight gags, and an irrepressible sense of humor in his stage performances. His Broadway production, Comedy in Music, ran for an unprecedented 849 performances. Borge left Europe for the United States in 1940 to escape the Nazis. Died: Greenwich, Conn., 12/23/2000
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Extractions: The 2 funniest comedian-musicians of the 20th century were Victor Borge and Danny Kaye. Whereas the former relied heavily on understatementteasing the viewer with the expectation of a performance that never seems to unfold, the latter was so free in sharing his prodigious talent that he risked being taken for granted. The common denominator between the two entertainers was a love of language, a penchant for word play and a delight in exposing the inconsistencies of the grammatical-semantic properties of English. Borge is at his best when he applies his facility with languages to the language of music. But comedy "in" music as opposed to comedy "about" music requires a relatively sophisticated, knowledgeable audience. As time went on, Borge relied more and more on visual humor, slapstick and "dumb" jokes, as is documented by this video recording of a concert late in his career in Minneapolis. And as dumb as it frequently can be, the humor succeeds because of Borge's persona. We know he's a polished, graceful pianist, that he has intellectual pedigree, and we sense an air of aristocratic gentility not to mention cosmopolitan urbanity. Consequently, if he can reduce himself to some of this material, we sense that we're "released" to enjoy it fully even if occasionally "in spite of ourselves"
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Extractions: JOE ESKENAZI Bulletin Staff Victor Borge's onstage antics included self-tangling sheet music, impromptu appearances from dogs and insects, more pratfalls than a Three Stooges marathon and upside-down piano playing (the sheet music, not Victor). Borge's speech has been converted into "The Legend," a short, musical play that is vintage Borge minus the pratfalls. "It's very much in Victor Borge's style, not that there's falling on the floor or playing a crazy piano. But he played a lot with words," said Danish-born actress and musician Ditte Hofman, who has been performing "The Legend" for several years, along with violinist Heide-Marie Goertzen. The two will present the 20-minute musical soliloquy Monday evening at Berkeley's Congregation Beth El as part of the congregation's Yom HaShoah observance. Admission is free. "Since he wrote it, of course there's humor, but it's also very dramatic and serious," said Hofman, who is now based in New York. "It's about heroes and helping people in need even though you're risking your own life." Hofman was first offered the chance to perform "The Legend" by Borge himself back in 2000. After his death on Dec. 23 of that year, just days shy of his 92nd birthday, the Thanks to Scandinavia organization the pianist co-founded asked Hofman to perform the piece at a tribute to Borge.
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Extractions: Den 5. december 1999 modtog Victor Borge den meget prestigefyldte amerikanske pris: The Kennedy Center Honor. En ære, der kun overgår personer, der har gjort noget helt særligt på de skønne kunsters område. Og i år var det en verdenskendt 90-årig dansk/amerikaner, der modtog denne berømte pris. Præsident Clinton introducerede Victor Borge og takkede ham for sin indsats, og da Borge fik mikrofonen kvitterede han med at sige: "Hvem er den mand?"
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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.
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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.
Victor Borge - Wikipedia Entry at the collaboratory encyclopedia.Category Arts Music Bands and Artists B borge, victor the Great Dane , he was not only an unequaled humorist and entertainer but alsoa world class pianist. http//www.kor.dk/borge/ A Tribute to victor borge. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor Borge
Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Victor Borge January 3 December 23 ) was born in Copenhagen Denmark as Børge Rosenbaum and died in Greenwich, Connecticut USA Affectionately known as "the Great Dane", he was not only an unequaled humorist and entertainer but also a world class pianist. After having escaped from the Nazi occupation of Denmark in the second world war he went on to become one of the most popular entertainers in USA. His act, Comedy in Music , is the longest standing one man show ever.
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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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