Mary Oliver (violinist)
Mary Oliver (born in La Jolla, California) is an American performer on violin, viola, and Hardanger fiddle, in the areas of New Music, free improvisation, and avant-garde jazz.
She currently lives in Amsterdam, where she is professor at the Hogeschol voor Kunst and musical director of the Magpie Music Dance Company.
Read more about Mary Oliver (violinist): Education, Career, Critical Acclaim, Partial Discography
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“No one to slap his head.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 190, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“When it’s over I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”
—Mary Oliver (b. 1935)