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Roman Totenberg’s stolen Stradivarius was once lost forever. Now, it plays again.
Wa Po ^
| March 14
| Geoff Edgers
Posted on 03/15/2017 9:56:47 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
This is an update article about a violin my childhood friend stole from his teacher. it's wapo and totenbergs but geoff has done a nice job reporting this story.
NEW YORK No two Strads are alike, they say, but the violin that Mira Wang reintroduced to the world Monday night is truly special. It was gone for decades, stolen after a concert in 1980, and its owner, Roman Totenberg, died in 2012 thinking it would never be seen again.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: music; philipjohnson; romantotenberg; stradivarius
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To: ifinnegan
I was struck by the elitism where the hosts of the recital would not even allow the name of their club to be mentioned.You might not think it elitist if you had the money to belong to it but they let just anyone in. You would never be able to get through dinner without being approached by every tom, dick and harry with a proposal for you to invest in their new vegetable slicer or magic auto polish, or leaving a fat envelope with you containing their manuscript so you could contact a movie director for them...
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03/16/2017 8:41:11 AM PDT
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Albion Wilde
("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
To: kvanbrunt2
Fascinating story and thread. Thank you for posting this.
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03/16/2017 9:27:26 AM PDT
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Albion Wilde
("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
To: HiTech RedNeck
And, of course, the subject of study by scientists in an attempt to produce similar instruments today. They can produce exact duplicates but they will never admit that they sound the same. Sort of like fake great paintings that no one can tell from the originals.
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03/16/2017 11:23:01 AM PDT
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itsahoot
( The return of the Super Secret, Super Genius Plan of GW fame #136)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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03/16/2017 11:38:03 AM PDT
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itsahoot
( The return of the Super Secret, Super Genius Plan of GW fame #136)
To: Oratam
Dang. Now I'm going to have "Pop Goes the Weasel" stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
;-)
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03/16/2017 11:59:09 AM PDT
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Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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