Stolen Stradivarius was most likely in my house

http://media.npr.org/chrome/news/npr-home.png ^ | August 6, 20155:51 PM ET | Nina Totenberg

[kvanbrunt2]

The denouement of a 35-year drama takes place Thursday at the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan. And I trust that my father, virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, who died three years ago, will be watching from somewhere.

For decades he played his beloved Stradivarius violin all over the world. And then one day, he turned around and it was gone. Stolen.

While he was greeting well-wishers after a concert, it was snatched from his office at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass.

[Vendome]

I662 me???

I mean, “really”?

I honestly didn’t think rocks lived that long...

[livius]

Great story! Thanks for posting it!

[csvset]

Vampire playing a violin? Yep, we got a pic for that.

[MrEdd]

See your vampire violinist picture, and raise you a vampire violinist video...https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qGjK6hKahU8

[RoosterRedux]

Millions, not thousands.

[RoosterRedux]

Great story. Thx for posting.

[Atlantan]

Amy Totenberg’s reaction to finding her father’s violin. Amy is a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of GA.

http://www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202734389472/Judge-Reflects-on-Stolen-Violins-Reappearance-as-Coda-to-Parents-Love-Story?slreturn=20151119074

[wbarmy]

I keep getting Nina Totenberg mixed up with Nina Burleigh, she of the presidential kneepads.

[IronJack]

I doubt Nina Totenbag even had a father. She was spawned from some primordial leftist spew.

[o_1_2_3__]

You're story is fascinating, notwithstanding the abysmal level of subhumanity involved.

[o_1_2_3__]

your

[PAR35]

"we started our local high school prayer meeting together."

Sounds like it didn't take in his case.

[Atlantan]

Good thing you caught it before the FR grammar police show up.

[o_1_2_3__]

Seems there’s a memory hole, too.

[kvanbrunt2]

I doubt Nina Totenbag even had a father. She was spawned from some primordial leftist spew.>>>>
made me laugh

[Albion Wilde]

Saw this article today and thought of you:

Child prodigy whose life fell apart when a thief stole her £1.2m violin: Catastrophic loss of the instrument led to ANOREXIA, a broken relationship and the end of her glittering career

[kvanbrunt2]

and the end of her glittering career>>
I could see that effect of something like that. They are such personal instruments.

[Albion Wilde]

I looked at a video of her playing the Strad, and she was quite lyrical with it. Didn’t have time to search for one of her playing her current instrument.

Now I understand why I used to see some couriers going around in airports with aluminum briefcases chained to their waists.