Violinist Says Thanks
Last month, violinist Philippe Quint got out of a taxicab in Manhattan – and left his four million dollar Stradivarius violin behind. You might think, "This is not going to end happily." But it did....
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A 1703 Stradivarius (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Nearly every accomplished violinist lusts after a Stradivarius instrument, but few will ever own one. The number of surviving violins from Antonio...
View ArticleInstrument: Unaffordable
The Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesu What would you do if the tools you use to do your job cost you a half-million dollars? This is the quandry that working musicians face. Responsive, sweet-toned...
View ArticleViolinist Philippe Quint on the Screen
Philippe Quint (Arts Management Group) During the 2005-2006 season, the Akron Symphony was led by candidates for their music director gig. These auditions were all musically satisfying. You’d expect...
View ArticleViolin Theft Rattles Music World
The Lipinski Strad (Frank Almond) Recently, the Minnesota Orchestra’s musicians and management resolved a long standing dispute partly fueled by the board’s insistence on cutting the players’ salaries....
View ArticleStolen Strad Recovered
The Lipinski Strad (Michael Darnton) Police in Milwaukee today (Thursday 6 February) confirmed that a violin recovered from the attic of a house in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood is the rare...
View ArticleViolinists Can’t Tell Strad from Modern? Really?
The Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesu It’s all over the news: In a recent study, Claudia Fritz of the Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert in Paris asked 10 well known violinists to play six old Italian violins...
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