Word: stradivariuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobs as a theater usher, truck driver and (currently) laboratory clerk in a Philadelphia hospital. The trip to Brussels was made possible by the sale of the family's baby grand, plus a $250 gift from the Cleveland Society for Strings and the loan of a $40,000 Stradivarius. Jaime's victory brought him $3,000 in prize money. He is now concertizing in Belgium, and will soon start practicing for his Manhattan debut -in Carnegie Hall next fall...
...lined study on Boston's Beacon Street. He attributes his success as a detective to his refusal to trust authorities. But even Slonimsky can err. He "feels disgraced" by the fact that he reprinted the story that Queen Isabella II of Spain gave Violinist Pablo de Sarasate a Stradivarius when he was ten (actually, as Slonimsky later learned, Sarasate bought the Strad himself when he was 22). And Slonimsky's new dictionary contains another error of which he is still unaware: Rumanian Pianist Dinu Lipatti died of what his doctor called lympho-granulomatosis (Hodgkin's disease...
Fabiani still occasionally plays his Stradivarius, moves with ease through his two worlds. On the night of the Tebaldi recital, after presenting the singer with masses of long-stemmed roses, he drove to a local precinct to bail out two fans of Dropkick Rocca who had been jailed for assaulting the referee...
...police laboratory, his bureau examined hundreds of violins brought to it by worried buyers. Most of the instruments had telltale modern coats of lacquer or labels with inks and paper of recent manufacture. In one violin, the police lab even found particles of nylon. A concertmaster brought Iviglia a "Stradivarius" (for which he had paid $13,000) with a label reading "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1703." Underneath, another label was found reading "Pietro Antonio della Costa, Treviso, Anno 1764." Both labels were false. A Swiss collector brought in a 1716 "Stradivarius" for which she had paid...
...Stradivarius Quartet will perform in the last of the Holmes Hall Concert Series tonight. If the weather is pleasant, the concert will be given at 7:30 p.m. in the Holmes Hall loggia following the Choral Society's concert in the Quad...