Word: stradivariuses
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...Altman did not want to die without sharing his greatest secret. Before succumbing to cancer in 1985, Altman, 69, told his wife, "Look between the violin case and the cover, and you'll find some interesting papers," she recalls. There she found newspaper clippings reporting the theft of a Stradivarius violin made in 1713 from a Polish virtuoso in New York City in 1936. Altman's violin, it turned out, was the missing Stradivarius...
...Japanese-born Midori showed she was that and more at Massachusetts' Tanglewood festival, where she was playing Leonard Bernstein's difficult Serenade with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, directed by the composer himself. When her E string gave out, she calmly appealed to the concertmaster, who handed over his Stradivarius. When the Strad's E string snapped a few moments later, Midori again turned to the concertmaster, by now playing his associate's Guadagnini. He traded again, and she flawlessly finished the piece, earning a tumultuous ovation from the audience and hugs and kisses from Bernstein and her two lenders...
According to an article in last Sunday's "Parade Magazine," a nationally syndicated weekly magazine, Stanford had lured a straight 'A' violinist to Palo Alto by offering the use of a Stradivarius violin in the university's Lang Collection of Historical Musical Instruments...
Kathryn L. Pearson, of Santa Rosa, Ca., told Parade's Lloyd Shearer, author of the magazine's hard-hitting "Intelligence Report," she opted for the campus, whose architecture has served as an inspiration for the builders of Spanishstyle condominiums, when they promised her "the use of a Stradivarius that Stanford has in its collection...
...None of the other universities offered me a Stradivarius to play," she explained...