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playbill.com
Playbill reports that a collection of instruments stolen from Susie Meszaros and Pal Banda in London was returned weeks later. The items included four cellos, a violin, and a viola, with a Carcassi cello valued at £66,000. Meszaros and Banda are musicians in the Allegri String Quartet and the Chilingirian Quartet, respectively.
telegraph.co.uk
The painting by Claude Monet of the Houses of Parliament is expected to fetch up to £10 million at Christie’s, the most expensive Monet view of London auctioned to date.
www2.oberlin.edu
The article reports on the Oberlin Faculty Chamber Music Series opening concert at Finney Chapel, featuring seven faculty members and one guest. Performers included Nicole Divall (viola) with James Howsmon, Richard Hawkins, Kyung Sun Lee, Peter Rejto, Marilyn McDonald, Darrett Adkins, and Monique Duphil, performing works by Britten, Hindemith, and Ravel.
telegraph.co.uk
Kate Connolly reports from Berlin about the Flick Collection, a modern art collection lent to the Hamburger Bahnhof by Friedrich Christian Flick, a former playboy and heir to a Nazi-era industrialist, amid controversy over alleged blood money financing. The collection includes works by Alberto Giacometti, Bruce Naumann, Gerhard Richter and Kurt Schwitters.
mult-kor.hu
The article discusses Nicola Amati, a renowned Cremona violin maker and the most famous descendant of the Amati family. It notes that his instruments are masterpieces in both construction and sound, and that Guarneri and Stradivari learned the craft from him. It mentions that master violins made after 1660 are still in use today.
latimes.com
Maria V. Altmann’s lawsuit to recover six Klimt paintings seized by the Nazis was not dismissed by U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, who set an October 18 hearing to fix a trial date. The works have been displayed at the Austrian Gallery and include a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Altmann’s late aunt.
mvdaily.com
Frans Helmerson and Pavel Gililov are highlighted in a Kronberg Academy event in Germany. The article mentions cello maker Wolfgang Schnabl attending and discusses cello characteristics and the performers involved, including Helmerson.