Monthly archive
9 headlines
Source-linked reporting
stamfordadvocate.com
The article discusses La Fenice, a quintet of five instrumentalists: Catherine Cho (violin), Maria Lambros (viola), Marcy Rosen (cello), Peggy Pearson (oboe), and Diane Walsh (piano). It describes a program of five works totaling two hours and ten minutes, including a Mozart trio for clarinet, viola, and piano where an oboe substitutes for the clarinet, and notes the need for new seats in the auditorium.
wunc.org
Barnabas Kelemen, the Hungarian violinist who won the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2002, performs two Paganini Caprices and discusses finding a new violin while nearing the end of his four-year loan of a 1683 Stradivarius.
latimes.com
Lindsay Deutsch, a 20-year-old student at the Colburn School of Performing Arts, is offering a $10,000 reward for the return of a 1742 Sanctus Seraphin violin and an 1830 Francois Tourte bow stolen from her car in West Hills. The instruments were on loan from Los Angeles philanthropist Peter Mandell, and the theft is under LAPD investigation.
fakty.ua
The article reports that American violinist Lindsay Deutsch left her antique violin, a 1742 Santo Serafin valued at at least $850,000, in a car in Los Angeles. A man later turned the instrument into the police after finding it in a park with a dog on a leash. The violin was insured but the policy didn’t cover its value; the owner, a collector named Peter Mandel, was distressed. Police suggest the thief did not realize the instrument’s worth.
latimes.com
The 1742 Sanctus Seraphin violin and an 1830 Francois Tourte bow were stolen from a car in West Hills and later recovered and handed to the Los Angeles Police Department. The instrument was on loan to Lindsay Deutsch from philanthropist Peter Mandell, whose collection is valued at $350,000 for the violin and $160,000 for the bow.
playbill.com
The rare 1742 Sanctus Seraphin violin used by Lindsay Deutsch was recovered after being stolen from her car on April 20. An unidentified man turned in the instrument to police, receiving a $10,000 reward promised by Deutsch’s parents once his account is confirmed.
hvg.hu
The Stradivari violin from 1699 sold for over two million dollars at Christie's in New York, setting a new record. The previous record was 1.8 million dollars in 1990 at a Christie's sale in London. The instrument, known as Lady Tennant, had its first known owner Charles Philippe Lafont, a contemporary of Nicolo Paganini, and later belonged to Sir Charles Tennant who gifted it to his wife. A second instrument, a cello by Matteo Goffriller, also sold for 620 thousand dollars, and both instruments were part of a single auction collection.
dantri.com.vn
The article reports that a Stradivarius violin from 1699 named The Lady Tennant sold for 2,032,000 USD to an anonymous American collector at a New York auction on April 23. It notes this as the highest price ever paid for a violin, compares to a 1990 Stradivarius sale at 1.8 million USD, and mentions maker Antonio Stradivari and a performer Adela Pena of the Eroica trio performing with the violin at the auction.
latimes.com
The Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez discusses Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a street violinist in downtown Los Angeles who has schizophrenia and previously played a two-stringed fiddle. Readers donated instruments, including a cello and a violin, from donors Dede Swartz, Kathy Harmon-Luber, Sara Cannon, Antonio Rizzo, and Alfred Rich, to help Ayers. The instruments were to be kept secure by Lamp Community, with the aim of helping him access basic needs and support services.