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bashny.net
The Nippon Foundation auctioned the Stradivarius violin Lady Blunt, made in 1721, in an effort to raise funds for earthquake and tsunami victims. The instrument is valued at about $10 million and is one of two highly preserved Italian master violins, with the other being the Messiah in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum; the auction was planned for June 20 on Tarisio’s website.
southdakotamagazine.com
Maegis blog headline field requested; article discusses the Amati King cello from the National Music Museum loaned to The Met in New York for a summer exhibition.
bachtrack.com
The Bachtrack review covers a performance at Kirche, Lockenhaus, on 9 July 2015 featuring Cristina Barbuti (piano), Alexander Lonquich (piano), Vilde Frang (violin), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Latica Honda-Rosenberg (violin), Christoph Koncz (violin), Eszter Osztrosits (violin), Pablo Hernán Benedí (violin), James Boyd (viola), Lily Francis (viola), Sebastian Klinger (cello). The programme included Killmayer Paradise for two pianos, Dvořák Piano Trio no. 3 in F minor, Op. 65, and Enescu String Octet in C major, Op. 7.
theviolinchannel.com
The Stavanger Symfoniorkester is accepting applications for a Viola Tutti position with applications due by September 1, 2015. For more details, a link to additional information is provided.
seviernewsmessenger.com
The Titanic Museum Attractions in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and Branson, Missouri will exhibit Wallace Hartley’s violin, which sold for over $1.7 million in 2013. The violin is associated with the RMS Titanic and Hartley’s band reportedly played Nearer, My God, To Thee during the sinking.
slippedisc.com
The article discusses Jeremy Constant, concertmaster at Marin Symphony and assistant concertmaster at San Francisco Symphony, and his 1850 J. B. Vuillaume del Gesu violin (numbered 1801) which has historical connections to David McCallum (the actor from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), Sir Neville Marriner, and Beatles sessions including A Day in the Life, Yesterday, and Eleanor Rigby. It recounts attempts to contact David McCallum junior and the eventual correspondence with McCallum senior via his son, including a visit to discuss the violin’s history.