"The 3Dvarius is based on a Stradivarius model, but it's not a Stradivarius and my objective wasn't to create a 'new Stradivarius,'" writes Bernadac.
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Haimovitz was on Matteo, his student on a loaner Stradivarius .
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"Stradivarius" is heavy on dialogue, character-driven scenes, and implied mystery.
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The instrument was a Stradivarius, made in 1727, and cost $38,000.
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The father had often told the mother that she was his Stradivarius.
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Will it fetch millions of dollars at an auction like a Stradivarius can?
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Their flagship object right now is a Stradivarius violin valued at $9 million.
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Today, the company includes brands like Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear and Stradivarius.
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" He took his 1707 Stradivarius cello out of its case and began playing "Somewhere.
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We are listening to Paganini continue to play his Stradivarius as the strings snapped.
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Would a violinist leave her Stradivarius in a locked trunk on a sweltering day?
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Thankfully, "Stradivarius" quickly moves to address those issues with, yet again, clean and efficient storytelling.
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Stradivarius Some inbred family made a fancy fiddle and we're supposed to give a shit?
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The smell in the next shop, Stradivarius, was overpowering—it filled the whole changing area.
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Known internationally for its history—and rarity—the Stradivarius is the dream instrument of many a player.
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A few hours ago, Mosul Eye listened to violinist Itzhak Perlman play a concerto on his Stradivarius.
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Harry Reid is playing this GOP crack-up like Jascha Heifetz playing a Stradivarius at Carnegie Hall.
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The mother had taken these words to heart and repeated them, He said I was his Stradivarius .
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In 2008, Philippe Quint, a classical violinist, left his Stradivarius in the back of a Newark airport taxi.
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The furbo knows how to jump queues, dodge taxes and play systems of nepotism and patronage like a Stradivarius.
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The 3Dvarius' shape and design is also based on the revered Stradivarius, which can fetch millions of dollars at auction.
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This is second nature to Mr. Trump, who has played his party's base like Yo-Yo Ma on a Stradivarius.
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That requires absolute silence in the cobblestoned area around the auditorium where the sounds of Stradivarius instruments are being recorded.
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Steinway's brands include Bach Stradivarius trumpets, Selmer Paris saxophones, C.G. Conn French horns, Leblanc clarinets, King trombones and Ludwig snare drums.
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At various points, it sold products like fishing tackle, tombstones, barber chairs, wigs and even a "Stradivarius model violin" for $6.10.
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If you take away the romance — 'He plays on a Stradivarius' — you realize you can find your voice on any instrument.
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In the beginning I thought it would be mainly about the theft of my Stradivarius — almost a eulogy for my violin.
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In February 2011, when The Economist ran a story called "Print me a Stradivarius", the idea of printing objects still seemed extraordinary.
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" But Ana Navarro, a Republican who does not support Trump, hit back: "Oh, let me play my old, ancient Stradivarius for you.
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Ortega owns 59% of Inditex, the world's largest clothing retailer that owns Zara, Pull&Bear, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Stradivarius, and other brands.
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On one occasion in the 1960s, for instance, an airline barred Mr. Mann from bringing his Stradivarius aboard as carry-on luggage.
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Ortega owns 59% of Inditex, the world's largest clothing retailer that owns Zara, Pull&Bear, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Stradivarius, and other brands.
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A Stradivarius violin, viola or cello represents the pinnacle of sound engineering, and nobody has been able to replicate their unique tones.
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If people want to keep a Stradivarius at home, theft is a big risk; robbery with violins is a serious crime, after all.
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An 18th-century Stradivarius violin sold for $15.9 million at an online auction that benefited disaster relief following Japan's 2011 tsunami and earthquake.
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After all, how could a responsible media fail to cover unprecedented events, even when it knows that it's being played like a Stradivarius?
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He played on two historically important instruments, the 1711 Stradivarius known as La Mara and a 1739 Montagnana known as the Sleeping Beauty.
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Politics is somehow the fault of Facebook, rather than venal politicians and their ability to manipulate, er, the mass media like a Stradivarius.
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Luckily for the engineers, Cremona's mayor is also the president of the Stradivarius Foundation, the municipal body that owns the Museo del Violino.
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Click here to view original GIFYou no longer have to be a Stradivarius, a Gibson, or even a Steinway to make your own musical instruments.
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Why do the most admired violins in the history of music, made by Stradivarius and Guarneri, come from the middle of the Little Ice Age?
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Neither of them knew or even cared about the numerous studies proving that a Stradivarius does not, in fact, sound better than other, comparable violins.
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"Stradivarius" deals with it in the most inconsequential way possible, having it all play as backstory that people talk about, though Maggie herself is never seen.
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This week, artist Arthur Jafa, the history of the Stradivarius violin, the politics of criticism, Latinx underrepresentation in the US media, an inflatable garden, and more.
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Amancio Ortega is the Spanish billionaire behind Inditex, the world's largest clothing retailer that owns Zara, Pull&Bear, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, and Stradivarius, and other brands.
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You can have whatever opinion you want on that, even as Mr. Trump still continues to play the medium like a virtuoso plays a Stradivarius violin.
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Inditex has nearly 7,500 stores globally, over a quarter of which are fast-fashion leader Zara, with its other brands including Bershka, Stradivarius and Pull & Bear.
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Vuillaume bought and sold many of the best instruments made by the early Italian masters, and his copies of Stradivarius and Guarneri violins are highly sought after.
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And an American violinist left her $2.6 million Stradivarius on a train in western Germany in 2016, retrieving it only moments before the train left the station.
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FALLING MARGINS Inditex has nearly 7,500 stores globally, over a quarter of which are fast-fashion leader Zara, with its other brands including Bershka, Stradivarius and Pull & Bear.
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The South Korean violinist In Mo Yang, 20, a student at the New England Conservatory, is fortunate to have a coveted Stradivarius on loan through an anonymous donor.
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As shadows lengthened in Palmyra after Thursday's concert and dusk cooled the heat of the day, Mr. Roldugin, the cello maestro, said he had left his Stradivarius home.
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In 2011, Tarisio set an auction record—$15.9 million—with the sale of the "Lady Blunt" Stradivarius, which had belonged to Lady Anne Blunt, the granddaughter of Lord Byron.
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When he was in seventh grade, his parents, at the suggestion of his teacher, took him to a violin dealer in Manhattan, who had a Stradivarius but wouldn't let him touch it.
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He told me, "We played the media like a Stradivarius," noting that "if we spent eight million in the referendum, we got thirty-five, forty million in free publicity" by outraging liberal commentators.
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The city is getting behind an ambitious project to digitally record the sounds of the Stradivarius instruments for posterity, as well as others by Amati and Guarneri del Gesù, two other famous Cremona craftsmen.
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Yes, because Eurus's pivotal Christmas present five years ago was not her gorgeous Stradivarius violin, but an unsupervised meeting with James Moriarty during which they plotted the final problem for John Watson and the Holmes brothers.
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BERLIN, Jan 7 (Reuters) - An American violinist who left her $2.6 million 1727 Stradivarius in the luggage rack on a regional train in western Germany was "more than relieved", police said, when officers retrieved it one minute before it left the station.
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The only way to keep caring about any show nine years in is to be deeply invested in its characters, and it really did feel to me in "Stradivarius" that the show was starting to execute a course-correction, and a welcome one.
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It was here, on a mild weekend afternoon recently, that Yo-Yo Ma bounded into a room in a community center, Stradivarius cello in hand, and moved swiftly around a seated circle of adults and children, grinning and giving one long high five.
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We'll be the first to admit that we can't hear the difference between a classic Stradivarius being played, versus something like a Guarneri del Gesù, but Formlab's creation sounds a lot better than we thought it wood, given it's made from mostly just plastic.
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Back in 2006, a retired professor of biochemistry, Joseph Nagyvary, claimed it was the chemicals used to treat the wood in Stradivarius violins that made them so special: a cocktail of honey, egg whites, and gum arabic, along with salts of copper, iron, and chromium.
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It was Thomas Barrack, later chairman of the Trump 2016 inaugural committee, who, as The New York Times put it, "played Donald like a Stradivarius" on behalf of the Westin group and got him to shell out more than 25 times the hotel's expected earnings.
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Though some of the themes maybe be simple shapes or icons, Zara's replications are near-identical, and the massive scale of this theft from a tight-knit creative scene implies a conscious choice by Zara, Bershka, Pull&Bear, Stradivarius and the parent company Inditex to not bother making significant modifications.
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The Coppa allows teams from smaller markets (and smaller budgets) like Sassari and Cremona (more famous for Stradivarius violins than hoops) to pull off March Madness-like upsets against more glamorous squads like Milan, which is sponsored by Giorgio Armani and takes full advantage of the lack of a league salary cap.
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The results are hilarious: Keep track of every mission throughout the Solar System with this handy map (click to enlarge): The story of a stolen Stradivarius violin: "He played that violin every day, and he did all the maintenance himself because I would watch him take it apart and do things to it," he says.
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In fact, Gupta believes that the tokenization of assets — his startup recently announced plans to 'tokenize' a classic Stradivarius violin, worth a cool $9 million, through its 'smart property register' — will enable smaller investors, the type who might have bought into ICOs, to spread their capital more widely without incurring huge amounts of risk.
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They all play Trump like a Stradivarius, writing him "beautiful letters" (Kim) and assuring him that his own intelligence community's conclusions about Khashoggi and about the election are false (MBS and Putin.) By contrast, Trump harangues and insults leaders of Western democracies that are longtime US allies, such as Canada, France, Germany, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
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Last year alone, its recoveries included a painting by Marc Chagall that had been taken from the Manhattan home of an elderly couple nearly 30 years earlier, a Nazi-looted work by artist Auguste Renoir and a pair of "ruby slippers" worth millions worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz." It is not the money, Carpenter stressed, but rather the "intrinsic value" of stolen art and cultural property - anything from baseball cards to a $5 million Stradivarius - that determines whether the FBI will pursue it.
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Yo-Yo Ma played his Stradivarius cello called the Davidov Stradivarius, made in 1712 during Stradivari's "golden period".Music USA Today. Accessed January 23, 2009. Itzhak Perlman played his Stradivarius violin called the Soil Stradivarius, made in 1714 during Stradivari's "golden period".
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The Barjansky Stradivarius played by Julian Lloyd Webber The Barjansky Stradivarius of c.1690 is an antique cello fabricated by the Italian Cremonese luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737).
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A Stradivarius clothing store in the SM Aura Premier mall in Bonifacio Global City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Stradivarius (, Catalan: []) is a women's clothing fashion brand from Spain owned by the Inditex group.
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Stradivarius instruments are at risk of theft. Stolen instruments are often recovered, however, even after being missing for many years. They are difficult to sell illicitly as dealers will typically call the police if approached by a seller with a Stradivarius known to have been stolen. In recent years, the General Kyd Stradivarius was stolen in 2004.
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The Greffuhle Stradivarius violin, on display in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. The Greffuhle Stradivarius is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, around the year 1709. It derives its name from a French nobleman who once owned it. The Greffuhle is one of the eleven Stradivarius instruments that are decorated.
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Until 2009 she used the 1715 Joachim Stradivarius on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation; today she plays the 1729 Recamier Stradivarius on loan from Ryuzo Ueno, Honorary Chairman, Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd.
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Serge Alexandre Barjansky (16 December 1883 - 1946) was a Russian virtuoso cellist. Barjansky’s cello was an outstanding Stradivarius instrument which became known as the Barjansky Stradivarius. This instrument is now played by Julian Lloyd Webber.
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Jan Talich plays violins by J. Gagliana (1780) and A. Stradivarius (1729).
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Italy, Cremona, end of the - 17th - start of the 18th century. The famous violin maker Nicola Amati takes a simple street boy Antonio Stradivari as a student. Stradivarius is a diligent student and some time later Antonio becomes superior to his old teacher when he creates an incomparable varnish which allows to make unique-sounding musical instruments. Stradivarius leaves Amati, marries, one after the other four sons are born, but nobody buys Stradivarius' instruments, Amati is for the most famous violin maker in Europe, and simply no one knows of Stradivarius.
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The Lipinski Stradivarius, from a 1923 magazine The Lipinski Stradivarius is an antique violin constructed in 1715 by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, during Stradivari's "golden period" between 1700 and 1720. There are fewer than 650 extant Stradivarius violins in the world today, and the Lipinski is considered to be a particularly fine example. In 2012, it was appraised at US$5 million.
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Gustav Bloch-Bauer had been loaned the famous "Gore Booth Baron Rothschild" Stradivarius cello (see List of Stradivarius instruments) by the Rothschild family, which was looted by the Nazis in 1938 and retained by the German authorities till 1956.
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Podger plays a violin made in Genoa in 1739 by Pesarinius, a later student of Antonio Stradivari. She initially played a Stradivarius copy from 1988 by Rowland Ross, and has recorded Haydn and Mozart on the 1699 Crespi Stradivarius.
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The Duport Stradivarius being played by Mstislav Rostropovich in 1978. The Duport Stradivarius is a cello made in 1711 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The instrument is named after Jean-Louis Duport, who played it around 1800.
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In 2017 he hosted his own show 'De Nieuwe Stradivarius' for NPO 2.
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The Artot–Alard Stradivarius of 1728 is an antique violin made by luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1736). This violin is currently on display in the Stradivarius exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona until June 5th, 2016.
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In 1997, upon winning the Canada Council Stradivarius Prize, St. John was given the two-year use of a Lyall Stradivarius built in 1702. In 1999, an anonymous donor made a permanent loan to St. John of the 1779 "Salabue" Guadagnini.
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The Rawlins Stradivarius guitar (1700), part of the Stradivarius collection at the National Music Museum, Vermillion The Rawlins Stradivarius is an antique guitar crafted by Antonio Stradivari in 1700. It is one of only four surviving guitars made by the Italian luthier. The Rawlins was purchased by the National Music Museum in South Dakota from violinist Louis Krasner in 1985. Krasner had purchased it in 1934 through a dealer in London.
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During this time many of the world's finest instruments passed through his hands, including the Viotti Stradivarius, the Alard Stradivarius, the Tuscan Stradivarius and the Messiah Stradivarius. He witnessed the opening of 'Le Messie' at Hill's workshop in Hanwell after Alfred Hill decided to remove the belly and subsequently ordered the replacement of the bar. He is reputedly one of only three men (along with Alfred Hill and Hill's restorer 'Prunier') to have inspected the inner details since its creation in 1716. Because he spent many years creating instruments for W.E. Hill, C.F Langonet labelled instruments are extremely rare but highly regarded.
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Stradivarius was developed in 1994 as a family owned business with an innovative concept in fashion in Barcelona, Spain. However, Stradivarius joined the Inditex group in 1999 and, currently, the brand is present in 62 countries with 925 stores all over the world.
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As of 2017, Kavakos performs on the "Willemotte" Stradivarius of 1734, which he acquired from London and New York based dealer and expert, Florian Leonhard. Kavakos had been playing the "Abergavenny" Stradivarius of 1724 since February 2010. He sold the "Falmouth" Stradivarius of 1692, and a 1782 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (Torino). Kavakos now owns only the Willemotte and three modern violins, including one by Florian Leonhard (as of September 4, 2010).
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But soon Fortuna finally smiles upon the despairing Stradivarius; his instruments are finally becoming more popular. Antonio becomes rich, he and his family begin to live in luxury, but this does not stop Stradivarius for even a moment. Antonio continues to search for more and more sophisticated ways of processing wood, varnish manufacture, so that his violins sound better and better. But Stradivarius is unhappy because circumstances concerning his family unfold in a woeful way.
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Szabadi usually plays an instrument on loan from the Hungarian state collection - a Lorenzo Storioni violin made in Cremona in 1778. However, in 1995 he appeared in a "Stradivarius Series" in Madrid, playing one of the Stradivarius set housed in the Royal Palace (Palacio Real).
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She currently plays the 1714 Dolphin Stradivarius, which is on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
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Pogostkina has performed with many of the world's major orchestras. At the time of the Sibelius competition she played a modern violin. She played a Stradivarius from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. Since February 2013, she has been playing a Stradivarius Sasserno (1717) from Nippon Music Foundation.
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Other instruments were named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Most of his violins were patterned after Stradivarius, notably the Alard Stradivarius. The tonal quality of Squier's violins was brilliant and clear. Squier taught the art of violin making to Charles Kinney, father of Edward Kinney.
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On 12 November Stradivarius was named Champion Stayer at the Cartier Awards, taking honour for the second time. In the 2019 World's Best Racehorse Rankings Stradivarius was given a rating of 122, making him the nineteenth best horse in the world, and the best over extended distances.
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Baiba Skride previously played the Stradivarius "Wilhelmj" violin (1725), which was on loan to her from the Nippon Music Foundation, and then the "Ex Baron Feilitzsch" Stradivarius violin (1734), which was loaned to her from Gidon Kremer. She now plays the Yfrah Neaman Stradivarius loaned to her by the Neaman family through the Beares International Violin Society.Biography baiba-skride.com, accessed 9 June 2018 Her sisters are Lauma Skride, a pianist, and Linda Skride who plays viola.
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Filomena Moretti has recorded two CDs, for Phoenix and Stradivarius (record label). The release of the complete works for solo guitar by Joaquín Rodrigo on the Stradivarius label Filomena Moretti led to her being featured on the front page of the Italian magazine Classica. In 1998 she received the "Golden Guitar" for her recording of Fernando Sor under the Stradivarius label. She recorded two volumes of J.S. Bach's lute works transcribed for guitar for the Transart UK label.
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This is a list of Stradivarius string instruments made by members of the house of Antonio Stradivari.
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Koelman plays a violin made by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda in 1829 and the "Woolhouse" Stradivarius made in 1720.
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Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American violinist and conductor. He plays the Gibson Stradivarius.
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Solare C. "At home with Beethoven." Stradivarius April 2010;121(1440):22-25. : Academic Search Premier. Accessed July 10, 2014.
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The Baron Knoop Stradivarius of 1698 is an antique violin made by luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1736).
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He owned two Stradivarius cellos: the 1700 Cristiani and another one built in 1719 now known as the Becker.
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Antonio Stradivari, by Edgar Bundy, 1893: a romanticized image of a craftsman- hero Maker's label from Stradivari A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed. The fame of Stradivarius instruments is widespread, appearing in numerous works of fiction.
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The three perpetrators were arrested and sentenced to six and five years respectively. They had committed ten burglaries in May 2007 alone. During the trial, an expert was unable to confirm the authenticity of the Stradivarius. The violin was smaller than a typical Stradivarius, probably a violin from the house of Amati.
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His articles covered a range of topics, such as the October 1994 story of a Stradivarius violin allegedly found on a highway on-rampPearl, Daniel. "Stradivarius Violin, Lost Years Ago, Resurfaces but New Owner Plays Coy". The Wall Street Journal Archive: October 17, 1994. and a June 2000 story about Iranian pop music.
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Published by the author, Larchmont, New York. of 1716 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) of Cremona. The original label of the instrument was "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1716". The Booth Stradivarius has a two-piece back and has a body length of 35.4 cm.
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Prior to the Marie Hall, the Bonjour Stradivarius was the record holder at $393,000, purchased in 1994 by Robert Cohen.
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Rachlin plays the "ex Liebig" Stradivarius violin (which is loaned to him by its owner, the Dkfm. Angelika Prokopp Privatstiftung).
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From 1950 to 1965, Starker played and recorded on the Lord Aylesford Stradivarius, the largest instrument made by Antonio Stradivarius. In 1965 Starker acquired a Matteo Goffriller cello believed to have been made in Venice in 1705; known previously as the "Ivor James Goffriller" cello, Starker renamed it for its certification as "The Star" cello.
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From 2001 to 2015, Zimmermann played a 1711 Stradivarius violin known as the "Lady Inchiquin", previously played by Fritz Kreisler. The violin had been loaned to Zimmermann by Düsseldorf-based bank WestLB AG, but was reclaimed in February 2015 at the termination of the loan contract by the bank's legal successor, Portigon Financial Services, owing to the bank's bankruptcy. In January 2016 Zimmermann was loaned the 1727 "Général Dupont" Stradivarius for an initial period of two years. Also known as the "Grumiaux" Stradivarius, it had been owned by the celebrated Belgian virtuoso Arthur Grumiaux.
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The Molitor Stradivarius is an antique violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona in 1697, the very beginning of the maker's celebrated "Golden" period. It bears the label "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1697" and is branded to the lower rib, "Curtis Phila."The Molitor Stradivarius at cozio.com Thought to have been owned by Napoleon Bonaparte, the violin belonged to 19th-century Parisian socialite and arts patron Juliette Récamier until 1804, when it came into the possession of a general in Napoleon's army, Count Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor.
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The only surviving Stradivarius harp is the arpetta (little harp), owned by San Pietro a Maiella Music Conservatory in Naples, Italy.
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A French-language version Stradivarius produced the same year was also directed by Géza von Bolváry but with a different cast.
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She was also extremely generous."Guarlford History Group - Early Childhood in Guarlford, Worcestershire She died in Cheltenham on 11 November 1956. The 1709 Stradivarius violin which she played for more than 50 years, now known as the "Marie Hall Stradivarius,” was sold at Sotheby's in April 1988 for a record £473,000 to an anonymous South American bidder.
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The Hammer Stradivarius is an antique violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) of Cremona. The back measures 36 cm, bearing the label inside: "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis/Faciebat Anno 1707". Dating from 1707, it was made during Stradivari's 'golden' period. It is named after Christian Hammer a 19th-century Swedish collector who is its first recorded owner.
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While only about 650 original Stradivari instruments (harps, guitars, violas, cellos, violins) survive, thousands of violins have been made in tribute to Stradivari, copying his model and bearing labels that read "Stradivarius" on them. The presence of a Stradivarius label does not confirm that the instrument is a genuine work of Stradivari.Stradivarius Violins – Encyclopedia Smithsonian. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
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The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. It has been described as "one of Falkner's three celebrated novels" and as a "psychic romance".XIX Century Fiction, Part I, A–K (Jarndyce, Bloomsbury, 2019).
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They were also unable to identify which instrument was which, and two of them mistakenly identified the 1976 violin as the Stradivarius.
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Stradivarius Records, Italian Casa Discografica Stradivarius (founded 1988) is a Milan based independent Italian record label specializing in early music and contemporary classical music.Italian websiteIl Fronimo: rivista di chitarra e liuto: Volume 35, Issues 137-140 2007 La Stradivarius è una casa di nicchia, che lavora solo sul prodotto molto raro, una delle poche case discografiche italiane ad avere un'attenzione così rigorosa verso la musica sconosciuta, poco frequentata, particolare... soprattutto ... The record label was originally based from a shop in the Via Stradivari, but the shop is now located in the Via Sormani, Cologno Monzese.Stradivarius è il negozio di Milano che da trent'anni offre un vasta scelta di dischi di musica classica, leggera, rarità, prodotti di nicchia, preziose incisioni importate dall'estero. Stradivarius dispone inoltre di un servizio di prevendita di biglietti per i concerti.
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One of Fisher's most prized possessions was a genuine 1692 Stradivarius violin. He would loan the violin to promising artists for special performances.
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NPR, 2004 Another cello, the Servais Stradivarius, which is also in the Smithsonian's collection, is occasionally added to the Axelrod quartet in concert.
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In the 2018 World's Best Racehorse Rankings Stradivarius was given a rating of 120, making him the 42nd best racehorse in the world.
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The Ex-Marsick Stradivarius of 1715 is a violin named after Belgian violinist and teacher Martin Pierre Marsick (1847-1924), who owned the instrument made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The instrument, valued at approximately $8 million USD, now belongs to the Fulton Collection and is played by James Ehnes. At a pre-concert talk at Colston Hall in Bristol, England, on 28 November 2005, James Ehnes took pains to differentiate the instrument he was playing from that played by David Oistrakh. Ehnes was playing a 1715 Stradivarius formerly owned by Marsick, while Oistrakh played the Marsick Stradivarius of 1705.
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She made her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1968 playing Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor with Zubin Mehta. She regularly performed with such conductors as Barbirolli, Sargent, Sir Adrian Boult, Daniel Barenboim, and Leonard Bernstein. Du Pré primarily played on two Stradivarius cellos, one from 1673 and the Davidov Stradivarius of 1712. Both instruments were gifts from her godmother, Ismena Holland.
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The Lady Blunt is one of the two best-preserved Stradivarius violins in existence. It has survived, like the Messiah Stradivarius of 1716, in near-original condition, since it has resided mostly in the hands of collectors and seen little use. It was built on the PG form, being a mature golden period violin. The violin also retains its original neck.
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It was returned three weeks later by a woman who found it and handed it over to the police. The Sinsheimer/Iselin was stolen in Hanover, Germany in 2008 and recovered in 2009. the Lipinski Stradivarius was stolen in an armed robbery on 27 January 2014 and subsequently recovered. The Ames Stradivarius was stolen in 1981 and recovered in 2015.
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He donated the workshop tools, templates and drawings of Stradivarius to the City of Cremona. He was honoured with a knighthood (Cavaliere) in 1927.
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He plays on the "Milanollo" Stradivarius violin, an instrument played, among others, by Christian Ferras, Giovanni Battista Viotti, and Nicolò Paganini. He resides in Paris.
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Goto plays the 1722 Stradivarius "Jupiter, ex-Goding" violin on loan to him from Nippon Music Foundation since December 2013. Formerly, Midori also played it.
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Although Teresa Milanollo was a pioneer among women violinists, her own musical compositions are now largely forgotten. Three of her violins survive today, a 1728 Stradivarius (the "Milanollo-Dragonetti") played by Paganini and bequeathed to Teresa by Domenico Dragonetti, a c. 1680 Ruggieri small violin (the "Milanollo") the property of her younger sister Maria, auctionied by Tarisio in April 2010, and a 1703 Stradivarius (the "Milanollo-Hembert").
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Her gravestone Du Pré died in London on 19 October 1987 at age 42, and is buried in Golders Green Jewish Cemetery. The Vuitton Foundation purchased her Davidov Stradivarius for just over £1 million, and made it available on loan to Yo-Yo Ma. After being owned by the Norwegian cellist Øyvind Gimse, the 1673 Stradivarius, named by Lynn Harrell the Du Pré Stradivarius in tribute, is now on extended loan to Hungarian cellist István Várdai. Du Pré's 1970 Peresson cello is currently on loan to cellist Kyril Zlotnikov of the Jerusalem Quartet. There is a blue plaque celebrating her memory at her former home, 27 Upper Montagu Street, Marylebone.
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As the youngest recipient ever, she plays a violin from the Stradivari Society which means, she is considered playing on a level that is mature enouch to play a stradivarius violin and lucky her: she has the body size to play on a 4/4 sizes instrument which most 9 year olds don't have. That's necessary to get a stradivarius because there are no 1/2 oder 3/4 sized professional level quality instruments made by stradivarius. All her performances are at charity events; she has never been paid for her appearances and she has never made any commercial recordings. While she concentrates on classical music, she also plays pop.
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Sebastian Bohren Portrait, on the website of Stradivari Quartett He plays a King Sloma (1710) Stradivarius belonging to the Habisreutinger Foundation, and a violin by Michael Rhonheimer.
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"Stradivarius" is the seventh episode of the ninth season of the post- apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on November 18, 2018.
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After his death in 1931, his widow, Alice, loaned Nicholas' Stradivarius violin to 24-year-old Roman Totenberg for his American debut in 1935 when he played his interpretation of Beethoven's Concerto in D Major with the National Symphony Orchestra. Totenberg played Longworth's violin for years -- including a 1936 appearance at the White House for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt -- until he could afford a Stradivarius violin of his own.
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"Stradivarius" received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the episode has an approval rating of 79% with an average score of 6.03 out of 10, based on 16 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Stradivarius" efficiently sets the board for promising developments and provides a welcome spotlight for Daryl Dixon, but some viewers may feel The Walking Dead is sacrificing organic narrative development and stalling for time with contrivances.
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The Messiah on display at the Ashmolean Museum The Messiah - Salabue Stradivarius of 1716 is a violin made by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is considered to be the only Stradivarius in existence in as new state. It is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. The violin, known as the Messiah (Messie in French), remained in Stradivari's workshop until his death in 1737.
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There have been many comparisons of Stradivarius and other old violins with more recent violins since 1817. They generally have found no differences in either subjective impressions or acoustic analysis. However, the tests have been criticized on various grounds. In a well-known 1977 experiment, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and a classical violin dealer, Charles Beare, listened to a Stradivarius, a Guarneri, and a 1976 British violin.
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Yusuke Fukada wrote a book about the early part of her life in Europe which was made into a TV film for TV Asahi in 1985 in which the Japanese violinist Mariko Komuro played the role of the young Suwa. In recognition of her services to German troops and her "superb technique and a brilliant display of art" on the instrument, Goebbels presented her with a violin on February 22, 1943. The gift was meant to be of a Stradivarius, and Goebbels himself noted in his diary that he was "offering the Japanese violinist a Stradivarius violin". In an interview with a Japanese newspaper Suwa also appeared to believe that the violin was a Stradivarius.
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In 1967, Rafael Kubelík allowed her to use the violin of his father, Jan Kubelík the Stradivarius "Emperor ex Gillot" made in 1715. She played this instrument until 2000.
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In either situation, Crabbet-bred Arabian horses have a reputation for athleticism and classic type, good temperament, performance ability and soundness. The Lady Blunt Stradivarius is now considered one of the best-preserved Stradivarius violins in the world. It was sold at auction in Japan in 2011 for a world record high of £9.8 million (US$15.9 million). It has previously sold for £84,500 (US$200,000), also a record at the time, in 1971.
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He later became head of the St Petersburg Conservatory. He had many students, including Aleksandr Verzhbilovich. In 1870 Count Wilhorsky, a patron of the arts, presented Davydov with a Stradivarius cello constructed in 1712. This cello, now known as the Davidov Stradivarius, was owned by Jacqueline du Pré until her death and is currently on loan to cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He intended to write an opera on the subject of Mazeppa.
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In 1956 he twice toured the Soviet Union. Campoli owned two Stradivarius violins, the Baillot- Pommerau of 1694 and the Dragonetti of 1700 (see also List of Stradivarius instruments). However, it was his 1843 Rocca that he used predominantly, the Dragonetti being housed in the bank for security. He considered the phrasing of each passage he played and if he could achieve ‘bel canto’ by shortening or lengthening a note then he would do so.
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From left, Jill, Nina, and Amy Totenberg celebrate the return of their father’s Stradivarius violin in 2015. Roman Totenberg's wife, Melanie (Shroder) Totenberg (1917–1996), was his business manager for 50 years. Roman and Melanie Totenberg were the parents of National Public Radio journalist Nina Totenberg, judge Amy Totenberg, and businesswoman Jill Totenberg. Nina told the story of the theft and belated recovery of her father's Stradivarius in an article for NPR.
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Joseph Nagyvary reveals that he has always held the belief that there are a wide range of chemicals that will improve the violin's sound. In a 2009 study co-authored with Renald Guillemette and Clifford Spiegelman, Nagyvary obtained shavings from a Stradivarius violin and examined them, and analysis indicated they contained "borax, fluorides, chromium and iron salts."Texas A&M; University. "Secrets Of Stradivarius' Unique Violin Sound Revealed, Professor Says" , Science Daily 25 January 2009.
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The Laub–Petschnikoff Stradivarius of 1722 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1737). It is one of only 700 known extant Stradivarius instruments in the world today. It was once owned and played by Ferdinand Laub (1832-1875) and later by Alexander Petschnikoff (1873-1948). In the early 1960s, The Laub-Petschnikof was acquired by Rembert Wurlitzer, a New York City dealer of fine string instruments.
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Common sizes include , , , , , , and less commonly , smaller than a standard violin; These measurements are nominal and approximate. At least one of the surviving Stradivarius violas has a scale length of .
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Simone Zgraggen plays the Stradivarius violin Golden Bell of 1686. She uses bows made by Louis Henri Gillet, Alfred Lamy, Claude Thomassin and a baroque bow built by Carsten G. Löschmann.
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Violinists and others have criticized these tests on various grounds such as that they are not double-blind (in most cases), the judges are often not experts, and the sounds of violins are hard to evaluate objectively and reproducibly. In a test in 2009, the British violinist Matthew Trusler played his 1711 Stradivarius, said to be worth two million U.S. dollars, and four modern violins made by the Swiss violin-maker . One of Rhonheimer's violins, made with wood that the Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) researcher Francis Schwarze had treated with fungi, received 90 of the 180 votes for the best tone, while the Stradivarius came second with 39 votes. The majority (113) of the listeners misidentified the winning violin as the Stradivarius.
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Hagan was accompanied by Australian golfer Joe Kirkwood; Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan also left for Hawaii on the same sailing. Aloha Tower at Honolulu Harbor welcomed the City of Honolulu and her passengers on their arrival in Hawaii. City of Honolulu also carried notable visitors to the mainland. Farris M. Brown, a dealer in Stradivarius instruments, arrived in Los Angeles in May 1928 with three of the famous maker's violins, including the Baron Knoop Stradivarius.
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Santa counters Nero's boasting by expounding on the sentimental joys and wonders of Christmas, of which Nero knows nothing. This touches Nero's heart and causes him to repent of his evil purpose and ask how he can help Santa. Santa then showers Nero with hospitality, and runs to get a present for him: a Stradivarius violin. Santa also gives him a piece of sheet music, and the play closes with Nero playing The First Noel on the Stradivarius.
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Instrument He owned two Stradivarius cellos, the "Batta" and the "Baudiot". From 1939 to 1951 Piatigorsky also owned the famous modern Italian Montagnana cello (by Jago Peternella) known as the "Sleeping Beauty".
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Live-Mitschnitt der Uraufführung im Rahmen des Carinthischen Sommers in Villach. Carinthischer Sommer (CD 1111) 1994: Hans Sachs und seine Zeit. Clemencic Consort. Stradivarius dischi, Milano (Neuauflage 2010) 1997: Meilensteine der Volksmusik.
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In the late-17th century, Cremona-based luthier Antonio Stradivari developed the classical violin, then called the Stradivarius after his name, and in 1700, Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano in Florence, Tuscany.
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With jockey Frankie Dettori on board, on 18 June 2020, Stradivarius won his third Ascot Gold Cup (by 10 lengths) and on 28 July 2020, he won his record fourth Goodwood Cup.
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Kim is one of 5 artists invited for the inaugural Valade Concertmaster program at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. Kim plays the 1701 ex-Dushkin Stradivarius, on permanent loan from a donor.
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The Anvil again acted as a pacemaker for the O'Brien team and opened up a long lead with Capri settled in fourth. Capri moved up on the outside to take the lead early in the straight from Stradivarius who raced on the inside rail. In a closely contested finish Capri ran on well and won by half a length and a short head from Crystal Ocean and Stradivarius. He became the first Irish Derby winner to take the race since Nijinsky in 1970.
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Itzhak Perlman bought the 1714 Soil Stradivari from Yehudi Menuhin for £600,000 in 1986.2007 article Since then the Barjansky Stradivarius has been played by Lloyd Webber, who has made more than 30 award- winning recordings on the instrument, including a renowned version of Elgar Cello Concerto, conducted by Yehudi Menuhin. Chapter Eight of Margaret Campbell's biography of Lloyd Webber, Married to Music, is called "The Barjansky" Strad. The Barjansky Stradivarius has reportedly been offered for sale by the violin expert Florian Leonhard.
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At the beginning of his career, Niziol played a contemporary violin. When recording his debut solo CD for DUX (Polish label), he played a Giovanni Paolo Maggini violin (1996). From 1997 to 2003 Niziol played the Stradivarius “Wieniawski” from 1719 (which belonged itself to the 19th century Polish virtuoso and composer Henryk Wieniawski). Since 2003 he has performed on the Guarneri del Gesù from 1727 and since 2007 he also has played the Stradivarius “Aurea” (which means "Golden") from 1715.
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In 1998, she was appointed professor of violin didactics in the pedagogy department. She is artistic director of the Violin Vatelot-Rampal competition. She's playing on a Stradivarius that once belonged to Christian Ferras.
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Mullova plays the Jules Falk Stradivarius from 1723 and a violin made in 1750 by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. Her bows include a Baroque style bow by a modern maker, a Dodd and a Voirin.
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Another sister, Jill Totenberg, is a businesswoman married to Brian Foreman. On August 6, 2015, the Ames Stradivarius, which had been stolen from their father 35 years earlier, was returned to the three sisters.
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The Hellier Stradivarius of circa 1679 is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy. It derives its name from the Hellier family, who might well have bought it directly from the luthier himself.
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He stood down from the post in 2008 for health reasons. Schiff played the "Mara" Stradivarius (1711) and "Sleeping Beauty" made by Montagnana in Venice in 1739.Griffiths, Bill, Northern Sinfonia. Northumbria University Press, p.
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He started to play the fiddle at the age of 9. His father bought him a copy of a 1713 Stradivarius violin. He then started to play with his brothers Murphy and Valsin.Yule, p. 82.
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Besides her international concert career as a soloist, playing with the world's leading conductors and orchestras, she also plays chamber music partnering her siblings as the Chung Trio. Her cello is the 1731 "Braga" Stradivarius.
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The two violinists were allowed to play all the instruments first. None of the listeners identified more than two of the four instruments. Two of the listeners identified the 20th-century violin as the Stradivarius.
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In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are separated by the First World War, and he is badly wounded.
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Dietmar Machold was given the title of honorary professor for a collection of historic violins he procured for the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. In June 2011 one anonymous buyer paid $15.9 million for the Lady Blunt Stradivarius.
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The Davidov Stradivarius (also: Davidoff or Davydov; ), is an antique cello made in 1712 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy. It is very similar in construction and form to the equally famed Duport Stradivarius, built a year earlier and played by Mstislav Rostropovich until his death in 2007. The varnish is of a rich orange-red hue, produced with oil color glazes. Its owners have included Carl Davidoff and Jacqueline du Pré, and it is currently used by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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Ohkubo supports financing and various arrangements that have encouraged past Forval employees and business partners to create their own successful companies, some of which have since gone public. He also works with the Forval Foundation, which sponsors the "Stradivarius Scholarship" to grant the winner of a violinist competition the free use of the foundation's Stradivarius violin for 2 years. He is a leadership committee member of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, vice-committee chairman of Advancement of New Industry, and vice-chairman of the New Business Convention.
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It is not known whether the Le Brun Stradivarius was among these eleven violins designated for dissociation from Paganini's name. The sales ledgers of one of the most prominent violin shops in Paris in the 19th century indicate "de Boutillier" as another owner of this violin. This could be the same person identified elsewhere in the business records as "Madame la Comtesse Boutillier" who also owned another unknown 1680 Stradivarius violin in Paris in 1878. No further information has yet been found about this owner.
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He has recorded Niccolò Castiglioni (Col Legno) and Alberto Ginastera's complete piano works (Phoenix Classics). He has released a collection of solo and two piano works by American composer Michael Glenn Williams on the Stradivarius label.
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Tenants in Lippo Mall Puri are: Parkson Department Store, Sogo Department Store, Matahari Department Store, Cinema XXI, Element Family Fun, Zara, Marks & Spencer, H & M, Stradivarius, Adelle Jewellery, Victoria Secret, Uniqlo, Starbucks, J.CO Donuts, and others.
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Olga Kholodnaya playing the Willemotte Stradivarius (1734) in Cremona, September 2015. Olga Kholodnaya (Russian: Ольга Холодная) is a Russian violinist, composer, arranger and producer, born in Cheboksary, in the Soviet Union and based in Berlin, Germany.
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Portrait of Johann Christoph Lauterbach The Lauterbach Stradivarius of 1719 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier, Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1737). The instrument derives its name from previous owner, German virtuoso, Johann Christoph Lauterbach.
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David Grimal plays the Ex Roederer, Stradivarius (1710) lent by Fazenda Ipiranga, Mguaranesia / MG, Brasil. He was awarded the European Culture Prize at Wiener Musikverein in 1996. France made him Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 2008.
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See List of Stradivarius instruments for details and provenance. Currently, she performs on a cello made by Carlo Tononi in Venice c. 1730. Since 1986 she has taught a master class at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
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"Stradivarius" received a total viewership of 4.79 million with a 1.8 rating in adults aged 18–49. It was the highest-rated cable program of the night, however, the episode dropped in viewership from the previous week.
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L1 of the mall The mall mainly features some fast fashion brands, including H&M;, Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Stradivarius, Zara Home, Uniqlo, etc. Restaurants are located on B1 level and the L3 and L4 levels.
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Shaham has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, among them the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. Shaham plays a Stradivarius violin from the "long pattern" period, the "Comtesse de Polignac" of 1699. It was offered to Shaham on loan, in 1989, by the Stradivarius Society of Chicago.
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The international career of Pablo Ferrández includes concerts held in the United States, Switzerland, Finland and Germany. He has performed at international festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Casals Festival, Festival Spivakov, Festival Internacional de Santander, Kronberg Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Festival Piatgorsky and Sommets Misicaux de Gstaad, among others. Recently, he has become the first Spanish cellist to be loaned a Stradivarius from the Nippon Music Foundation. The Stradivarius he plays is called Lord Aylesford and is one of the oldest in the world, dating from 1696.
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The Oberlin Betts violin, a replica of the Betts Stradivarius The Betts Stradivarius is an antique violin made in 1704 by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is one of around 650 known extant Stradivari instruments. It has been owned by the French violin maker Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and London instrument dealers W.E. Hill & Sons. The instrument is currently in the collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., among the four other Stradivaris in the Cremonese Collection donated by Gertrude Clarke Whittall in 1935.
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Yo-Yo Ma accidentally left this cello in a taxicab in New York City in 1999, but it was quickly returned undamaged. That same year, when Petunia's neck was damaged during X-ray baggage inspection, he borrowed the Pawle Stradivarius cello from the Chimei Museum for a concert in Taiwan. The damage was repaired in time, but Ma played both Petunia and Pawle during the concert nonetheless. Another of Ma's cellos, the Davidov Stradivarius, was previously owned by Jacqueline du Pré, who passed it to him upon her death.
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During his career, he advised Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Grumiaux, Isaac Stern, Anne-Sophie Mutter, cellists such as Maurice Gendron and Yo-Yo Ma, as well as Mstislav Rostropovich, whom he has known since the 1960s. He advised him to buy the Duport Stradivarius cello which he had appraised. He convinced Yehudi Menuhin to resell his Soil Stradivarius, which he deemed unsuitable for his playing, to Itzhak Perlman. In 1973, he acquired a quartet of stringed instruments made in the same wood by luthier Jean- Baptiste Vuillaume and nicknamed "les Évangélistes".
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Controversy has stemmed from the possibility that she was indeed presented with a genuine Stradivarius. It is alleged that it could have been one of many violins stolen or confiscated from Jews during the war. Stradivarius violins belonging to the Viennese art collector Oskar Bondy and the Jewish stepdaughter of Johann Strauss II are missing, and Goebbels and his ministry were known to be concerned with buying quality violins for German musicians. Military records, too, confirm that a 1765 Guadagnini was found on a German violinist who said it was a loan from Goebbels.
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The Du Pré Stradivarius is an antique cello fabricated in 1673 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1737). It has also been known generically as the 1673 Stradivarius, as it is the only cello made by Stradivari in that year. Recent owners of The 1673 have included the cellists Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987), Lynn Harrell and Nina Kotova. Harrell purchased the cello from the ailing du Pré in 1984, and has since taken legal steps to have the cello renamed the Jacqueline du Pré Stradivari.
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Furthermore, he is the Chairman of the board for the Anders Sveaas Almennyttige Fond, a Norwegian charitable foundation founded in 1990, which owns several antique string instruments, among which are two Stradivarius Violins and one Stradivarius Cello. Its focus is to support organisations without relevant public funding, and young promising classical musicians through scholarships and instrument loans. Sveaas is a member of Dean's Council, Executive Committee at Harvard Kennedy School. Sveaas is also a founding member of the Metropolitan Museum International Council in New York and member of Tate International Council in London.
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The Servais Stradivarius is preserved in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History The Servais Stradivarius is an antique cello crafted in 1701 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644–1737). One of only sixty-three extant cellos attributed to Stradivari, it was crafted from exceptional wood reserved by the luthier for large instruments. Its varnish has been described as "unusually rich" and the color a reddish-orange with golden transparency. The cello takes its name from the nineteenth-century Belgian cellist, Adrien Francois Servais (1807–1866), who played this cello.
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In addition to her work as a classical artist, she has worked in popular music with American artists of different genres, including Sheila E. and the Gipsy Kings. She has also appeared as an actress in a Japanese television series. In honor of her artistry, Kawai has been loaned the use of the University's 1715 Stradivarius violin. (The 1715 Stradivarius is known as one of the greatest works of Antonio Stradivari's "golden period".) She has also played a Francesco Ruggieri violin which was also loaned by Osaka University.
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Dindo,piano) for the magazine Amadeus, the first recording of the complete works with piano by Thuille for Naxos (G. Luisi, piano) and the first recording of Sciarrino "Stagioni Artificiali" for vl. and ensemble(M.Angius,conductor) with Stradivarius.
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1671) and violin (1719), violin by Antonio and Girolamo Amati (1629) and a Hieronymus Amati violin (1719). In 2005 the Academy acquired the famous "Viotti ex-Bruce" violin, made by Stradivarius in 1709, on behalf of the nation.
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Very little more is known about her. In 1818 a Stradivarius cello was bought by Mr Alan Dowell, the "son of Ms Catherine Plunkett". This "Irish" cello turned up in London and is now owned by Carlos Prieto.
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Like the decorated Stradivarius violins in the Spanish Royal Collection, the instrument has a label with a date of 1709.Eugene Lener. The World's Most Famous Violin: How It Came into My Possession. Story of 'La Greffuhle' Stradivari.
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Mørk holds a Professorship at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo. He performs on a rare Domenico Montagnana cello (Venice, 1723), whose scroll was made by Stradivarius. Norway's SR-Bank purchased the cello, which is on loan to him.
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Since then she has appeared as a soloist with many international orchestras. She has played the La Cathedrale violin, a Stradivarius (previously played by Nigel Kennedy) that was loaned to her when she was selected as a Mandell artist.
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Jennifer Frautschi () is an American classical violinist, currently Artist-in- Residence at Stony Brook University. She plays an Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the "ex-Cadiz," dated to 1722 which a private American foundation gave to her on loan.
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Archive programmes of Verona Filarmonica, September 2002 . De Bavier conducted a performance of Mozart's serenade the 'Gran Partita' (K 361) at Villa Arvedi in Cuzzaro, Grezzana, with a company of distinguished international instrumentalists, issued in 1999.Stradivarius label CD.
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In the 1950s Jacobsen served as concertmaster in the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Alfred Wallenstein. He played the Red Diamond Stradivarius violin (see the story about its loss and restoration at ). He died on 19 March 1972 in Los Angeles, California.
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A patron of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, in the early 1960s, when the orchestra was preparing to move to new facilities at Place des Arts, McConnell purchased the 1722 Laub–Petschnikoff Stradivarius violin for use by concertmaster and violinist Calvin Sieb.
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Charles D. Ellis, The Partnership, Penguin Press, 2008, p.15 He also purchased a Stradivarius for Yehudi Menuhin. With six other New Yorkers, Goldman endowed a US$150,000 chair in German Art and Culture at his alma mater, Harvard University.
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Perlman plays the Soil Stradivarius violin of 1714, formerly owned by Yehudi Menuhin and considered one of the finest violins made during Stradivari's "golden period." Perlman also plays the Guarneri del Gesù 1743 'Sauret' and the Carlo Bergonzi 1740 'ex-Kreisler'.
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The Canadian release date was also 7/28/09, through EMI. Mexico followed in early August. Since 1999, Korcia has been playing on the Zahn Stradivarius (1719), a violin on loan by the French group LVMH, Moët-Hennessy-Louis Vuitton.
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She has also worn Givenchy. She used to wear John Galliano of Dior, but severed ties after an "anti-Semitic outburst". She currently wears dresses by Nicholas Oakwell. Mutter prefers red, orange and green colors because they match her Stradivarius violin.
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As the years go by, one day on the street Stradivarius hears the sound of Guarneri's violin. Tears appear in the old master's eyes as he realizes that someone has created a violin that sounds better than his musical instruments...
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Jeff Dunham referred to his McElroy figure Skinny Duggan as "the Stradivarius of dummies."Dunham, Jeff (2010). Jeff Dunham: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me. New American Library. p. 107. The Juro Novelty Company also manufactured dummies.
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Concertgebouw Amsterdam, March 2021 The soloists he is going to collaborate with in this season include Kristian Bezuidenhout, Khatia Buniatishvili and Sabine Meyer. Christoph Koncz performs on the "Brüstlein" Stradivarius of 1707 on generous loan by the National Bank of Austria.
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Wallace invented a mechanized petrol powered piano called the pianomatic to play the tune, but the invention backfired on itself and the piano, along with his concerto, was destroyed. Gromit ended up saving the night by composing his own musical piece, "A Double Concerto for Violin and Dog", which he played on a priceless Stradivarius violin found below the concert hall over the monitor with English classical violinist Tasmin Little. In the end, Wallace congratulates Gromit for a job well done, gives him a bouquet of flowers from a mechanized flower dispenser, and sits down on the Stradivarius violin.
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The Tom Taylor Stradivarius is an antique violin made by renowned luthier Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy, circa 1732. Its namesake is British art critic Tom Taylor. Taylor was married to its onetime owner, violinist and composer Laura Wilson Taylor née Barker (1819–1905), who had been presented with the instrument by General Thomas Perronet Thompson during her youth. It is best known for its use in the recording and appearance in the Canadian film The Red Violin (though the film actually tells the tale of the "Red Mendelssohn" Stradivarius, which has been owned by American violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn since 1990).
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Jean-Yves Clément on lisztomanias.fr In 2005, he received an award from the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation. Henri Demarquette plays "le Vaslin", cello manufactured by Stradivarius in 1725, lent by LVMH/ Moët Henessy. Louis Vuitton with a Persois bow dated 1820.
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She owned the 1732 'Tom Taylor' Stradivarius from 1938 to 1954, which was sold to a benefactor who loaned it to Cal State Northridge; the violin was later owned briefly by Joshua Bell. She also used a 1733 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù violin.
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As a girl, Butler studied violin with the Boston Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster, Bernard Listerman and with Abbie Shepardson-Mauck. From Listerman she obtained her first good violin, an instrument of the same era as Stradivarius violins. She also became an accomplished cornet player.
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The 1721 Lady Blunt The Lady Blunt is a Stradivarius violin made in 1721 by the renowned Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari. It is named after one of its first known owners, Lady Anne Blunt, the British co-founder of the Crabbet Arabian Stud.
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Established in 2000, Dubai Holding Group is a multinational retail organization in the Middle East, representing fashion franchises. The Group represents prominent brands such as Zara, Zara Home, Stradivarius (Inditex), women’secret, Gerard Darel, Flamant (company), Promod, Harrys of London, Sfera & Delvaux (company).
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Ingres Paganini, known chiefly as a violinist, had acquired a Stradivarius viola, which he wanted to play in public if he could find the right music. Greatly impressed by the Symphonie fantastique, he asked Berlioz to write him a suitable piece.Berlioz, p.
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Hetrick, Adam. "Clifford Odets' 'Golden Boy', Starring Seth Numrich, Tony Shalhoub, Danny Burstein, to Play the Belasco" playbill.com, August 8, 2012Isherwood, Charles "The Sweet Science vs. the Stradivarius: Review of ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher", New York Times, published December 6, 2012.
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Philip S. Johnson (January 27, 1953 – November 11, 2011) was an American violinist. A promising talent in his youth, his career did not take off and he is mainly noted for having stolen the Ames Stradivarius, a valuable antique violin, in 1980.
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In 1995, Inditex purchased the remaining Massimo Dutti shares and began expanding the brand to include a women's line. In 1998, Inditex launched the Bershka brand that was aimed at urban hip fashion. The company bought Stradivarius in 1999, a youthful female fashion brand.
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He played for many years on the "MacDonald" Stradivarius of 1701 as well as owning fine examples by Testore and Bergonzi. Schidlof died in 1987 in Cumbria, England. His ashes and those of his wife are interred in the gardens of Golders Green Crematorium, London.
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Her recordings number a total of 17 discs, for labels such as Dial, BIS, RTVE, Ensayo, Fundación Author, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and Stradivarius. Her CD of lieder from Brazil, Modinha, with was a finalist in the Grammy Awards and her DVD Madrileña Bonita went gold.
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"Recipe for Success," The Strad vol. 120, no. 1429 (May, 2009): 34-38. In 1999, Pollens challenged the authenticity of the world's most famous violin, the Ashmolean Museum's Messiah Stradivarius, in a series of articles published in the Journal of the Violin Society of America.
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Alberto Lysy Alberto Lysy (February 11, 1935 – December 30, 2009) was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor The violin gifted to him was a very old Stradivarius. Among his friends were Charlie Chaplin and family whose Swiss home M. Lysy visited for extended stays.
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In 1961 Selmer acquired the brasswind manufacturer Vincent Bach Corporation. Selmer moved production from Bach's Mount Vernon, New York facility to Elkhart in 1965 while retaining the premium line Bach Stradivarius. The services of Mr. Vincent Bach were retained for design of student-line brasswinds.
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She owns two Stradivarius violins: The Emiliani of 1703, and the Lord Dunn-Raven Stradivarius of 1710. continued on page A5 She also owns a Finnigan-Klaembt dated 1999 and a Regazzi dated 2005. Discussing her Stradivariuses, Mutter has said: > A Stradivari is always special as a piece of sublime craftsmanship, but what > sets these instruments apart is their capacity to carry even the softest of > pianissimos to the very last row of any hall. I particularly love the > unlimited scope of colours my violin is able to show, as well as the tiger- > like roaring G-string … It is the best instrument I could have, with its own > personality.
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His beloved wife dies, eldest son becomes a merchant-slaver, middle son - a Jesuit monk, and two younger sons do not have either the talent nor the desire to learn the violin business. Soon Stradivarius is offered with a unique chance to pass on his knowledge and skill onto worthy hands as to him comes a young man named Giuseppe Guarneri and asks the great master to take him as a disciple. Alas, Stradivarius refuses future genius, and Guarneri is forced to literally sell himself into slavery to the Jesuits. For food and accommodation Giuseppe is obliged for 15 years to give all the musical instruments he made.
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The musical collection is most closely associated with Sir Samuel Hellier, but the most valuable item within it preceded him, and those who came after him maintained or added to the printed works and instruments. The Hellier Stradivarius of circa 1679 is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy. Cozio, an instrument authentication business, states that it was in the possession of Sir Edward Hellier in 1734,Cozio page on Hellier Stradivarius so it is possible that the Englishman bought it directly from the elderly luthier himself, perhaps during a grand tour. It was kept by the family for almost two hundred years.
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Dettori settled the favourite in mid-division as Nayef Road set the pace and then made steady progress on the outside as the field entered the straight. Stradivarius took the lead approaching the final furlong and drew right away from his opponents in the closing stages to win by ten lengths. On 28 July, despite giving substantial weight (15 lbs) to the younger horse Santiago and getting boxed in before the final run to victory, Stradivarius won a record fourth Goodwood Cup by one length. His next start was the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe where he came seventh in the eleven horse field.
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Old Holk also ensures that his son and fiancée can now get together again, officially appear as a couple and finally get married. While Elisabeth can finally introduce her fiancé to her mother, the sounds coaxed from the Stradivarius by Fritz Molander ring out the open window.
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The 1697 Molitor Stradivarius, rumored to have once been owned by Napoleon Bonaparte, belonged to Molitor beginning in 1804.Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644–1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972. It was sold by Tarisio Auctions in October 2010 for a world record $3.6M.
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Nicola Lazzari is a contemporary violin maker. He lives in Cremona, Italy currently and has won copious international competitions for his workmanship. His work is clean with a rather Stradivarius-like shape. Varnish shows off a deep, rich reddish color with little visible signs of toolmarks.
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Prorail and NS paid compensation to victims. Dozens of passengers attempted to make fraudulent claims: one person tried to claim for a Stradivarius violin, while another claimed to have missed an important modelling competition because of the accident. The most frequently claimed loss was an iPad.
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He has attended masterclasses with Ivry Gitlis, Ani Schnarch, Schmuel Ashkenasi Vadim Gluzman, Chaim Taub, Petru Munteanu in Keshet Eilon, Israel and in Salzburg. Ziyu He plays the "Schneiderhan" Stradivarius violin from 1715 which is on a 1-year loan to him by Beare's International Violin Society.
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Joubran performed musical interludes at readings of Mahmoud Darwish's poetry. Then, in 2003 with the album "Tamaas", Joubran's international career takes off. In 2005, Wissam became a Master string instruments maker. He was recognized as the first Arab luthier to have graduated from Antonio Stradivarius Institute.
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He was also a member of the Meiningen Court Orchestra and the Copenhagen Philharmonic. In 1902 he purchased a 1712 Stradivarius violin, which became his constant companion and instrument of choice.The Lyceumite and Talent, (Chicago: The International Lyceum Association of America, March 1910) pp. 54 -56.
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He has recorded in USA for Bridge Records (2009) and DarkPress. In Italy for Stradivarius, in Spain for iTinerant and in Mexico for Quindecim, FECA of Veracruz, "Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte" and UAM, BMG Entertainment, Urtext Classics, Global Entertainment, Euram and Spartacus Classics.
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One of the most famous and certainly the most pristine is the Messiah Stradivarius (also known as the 'Salabue') made by Antonio Stradivari in 1716 and very little played, perhaps almost never and in an as new state. It is now located in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford.
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Pierre Amoyal (1992), in the Conservatory of Lausanne. Dedicated Pierre Amoyal 1976 photo to Southern Africa tour organiser Hans Adler. Pierre Amoyal (born 22 June 1949 in Paris) is a French violinist and is the artistic director of the Conservatory of Lausanne. He owns the "Kochanski" Stradivarius of 1717.
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The Brescian model is larger, with distinctive F-holes. The Macdonald Stradivarius model is easier to play, smaller around the bouts. Smith's later instruments exhibit very individual and personal craftsmanship. Chisel marks which can seem crude to the untrained eye are greatly valued by other makers and collectors.
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Mell, Albert, "Henri Temianka: A Long and Illustrious Musical Career," Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XI no. 1, August 1991. The Stradivarius he played during the years of the Paganini Quartet was the "Conte Cozio di Salabue" of 1727, which was Paganini's own concert violin.
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At his side was the fiddle he had purchased fifty years earlier. His belongings were taken to the Clinton Street Police Station. Lt. Jeremiah Daly, who knew Sherman and had liked to hear him play, picked up the violin. The inscription on the inside read: 'Antonius Stradivarius, Cremonenfas . . . .
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Official Program, PPP Memorial Concert Heifetz told of his experience of playing a particular piece on his beloved Stradivarius violin at a concert in the Washington D.C. area, then repeating the piece on his Prier violin, to demonstrate to the audience the near equivalence of the two instruments.
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Domestic audio recordings of the otherwise missing episodes "The Lost Stradivarius", "The Body Snatcher", "The Tractate Middoth", "Lost Hearts", "The Canterville Ghost" and "Room 13" also exist. Network has released all eight remaining episodes on a four disc DVD set along with the surviving clips of 'Casting the Runes'.
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Johnson's former wife discovered the Stradivarius in his belongings and attempted to sell it in 2015, not knowing the violin's origin and value. After a dealer identified it and contacted the FBI, the violin was returned to Totenberg's heirs in August 2015. Musicians he influenced include James Rhodes (pianist).
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The Royal Collections Museum The heritage agency Patrimonio Nacional looks after a number of royal sites in Spain and the art works in them. A new museum in Madrid, the Royal Collections Museum, has been built in the 21st century on a site near the Palacio Real and the Royal Armoury in order to display material from the royal collections which is in the care of Patrimonio Nacional. The Palacio Real contains numerous artworks including frescoes by Tiepolo and a unique set of Stradivarius instruments known as the Stradivarius Palatinos. Once the new museum is open, the three buildings will be complementary in a way arguably comparable to the triangle of art of the Paseo del Prado.
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Antoine Stradivarius: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre (1644-1737), W. Henry Hill et al, Wm. E. Hill et Fils, London, 1908. It was later played by Martin Beaver, first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet, which played since 1995 on the same quartet of Stradivarius instruments once owned by Paganini, until the Tokyo String Quartet retired in July 2013. These remarkable instruments—the viola had inspired Paganini to commission Hector Berlioz's Harold en Italie—were also played by the Cleveland Quartet for almost 15 years, beginning in 1982, and are presently owned by Nippon Music Foundation of Japan, after deacquisition by the Corcoran Gallery in the mid-1990s for $15 million.Faber, Stradivari's Genius, Random House, New York, 2004.
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Stradivarius ended his season in the Group 2 British Champions Long Distance Cup at Ascot on 20 October although Gosden had considered withdrawing him on account of the soft ground. He started favourite again, with the best-fancied of his five rivals being the Aidan O'Brien-trained three-year-olds Flag of Honour (winner of the Irish St Leger) and Sir Erec. Approaching the final turn he was boxed in on the rail and looked unlikely to get a clear run but Dettori found a gap on the inside and sent him to the front two furlongs out. Stradivarius stayed on well and won by one and a half lengths from the Doncaster Cup winner Thomas Hobson.
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He was a fine violinist and violist. From 1900 he performed on the Stradivarius previously played by Vieuxtemps (1820–1881). Berta later inherited this instrument. Berta Geissmar studied Philosophy at Heidelberg University up to Ph.D. level, but her thesis was rejected by Rickert, the Dean of Philosophy, for being "too independent".
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They overcame the security at the International Trade Conference in Calgary, Canada, namely Infinity, Inc. and a contingent of the Global Guardians. They forced the heroes to help in some mayhem. The Fiddler took Obsidian and the Green Flame to London and, with their help, stole a very prized Stradivarius violin.
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Stradivarius is a 1935 drama film directed by Albert Valentin and Géza von Bolváry and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Edwige Feuillère, and Robert Arnoux. It was made by Tobis Film as the French-language version of the film Stradivari. The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler.
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Bae received her Masters of Music degree and then the Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School. Bae has won several awards and competitions, most notably the 2006 Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank National Competition. Her first place award is the three-year loan of the (c.1696) Bonjour Stradivarius Cello.
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By the 17th century, makers such as Antonio Stradivarius had two styles of instrument patterns, with the mandola having strings almost twice as long as the mandolino's. Two styles of mandolas have made it into museums, flat-backed and bowl-backed. Flat-backed mandolas resemble citterns. Bowl-backed mandolas resemble mandores.
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Some trumpet designs, notably Bach Stradivarius trumpets in B♭, lack a water key on the third valve slide. Instead, they have a "dump slide", a small slide inserted into the third slide. When the dump slide is pulled out, any fluid in the third valve slide will come out.
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Sea the Stars has also become an important sire, whose major winners include Stradivarius and Harzand. Her four daughters have all become stakes-producing broodmares as well. The 2018 Epsom Derby winner Masar is inbred to Urban Sea, descending from Galileo on his sire's side and from Melikah on his dam's side.
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Most notably, Erick Friedman performed and recorded on an Antonio Stradivarius made in 1724, in Cremona, Italy, known as the 'Ludwig'. He also performed on two instruments in the 1970's made by Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù' in Cremona, Italy; the 'Lafont-Siskovsky' made in 1733, and the 'Balokovic' circa 1725-1729.
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"Ivan Fedele, né à Lecce (au sud de l'Italie) en 1953, effectue ses études au conservatoire Giuseppe Verdi à Milan, ... L'œuvre d'Ivan Fedele, riche d'une cinquantaine de titres, comprend des compositions de tous les genres, ..." Fedele's compositions are published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, and many of his works are recorded on Stradivarius Records.
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The song "April Skies" was featured in the AMC TV series The Walking Dead in a scene from the episode entitled "Stradivarius". "Jesus", a character on the show, is seen listening to the song on a record player. Pixies have covered Head On, famously including the cover on their Trompe Le Monde album.
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The Servais Stradivarius is currently owned by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. The instrument is famous for its remarkable state of preservation—retaining its original 1701 label—and musical excellence. The Russian Prince Yusupov purchased the cello for Servais ca. 1845, and it was subsequently passed to his son.
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In 1994 she participated in establishing the Quartetto Stradivari. From 1992 bis 2003 she was concertmaster of the I Musici chamber orchestra. She was recently appointed principal guest director of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Sîrbu plays a Stradivarius [violin (model “Conte di Fontana”, 1702), which had been played by Russian violinist David Oistrakh.
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Chen is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory of Music, where she earned a master's degree. As of 2020, she studies at Juilliard under Li Lin and Catherine Cho and at the Kronberg Academy. Chen currently plays the 'Huggins' 1708 Stradivarius violin loaned from the Nippon Music Foundation.
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As of October 2019, he is the recipient of the 1735 "Samazeuilh" Stradivarius loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation. Chen is also known for his online presence. He has created videos on his eponymous YouTube channel pertaining to violin playing, and has collaborated multiple times with the YouTube classical musicians comedy duo TwoSetViolin.
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The Jupiter Stradivarius is a violin constructed in 1700 by luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is one of only 700 extant Stradivari instruments in the world today. The Jupiter was once owned and played by virtuoso violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti. The Jupiter Strad is currently owned and played by Arnold Belnick.
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Juan Ruiz Casaux also played an extremely important role in having returned to Spain a Stradivarius viola made in 1696 as part of a set of five matching ornamented instruments and sold to Charles IV of Spain (known as the Stradivarius Palatinos). The viola and one other of the set were looted by the French at the end of the Peninsular War. The fifth instrument was irretrievably lost, but the viola eventually came into the possession of the firm of W.E. Hill & Sons in London. After years of fruitless discussion, including accompanying King Alfonso XIII of Spain to London in 1925 to personally plead Spain's case, Casaux was finally in 1950 able to persuade Hill to sell the viola back to Spain.
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In fact Storioni had been a student of Carlo Bergonzi, the only true custodian of the secrets of Stradivarius. We must say that Leandro Bisiach honoured his significant inheritance, which in actuality was not only symbolic. By one of those tricks of fortune that make one suspect the hand of destiny, Leandro senior had come into possession of tools and models that had belonged to the various old Cremonese masters. This seems strange enough in itself, a curious coincidence. In reality, he had much greater luck; among the documents and papers obtained by Fanny Rossi, the widow of Giacomo Stradivari (1822-1901), Bisiach found the most precious and extraordinary item imaginable, that is, the formula for the varnish of the great Antonio Stradivarius from 1704.
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He recorded his tenth consecutive win as he took the lead a furlong out and won easily by one and three quarter lengths from Cleonte. His success made him the seventh horse after Isonomy, Alycidon, Souepi, Le Moss, Longboat and Double Trigger to win the Stayers' Triple Crown. On 19 October Stradivarius attempted to win his eleventh consecutive race as he ran for the third time in the British Champions Long Distance Cup and went off the 8/13 favourite. The closing stages saw Stradivarius and the four-year-old Kew Gardens draw away from the field and although the favourite gained a narrow lead a furlong out, his younger rival rallied in the final strides to win by a nose.
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At Doncaster Racecourse on 16 September Stradivarius started 9/2 second favourite behind Capri in what appeared to be a strong edition of the St Leger. He made steady progress on the inside in the straight and finished third, beaten half a length and a short head by Capri and Crystal Ocean with Rekindling in fourth. On his final start of the year he took on older horses again the British Champions Long Distance Cup over two miles at Ascot in October in which he finished third behind Order of St George and Torcedor, beaten a length by the winner. In the 2017 World's Best Racehorse Rankings Stradivarius was given a rating of 118, making him the 90th best racehorse in the world.
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He was born in Deventer in the Netherlands, the son of Johann Röntgen, a German merchant, and his Dutch wife. He entered the Conservatorium der Musik at Leipzig in 1848, where he was a pupil of the violinist Ferdinand David."Engelbert Röntgen and the Gewandhaus" A Violins Life: The Lipinski Stradivarius. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
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Soon Gap and Forever 21 ( opened ) will open in place of a closed department store, along with many international brands including Pull and Bear, Bershka, Express, Massimo Dutti (Kids) and Stradivarius. With a finished remodeled food court and many world renounced international brands Multiplaza is at the front of luxury malls in Costa Rica.
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The Batta-Piatigorsky Stradivarius is a cello made in Cremona, Italy in 1714 by Antonio Stradivari. The Batta-Piatigorsky was acquired by the Dutch cellist, Alexandre Batta, in 1836. It had also been played by the prominent French virtuoso cellist, Adrien-François Servais. In 1893, Batta sold the cello to W.E. Hill & Sons in London.
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As of July 2020, In Mo currently plays on a 1705/1706 Antonio Stradivarius violin loaned to him by a private donor, arranged by Reuning & Sons, Boston. Yang has also played on a ca.1690 violin by Giovanni Tononi and the Il Cannone by Guarneri 'Del Gesu' once owned by the famed Niccolò Paganini.
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The event took place in several venues, including in Rome, New York, Hong Kong, Berlin, and London. For these occasions Garrett was offered a Stradivarius from the Gli Archi di Palazzo Comunale collection. He also appeared at the Royal Variety Performance on 5 December 2011, playing his cover of Nirvana’s "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
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Outside the United States, makers of musical saws include Bahco, makers of the limited edition Stradivarius, Alexis in France, Feldmann and Stövesandt in Germany, Music Blade in Greece and Thomas Flinn & Company in the United Kingdom,Musical Saws and Accessories based in Sheffield, who produce three different sized musical saws, as well as accessories.
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The instrument is owned by entrepreneur, philanthropist and amateur violinist Mr Yu, who purchased it in February 2015 through Rare Violins of New York for an undisclosed sum – making the violin the first Stradivarius to be owned by a private individual on the Chinese mainland. In early 2017, Zimmerman was reunited with his Lady Inchiquin.
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She lives in Berlin and is the mother of a teenage son. Since 1996, she has performed on the "Sleeping Beauty" Stradivarius violin of 1704, on loan from Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. She has also performed with Baroque-style violins and bows. Faust has performed as guest soloist with most of the world's major orchestras.
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In the 1990s, Zara's parent company, Inditex, bought Barcelona brands Massimo Dutti and Stradivarius. Additionally, Barcelona-born Mango opened its first store on Passeig de Gràcia in 1984. Throughout the end of the century, Barcelona continued to grow as a fashion capital and various fashion franchises continued to open stores in the Catalan capital city.
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In Buenos Aires he was given a genuine Stradivarius; when he stayed in Berlin, he married a German woman, was appointed chamber musician to the Emperor, and became a German citizen. He died in 1911, now in poverty, from tuberculosis in Buenos Aires. In 1930 his remains were transferred to Havana with great honours.
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The Alard Stradivarius receives its name from French violinist Jean-Delphin Alard, its most famed owner. Upon the publication of the Hill brothers' work on Stradivari in 1902, The Alard was in the possession of Baron Knoop (1846-1918). The instrument sold at auction in 1981 to a collector in Singapore for US$1.2 million.
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Early in his career, Gluzman enjoyed the encouragement and support of Isaac Stern. In 1994, he received the Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award. Gluzman plays a 1690 Stradivarius violin known as the "Ex-Leopold Auer" (after its previous owner, Hungarian violinist Leopold Auer). It is on extended loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
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The Riga Plaza centre has capacity for over 140 shops, one supermarket, one cinema and an entertainment area with bowling alleys. Furthermore, it offers parking spaces for up to 1471 vehicles. Stores present at the centre include the German "Peek & Cloppenburg", "s.Oliver", also the Spanish brands "Zara", "Stradivarius" , "Mango" and the Swedish "H&M;".
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The quartet made the travel to Europe, North America and Cuba. In 1922, Pochon moved to Lutry. It was here that from now on, the members of the quartet met. In May 1929, after the cessation of the activity of the Flonzaley Quartet, Pochon created with Nicolas Moldavan the Stradivarius Quartet with which he toured nine years.
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The young violinist Fritz Molander inherited a Stradivarius, the so-called “star violin”, from his father, a famous conductor. Molander junior has a lot of talent and has already made it to the first violinist in the State Opera. But he wants more. His goal is great fame as his father, who died early, had once achieved.
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The university established the Jack Benny Award for Comedy in his honor in 1977 to recognize outstanding people in the field of comedy. Johnny Carson was the first award recipient.Brent Lang, Apatow to Receive Jack Benny Award, TheWrap.com, Map 19, 2010 Benny also donated a Stradivarius violin (purchased in 1957) to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Tartini also owned and played the Antonio Stradivarius violin ex-Vogelweith from 1711. In 1726, Tartini started a violin school which attracted students from all over Europe. Gradually, Tartini became more interested in the theory of harmony and acoustics, and from 1750 to the end of his life he published various treatises. He died in Padua.
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"Stradivarius on Stage". La Scena Musicale, by Jean-Sébastien Gascon / June 5, 2004 Since 1989 he has been Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. His concert tours have taken him to four continents and he has performed at many festivals, including Marlboro, Sitka, Santa Barbara, Banff, and Toronto.
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She was appointed as a full professor in the Practice of Violin at Yale University in 2006. Kavafian is in great demand as a visiting professor conducting master classes around the country and online, as well as workshops in Korea, Japan and China. Ani Kavafian is married to artist Bernard Mindich. Her instrument is the 1736 “Muir-McKenzie” Stradivarius.
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Powell played several instruments, including the violin and the bagpipe. Collaborating with W.F. Fry, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Powell conducted research on the construction on violins, measuring such famous instruments as the Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins. The prototypes of the violins created were given to students. One was given to his granddaughter Heidi Powell Priddy.
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Moore Musical Arts Center Built in 1979 at a cost of $9 million. Hosts the 822 seat proscenium Kobacker Hall, the 231 seat Bryan recital hall, recording studios, and over 70 practice rooms. The center houses the College of Musical Arts. Mark Peskanov performed at Bryan Recital Hall with a Kiesewetter Stradivarius on December 9, 1981.
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His time in Chicago was devoted to repairing and restoring violins. During 1970 and 1971 Carl Becker Jr. restored the famous “Lady Blunt” 1721 Stradivarius violin for Tarisio Auctions. Shortly after that, the violin sold at an auction for the record amount of $201 000. Carl F. Becker's children, Jennifer and Paul, continued the family tradition of violin making.
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It includes paintings by artists such as Caravaggio, Juan de Flandes, Francisco de Goya, and Velázquez, and frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Corrado Giaquinto, and Anton Raphael Mengs. Other collections of great historical and artistic importance preserved in the building include the Royal Armoury of Madrid, porcelain, watches, furniture, silverware, and the world's only complete Stradivarius string quintet.
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Weighing less than a pound, the violin brings together the best of the violins Leguía most admired in his 60 years as a professional musician. He was most influenced by Joseph Guarnerius del Gesù, but the Luis and Clark violin also has characteristics from Amati, Montagnana, Stradivarius, J.B. Guadagnini and the rest of the Guarneri family.
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Kang was awarded the 1689 "Baumgartner" Stradivarius, on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts in 1997, 2006 and 2009, and, In 2003, she was awarded the loan of a 1747 Palmason Januarius Gagliano violin. In 2005, she received the Sylva Gelber Foundation Award from the Canada Council for the most talented musician under 30.
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In 1929, the renowned architect Auguste Perret, who also responsible for the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, designed a new 500-seat concert hall for the school.Simeone, p. 185 Named "Salle Cortot" after the school's founder, the hall was designed in the "Art Deco" style. Cortot once described it as: "A hall which sounds like a Stradivarius".
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Gringolts is currently on the music faculty of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. In addition to the modern violin, he has a continued commitment to period-instrument performance. He founded the Gringolts Quartet in 2008 and plays first violin in the quartet. Gringolts plays the "ex-Kiesewetter" Stradivarius violin, loaned to him by the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
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Barbara Penny (1929 – 2007) was a British violinist. She was the first woman to play in the strings section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She attended Malvern Girls' College and received a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. In April, 2008, a Stradivarius violin owned by Penny since 1965 was auctioned by Christie's for $1.2 million.
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When William died in 1988, his sister Muriel offered the violin to the Red Cross. The violin sold in London for £209,000 of which £195,000 went directly to the Red Cross. The violin was purchased by American violinist Elmar Oliveira at Christie's in 1989. Albert I. Stern owned the Molitor Stradivarius for 16 years, until 2010.
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Borok spent 11 years in his Boston posts. In 1985, he won the position of concertmaster in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and joined the Dallas Symphony that year. He initially performed on a Stradivarius violin dating from ca. 1727, owned by the Dallas Symphony, until its theft that year whilst he and the orchestra were on tour.
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Dettori commented "He was a lion, he fought everything off. The crowd lifted him." On 31 July Stradivarius attempted to repeat his 2017 success in the Goodwood Cup and started 4/5 favourite against six opponents headed by Torcedor, Idaho and Desert Skyline. Atzeni (deputising for the suspended Dettori) tracked the leaders as Torcedor set the pace.
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Dettori said "I had half a chance and took it, but you can only do that when you have plenty of horse. He's been a model of consistency and owns the crown of being champion stayer – you can't take it away from him. He's all heart". At the 2018 Cartier Awards, Stradivarius was named Cartier Champion Stayer.
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Garrett received his first Stradivarius violin at the age of 11, courtesy of German president Richard von Weizsäcker, after having performed for him. At the age of 13, Garrett recorded two CDs, appeared on German and Dutch television, and gave a concert in the residence of the President of Germany, the Villa Hammerschmidt, at Dr. von Weizsäcker's personal invitation. He was offered the use of the famous Stradivarius "San Lorenzo", which is among the best instruments of Antonio Stradivari's "golden period". At the age of 13, as the youngest soloist ever, Garrett signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. In April 1997, age 16, he played with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta in Delhi and Mumbai in concerts marking the 50th anniversary of India’s Independence.
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Starting the 11/2 second choice in the betting he overcame interference in the straight to take the lead inside the final furlong and on by a neck from Count Octave. On 1 August at Goodwood Racecourse Stradivarius was stepped up to Group 1 class and matched against older stayers in the Goodwood Cup over two miles. Ridden by Atzeni he started the 6/1 second favourite behind Big Orange (winner of the race for the last two years) while the other runners included US Army Ranger, Wicklow Brave (Irish St Leger), Sheikhzayedroad (Northern Dancer Turf Stakes), Pallasator (Doncaster Cup), Qewy (Geelong Cup), Higher Power (Northumberland Plate), High Jinx (Prix du Cadran) and Sweet Selection (Cesarewitch). After racing in mid-division as Big Orange led, Stradivarius began to make progress three furlongs out.
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He has also appeared at many festivals in the U.S. and abroad. As a teacher, he has presided over numerous master classes around the globe. A published musicologist, Charles Castleman has been the author of articles on Renaissance madrigals and Violinist-composers. He performs on Stradivarius and Goffriller violins from 1709 and chooses from a collection of more than eighty bows.
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In 2017, Avalos directed, produced, edited and shot his first documentary, Strad Style. It follows the work of an Ohio man in trying to build a Stradivarius-quality violin for a highly ranked Romanian violinist.John DeFore, "Review: 'Strad Style'", Hollywood Reporter, May 8, 2017 It premiered at Slamdance Film Festival. It won the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary.
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The Olave Baden-Powell Bursary Fund was set up in 1979 from voluntary contributions in memory of Olave B-P. Annually awarded bursaries aim to allow girls in Girlguiding UK to further their interests and hobbies and realise their dreams. As a child, Olave learned the violin; her first violin she called Diana. It was a copy of a Stradivarius made by Messrs.
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Thomas has played a 1788 Ferdinand Gagliano cello, dubbed the Château Pape Clément, loaned to her by Bernard Magrez, along with a bow by Eugène Sartory on extended loan from the Fondation Roi Baudoin - Fonds Bollandsee. Since 24 September 2019, she has played the De Munck-Feuermann, a 1730 Stradivarius cello, loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation for a period of one year.
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The stone violin is constructed to the designs of Stradivarius, but it uses Widenfalk's own technical modifications to allow it to be played. It weighs only and took two years to construct, being completed in 1992. The sound box of the violin is only thick. It was made with highest precision and constructed with sound-holes, back and graceful scroll.
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The Axelrod quartet, on display in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. From left to right: Greffuhle violin (1709), Axelrod viola (1696), Ole Bull violin (1677), and Marylebone cello (1688). The Axelrod quartet is a set of four Stradivarius instruments collected by Herbert R. Axelrod. The collection consists of the Greffuhle violin, Axelrod viola, Ole Bull violin, and Marylebone cello.
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René François Lacôte (1785–1855) was a Romantic guitar luthier from Paris, France. His guitars were played by guitarists such as Fernando Sor, Ferdinando Carulli, Dionisio Aguado, Napoléon Coste, and Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti. Musicologist René Vannes referred to Lacôte as the "Stradivarius of the guitar" in his book Universal Dictionary of Luthiers. Lacôte apprenticed to the luthier Joseph Pons.
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She has appeared in campaigns for Carolina Herrera, Alexander McQueen, Donna Karan, Stradivarius, Michael Kors, Giuseppe Zanotti, H&M;, Juicy Couture, Victoria Secret, and Marchesa. In 2014, she was chosen to be one of the newcomers at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. In 2015, she became a Victoria's Secret Angel. In March 2017 she announced that she was now represented by IMG Models.
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The Cádiz Stradivarius of 1722 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) of Cremona. The instrument is named after the city Cádiz, Spain where it resided for eighty years. In 1946 it was acquired by American violinist Joseph Fuchs, and is currently owned by a private American foundation. The Cádiz is on loan to violinist Jennifer Frautschi.
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In the 2012–2013 season, the Hagen Quartet performed the complete Beethoven cycle in New York, Tokyo, Paris, London, Salzburg and Vienna. They performed, between December 2013 and August 2017, on the four famous Stradivarius instruments played previously by the Paganini Quartet, the Cleveland String Quartet, and the Tokyo String Quartet, respectively. Those instruments are now being played by the Quartetto di Cremona.
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Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city's Municipal Theater, captivating the local audience enthralled by French culture. The city is at her feet, and even the Emperor Pedro II comes to pay his respects. He confides a secret to her: the disappearance of a precious Stradivarius violin presented by him to the charming widow Baroness Maria Luiza.
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The massive bronze chandelier, which was designed in Europe, was made in three separate sections. The wall panels were handpainted in themes representative of mythology. Music Room To the right of the Grand Entrance Hall is the Music Room. The Show Cabinet adjacent to the fireplace wall encased two Stradivarius violins, among other quality musical instruments like a Welte-Kimball automatic organ.
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The ‘Leonora Jackson’ Stradivari, 1714. Photos: Jan Röhrmann, ‘Antonius Stradivarius Vol I-IV’ Leonora Jackson primarily played on a violin built by Antonio Stradivari in 1714. Jackson acquired the violin in 1906 - most likely through her teacher, Hungarian violinist Joseph Joaquim, to whom it had belonged since 1880. Jackson performed on the violin in concert until she married and stopped performing in 1915.
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H.R. Textiles Mills Limited is a vertical public limited company, engaged in manufacture of knitwear products. H.R. Textiles Mills is a Lycra assured factory. Zara, Bershka, New Look, Stradivarius, and El Corte Inglés are some of their clients. Fashion Knit Garments Limited is engaged in manufacturing knitwear products, consisting of ladies tops, sports and active wear, children outerwear, and men's innerwear.
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The only British competitor placed was Girling driving a Wolseley. Australia'sHull, Peter G. "Napier: The Stradivarius of the Road", in Northey, Tom, ed. The World of Automobiles (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 13, p.1483. S. F. Edge, the 1902 winner who again drove a Napier, was reported to have held a good position during the first two laps, but was disqualifiedHull, p.1488.
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Menuhin in 1937 Signature of Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, (22 April 191612 March 1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the great violinists of the 20th century. He played the Soil Stradivarius, considered one of the finest violins made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari.
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Gone With the Wind Reading a copy of Gone With the Wind at a table in the garden of his real-life house at 1717 North Stanley Avenue, off Hollywood Boulevard, Welles says: This ad was reportedly a last-minute improvisation by Welles after he dismissed the original script he was given, which compared Paul Masson wine to a Stradivarius violin.
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The other six runners included Desert Skyline, Torcedor, Sheikhzayedroad and Max Dynamite (2nd and 3rd in the last two Melbourne Cups). Dettori settled the colt behind the leaders before moving forward to make his challenge in the straight. Stradivarius took the lead from Torcedor a furlong out and kept on "gamely" to win by three quarters of a length from Vazirabad.
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With Dettori in the saddle he led from the start but was overtaken in the straight and beaten one and three quarter lengths by the three-year-old Stradivarius. In the British Champions Long Distance Cup at Ascot on 21 October Big Orange led early but quickly dropped from contention and finished tailed off in a race won by Order of St George.
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In 2010, Caudia Fritz and Curtin organized a double-blind study which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which 21 professional violinists tried to identify which violins were old (including 2 Stradivarius and a Guarneri), and which were new, and which they preferred. 13 of the 21 violinists preferred the new violins. One of the Stradivarius violins was the least preferred. The violinists could not reliably identify which instruments were old, and which were new. Earl Carlyss, a member of the Juilliard String Quartet, was critical of the study saying "It’s a totally inappropriate way of finding out the quality of these instruments", and that what makes the older violins better is how they sound to an audience in a concert hall, not if the violinist likes it, in a hotel room.
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Joshua Bell with the Gibson Stradivarius in 2008 The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius of 1713 is an antique violin fabricated by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The Gibson, while owned by Bronisław Huberman, was stolen twice. The first time the violin was returned shortly after the theft; the second theft, possibly by musician Julian Altman, occurred on the evening of 28 February 1936, backstage at Carnegie Hall, while Huberman performed with his Guarnerius of 1731. Though Huberman never saw the Gibson again, the instrument was recovered 50 years later, in 1985, as a result of Altman's deathbed confession to his wife that he had bought the stolen violin from a friend for $100. In 1988, she turned the Strad over to Lloyd's, which paid her a $263,000 finder's fee and then sold the violin for $1.2 million to Norbert Brainin, an acclaimed English violinist.
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In 1850 Röntgen became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, in 1869 the second concertmaster and in 1873 he took David's place as first concertmaster of the orchestra. He remained in the orchestra until his death in 1897. He was also a teacher in the Conservatorium. In 1861 he acquired the Lipinski Stradivarius; the violin remained with Röntgen and his descendants for three generations.
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For since his death the family has been in considerable economic difficulties and has to restrict itself. Fritz absolutely wants to change this situation. To make matters worse, Molander's concert agency demands a considerable advance payment, which he can only pay if he sells the precious star violin. After selling the Stradivarius, Molander can finally give unlimited concerts and is celebrated by both critics and audiences.
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In the late seventies Verhey acquired the 'Earl Spencer', a Stradivarius from 1723 which she played until she acquired a violin by Andrea Guarneri from 1676 in the late nineties. In the year 2000 Emmy Verhey commissioned a copy of her Andrea Guarneri, made by the dutch violinmaker Lambert Houniet. The instrument was completed in 2001 and owned by Verhey until her retirement from the concert stage.
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In 1984, after a tour with the Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic around Austria and Germany, his European fame came to the musician. 30 concerts were played, at which the music of Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Sibelius, Glazunov, Prokofiev was performed. H. von Karajan attended the concerts in Vienna. During this period, Sergei Stadler has been playing the Stradivarius violin, owned by the State Collection.
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He worked in Madrid from about 1745, as violin maker and repairer to the Spanish Court. This brought him into contact with some of the best violins of his day, including examples by Stradivarius and Guarnerius. He is famous for the copies of these instruments which he made, using fine materials and exceptional skill. Only a few of his instruments have survived today, and are highly prized.
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See: Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, with André Previn (piano), HMV LP ASD 2873 (issued 1973), sleevenote. From 1956 to 1996, Parisot owned the De Munck Stradivarius. Parisot's performance at Tanglewood of Donald Martino's Parisonatina al'Dodecafonia for solo cello—a piece written for Parisot—received many favorable reviews, including from Harold Schonberg of The New York Times and from The Boston Globe.
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Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017) says With each of his lap times within 3 minutes of the other, he earned his nickname of "the Chronometer".Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017) Jenatzy was second, driving a Mercedes. The only British competitor placed was Sidney Girling driving a Wolseley. Australia'sHull, Peter G. "Napier: The Stradivarius of the Road", in Northey, Tom, ed.
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According to his website, Bell "was practically in tears." Bell then sold his current Stradivarius, the Tom Taylor, for a little more than two million dollars and made the purchase of the Gibson ex Huberman for a little under the four million dollar asking price. His first recording made with the Gibson ex Huberman was Romance of the Violin (under Sony Classical) in 2003.
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Rencontre: Renaud Capuçon. Diapason No.652, December 2016, p38-41. He has recorded chamber works of Ravel, Schubert, Brahms, as well concertos for violin by Schumann and Mendelssohn under the direction of Daniel Harding. After playing a Vuillaume, a Guadagnini, and then a Stradivarius, in 2005 the Banque de Suisse Italienne BSI loaned him a Guarnerius, the "Panette" of 1737 that had belonged to Isaac Stern.
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The family collection included the Stradivarius named after them. Dying without issue in 1784, he left his property to a family friend, the Reverend Thomas Shaw, on condition he change his name to Hellier. One of his descendants spent years as commandant of the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall. It is claimed that the Wodehouse has not been sold for over 900 years.
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Bershka () is a clothing retailer company. It is part of the Spanish Inditex group (which also own the brands of Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear;, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and Zara Home).Bershka The company was created in April 1998 as a new store and fashion concept, aimed at a young target market. It now has over 1000 stores in 71 countries around the world.
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In early 2009 Vänskä helped launch the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Sensational Sundays concert series, playing Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata.Lalak, A. (2009). "Satu Vänskä, Australian Chamber Orchestra play Kreutzer Sonata", The Daily Telegraph Vänskä is currently assistant leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, traveling nationally and internationally with her Tommaso Balestrieri violin. In 2011, she became the custodian of the only Stradivarius violin in Australia.
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She began to study violin under Jenő Hubay when she was ten years old. At the age of 17, she won the artists' diploma, the highest musical distinction in Hungary. She was a great-niece of Joseph Joachim, and she studied with him in Berlin until his death, being possibly the only private pupil he ever accepted. He bequeathed to her one of his Stradivarius violins.
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Ten years after the opening of the first Zara store, Inditex was established as a holding company for the couple's businesses. Inditex now comprises multiple fashion companies, of which Zara is the flagship. The company also owns the retailers Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius, Uterque and Zara Home. Inditex now has over 6000+ stores in over 86 countries and over 120,000 employees.
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The Jupiter, ex-Goding Stradivarius is a violin constructed in 1722 by the famous luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is one of only 700 extant Stradivari instruments in the world today. The Jupiter is owned by the Nippon Music Foundation. It was on extended loan to Midori prior to her receiving the 1731c ex-Gibson/ex-Huberman del Gesu, which is now her concert instrument.
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Felici, C. (eng. translation by Boini, N.): "Exabrupto" -CD booklet-, page 14, Stradivarius recordings, 2005. About the triptych works Figuralmusik (1996–1998), the composer says: "it originates from the fascination that I have always felt for perceptive illusions, translated into impossible objects in physical reality, and, above all, for the results of the interlacing planes and perspectives used by Piranesi and M. C. Escher".Cit.
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Air – The Bach Album debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard charts on its release on February 14, 2012. It featured "Bach Double" played on two different Stradivarius violins. Meyers' performance of The Vivaldi Four Seasons Album debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard charts when released on February 14, 2014. Meyers was the top-selling classical instrumentalist of 2014 on Billboards traditional classical charts.
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In 2006, after being nominated by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Barton Pine received the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award for her work through the foundation. She has also been given the 2012 Karl Haas Prize for Music Education for this work and her other education-related efforts. A Stradivarius violin, the 'Arkwright Lady Rebecca Sylvan', was donated to the foundation by Joseph Sylvan in 2015.
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Stéphane Tétreault (born 10 April 1993) is a Canadian cellist. He first made international headlines as the recipient of Bernard Greenhouse's cello,, A Beloved Set of Strings Goes to a Good Home - Daniel J. Wakin, Jan. 22, 2012 - The New York Times the 1707 "Countess of Stainlein, Ex-Paganini" Stradivarius, generously loaned to him by Mrs. Jacqueline Desmarais and following her passing by her daughter Mrs.
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Two bankers from Sparkasse Bremen bank invited Roger Hargrave to inspect their violins, which they believed to be Stradivarius violins. Machold had represented them as such when he offered them as collateral for a multi-million dollar loan. Had the violins been genuine Stradvari their estimated combined sale price would be around $6.8 million. Upon viewing the instruments Hargrave said they were not Stradivari.
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He then gave the lenders at Flessabank different instruments that didn't belong to him, which were seized during the investigation. Machold told police that he had sold the Rosé Stradivarius in 2006 for €3 million to pay off his loan with BAWAG. However, he had used the violin for collateral with HypoVereinsbank who received nothing. Machold admitted that he "duplicated certificates for violins" when he needed.
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Tikhonov for the first time begins to suspect Belash whom he previously liked. Attorney examines in detail Belash's alibi on the day of the theft and discovers that Belash is one of the criminals, the very same "Boss". Belash is arrested, but the most dangerous criminal "Cross" is still at large. He is armed and dangerous and most importantly - the Stradivarius violin is in his hands.
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In 2018 Order of St George won the Vintage Crop Stakes and a third Saval Beg Stakes but finished fourth behind Stradivarius when joint-favourite for the Ascot Gold Cup. On 11 September Aidan O'Brien announced that the horse had been retired. He explained "It's nothing serious, just age has caught up with him, and we thought it was the right thing to do for the horse".
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A keen recitalist and chamber musician, Giovanni has worked closely with some of today's leading musicians, including Sir Colin Davis, Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, Martin Fröst, Daniel Hope, Maxim Vengerov, Stephen Hough, Mats Lidstrom, Gerhard Schulz, Colin Carr, Gábor Takács-Nagy, the Maggini and Takacs Quartets. He regularly performs as soloist in some of the most prestigious venues in Venezuela, USA, China, Japan, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the UK, including recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Giovanni has performed on several occasions for the British Royal Family, most recently performing for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the famous 'Viotti ex-Bruce' Stradivarius violin (one of the most precious Stradivarius violins in the world). He has also been awarded with Her Majesty the Queen’s commendation for Excellence and HRH Princess Alice's Prize (presented by HRH The Duchess of Gloucester).
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Antonio Stradivari violin of 1703 on exhibit, behind glass, at the Musikinstrumentenmuseum (Berlin Musical Instrument Museum), 2006 A Stradivarius made in the 1680s, or during Stradivari's "Long Pattern" period from 1690 to 1700, could be worth hundreds of thousands to several million U.S. dollars at today's prices. The 1697 "Molitor" Stradivarius, once rumored to have belonged to Napoleon (it did belong to a general in his army, Count Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor), sold in 2010 at Tarisio Auctions to violinist Anne Akiko Meyers for $3,600,000, at the time a world record. Depending on condition, instruments made during Stradivari's "golden period" from 1700 to about 1725 can be worth millions of dollars. In 2011, his "Lady Blunt" violin from 1721, which is in pristine condition, was sold in London for $15.9 million (it is named after Lord Byron's granddaughter Lady Anne Blunt, who owned it for 30 years).
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He conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Dresdner Sinfoniker, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Swedish Orchestra, The Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, Wiener Konzerthaus, Sydney Festival, Berliner Festspiele / März Musik in the Berliner Philharmonie, Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Opéra national de Nancy, Staatstheater Darmstadt, RomaEuropa Festival, Schauspielhaus Zurich (with the world premiere of Goebbels' Industry and Idleness, 2010), Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Zagreb Biennale, Hellerau Dresden. His compositions are published by RAI Trade (Rome), Nuova Stradivarius (Milan) and Ricordi (Milan). He has been recording with Naive (Paris), ECM (Munich), Stradivarius (Milan) and ABC Classics (Sydney) among others.
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The Quintetto Chigiano was founded in Siena, Italy, in 1939 and took its name from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, which was founded by Count Chigi- Saracini. It was one of the rare permanent quintets in the world. The Quintet had the use of the four best instruments from Count Chigi-Saracini's private collection, namely a Camillo Camilli and a Guadagnini violin, an Amati viola and a Stradivarius violoncello.
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His other major winners have included Harzand, Taghrooda, Stradivarius, Sea of Class and Sea The Moon. Star Catcher's dam Lynnwood Chase showed no racing ability, failing to win or place in two six starts but was a very successful broodmare who also produced Cannock Chase (Canadian International Stakes) and Pisco Sour (Prix Eugène Adam). She is one of several notable horses descended from the Lowther Stakes winner Bitty Girl.
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His violins included a Gofriller (he bought another, 1696, Gofriller in 1927), a Felice Guadagnini, and a Nicolas Gagliano. At the Cobbett competition in February 1923 he played in a 'blind' comparison of a 1731 Stradivarius and a modern instrument by Alfred Vincent. When Sammons sold the Gofriller in 1951 he gave the new owner a list of all the works he had played on it.Wetherell E. Albert Sammons violinist.
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In truth, it was not the only varnish of the eighteenth century that Bisiach could use. He had at hand another formula used first by Giovan Battista Ceruti (1755-1817) and later by two other generations of the same family. In addition, in 1929 he gained possession of a collection of documents attributed to Stradivarius, among which he found another formula that dated back to the great Cremonese.
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An avid chamber musician, Lin appears at the Beijing Music Festival, as well as his perennial appearances performing at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. He is also featured in the film 4 as the principal violin of the Vivaldi's Autumn in one of the Four Quartets of the Four Seasons. He plays the 1715 "Titian" Stradivarius.
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These rooms were formerly occupied by Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón before his exile. The Stradivarius Room now contains a viola, two viloncello, and two violins by Stradivari. The ceiling fresco by A. G. Velazquez, depicts Gentleness accompanied by the Four Cardinal Virtues. The Chamber of the Infante Luis, Musical Instruments Room, has a ceiling fresco by Francisco Bayeu depicting Providence Presiding over the Virtues and Faculties of Man.
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Igino Sderci with Leandro Bisiach & sons 1921 Igino (Iginius) Sderci (1884 - 1983) was born in Gaiole/ Chianti, Italy. He devoted his entire career to violin making, studying under master maker Leandro Bisiach. A very prolific maker making more than 700 instruments including many large violas. He won gold medals at the prestigious Stradivarius Exhibition at Cremona in 1937 marking the bicentenary of Stradivari's death (as well as prizes in 1949).
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As CARE ambassador, Steinbacher is driven to use music as a means to uplift and support those in need. She launched a December 2011 Japan tour in response to the tsunami disaster earlier that year. The DVD release Arabella Steinbacher – Music of Hope featured her outreach, and youth recitals from this tour and was released shortly after. Steinbacher currently plays the Booth Stradivarius (1716) provided by the Nippon Music Foundation.
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Aldo Ferraresi died in Sanremo on 29 June 1978. In May 2002, the 100th anniversary of his birth was marked by an exhibition and seminars in Ferrara and concerts in his honour in Ferrara at the Teatro Comunale. Ferraresi played on many precious violins, among of them are the "King George" Stradivarius and the "Cannone" Guarneri of Paganini. His favourite instruments were a Camillo Camilli and an Alessandro Gagliano.
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From October 2006 until August 2010, Hadelich performed with the 1683 "ex-Gingold" Stradivari as the standing first-prize winner of the Indianapolis Competition. Hadelich then performed with the 1723 Kiesewetter Stradivarius violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. Hadelich currently performs with the 1744 "Leduc / Szeryng" Guarneri del Gesu lent to him through the Tarisio Trust for an extended period.
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The foundation lends the violin by announcing it on the daily newspapers, musical publications and on its website. Interested musicians may apply to enjoy the violin for the said period of time. A knowledgeable jury decides on the musician who will have the violin. According to the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, Berglund's Stradivarius violin was sold by his heirs in 2012 to the Finnish Cultural Foundation for 1.8 million euros.
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The acoustics were generally regarded as superb. The French composer and conductor Antoine Elwart described it as the Stradivarius of concert halls. In 1828 François Habeneck, a professor of violin and head of the Conservatory's orchestra, founded the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire (forerunner of the Orchestre de Paris). The Society held concerts in the hall almost continuously until 1945, when it moved to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
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Chee-Yun plays the Stradivarius "Ex-Strauss" (Cremona, 1708), loaned by Samsung Corporation. Chee-Yun owns a Francesco Ruggieri violin made in the year 1669 which she purchased during the early years of her career. Her violin is speculated to have been buried underground for nearly two hundred years with its previous owner in Norway. She appeared in the season 7 episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, "Denise Handicapped".
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The Washington Post selected his recording of the Beethoven concerto with Klezmer cadenzas by Airat Ichmouratov as CD of the Year. He now records for Spectra and Sony Classical. His latest release Stradivarius at the Opera, recorded with the Vienna Symphony, quickly attained the best-seller status, and was converted into a multimedia concert booked around the world. Alexandre Da Costa is Music Director of the Acacia Ensemble (Canada).
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'Obituary', Musical Times May 1987, Vol 128. The National Portrait Gallery lists 8 portraits of Grinke in its collections. Grinke played an instrument by J. B. Rogerius of 1686, with aluminium-covered D and A, and silver-covered G and steel E strings, but also often played a Stradivarius dated 1718, lent by the Royal Academy of Music. He was married in 1942 to Dorothy Sirr Sheldon and had one son.
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Iulius Mall Cluj is a shopping mall in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and was opened on 10 November 2007. It has 250 stores including one hypermarket Auchan () and several anchors, such as : Auchan, Inditex Group (Zara,Bershka,Pull&Bear;, Stradivarius, Massimo Dutti), Tommy Hilfiger, H&M;, Cinema City. It has a 10 screen cinema complex, 25 fast-food and three restaurants. It has a swimming pool and a fitness club.
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In his teens Temianka played a Laurentius Storioni of 1780. While traveling under the aegis of the Curtis Institute, he briefly played a loaned Stradivarius, which was exchanged for a Januarius Gagliano. In 1929 Temianka owned the violin made in 1752 by Joannes Baptista Guadagnini. In the 1930s he played a Silvestre violin, with which he made his early Vintage recordings, and subsequently a Januarius Gagliano and a Carlo Bergonzi.
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He was then stepped up to extended distances and finished third to Stradivarius in both the Goodwood Cup on 31 July and the Lonsdale Cup at York on 24 August. On his final appearance Idaho contested the Irish St. Leger at the Curragh on 16 September. He threw off Heffernan exiting the parade ring and made little impact in the race, coming home fifth of the six runners.
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He was a collector and amateur violinist who lived in Birmingham, England. The Muntz, among the last of the instruments made by Stradivari, is currently owned by the Nippon Music Foundation. Since 2007, the Muntz Stradivarius has been leased to Yuki Manuela Janke, concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Dresden. It was confiscated at Frankfurt Airport in 2012 when Janke returned from a performance in Tokyo, but was later returned.
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"Staattheater Listing" Description on the Darmstadt Staatstheater of the opera in German. Retrieved 14 August 2014. Recently, in 2008, the Italian Stradivarius Records Co. a recording which includes his orchestral work, played by the Orchestra of the Community of Madrid and directed by José Ramón Encinar. In 2010, The Tritó Records Company compiled a release in conjunction with the Symphonic Orchestra of Barcelona and National of Catalunya, directed by Jaime Martin.
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She and Una Bourne were champions of British composers: in 1920 their Continental concerts featured violin sonatas by Elgar and Dunhill. Sometime perhaps around 1920 she married Robert H. Bryson of Montreal. He bought for her a 1717 Stradivarius violin, for which he paid £5000 sometime perhaps around 1930. Reference to husband being named Sawyers is assumed to be an error, as is name "John Bryson" in genealogy website.
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He was born in Michle (now part of Prague). His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after discovering the talent of Jan, who was aged five at the time, arranged for him to study with Karel Weber and Karel Ondříček. Aged eight he studied at the Prague Conservatory with Otakar Ševčík, of whose technique he became the most famous representative. As a child, he used to practice 10 to 12 hours a day, or "until my fingers started to bleed." After 1898, he toured as a soloist, soon becoming renowned for his great virtuosity and flawless intonation, and his very full and noble tone. He played a Guarneri del Gesù and also two Stradivarius violins: he acquired the 1715 Stradivarius Emperor in 1910. After great success following his debut in Vienna, and in London (where he first appeared at a Hans Richter concert in 1900), Kubelík toured in the USA in 1901 for the first time.
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Above all, these instruments are famous for the quality of sound they produce. However, the many blind experiments from 1817A guitar-like violin made by the naval engineer François Chanot, a member of a family of luthiers. A committee of scientists and musicians, listening to the violins played in an adjacent room, judged Chanot's violin to be at least as good as the Stradivarius, but apparently Chanot's instruments quickly lost their good qualities. to the present (as of 2014) have never found any difference in sound between Stradivari's violins and high-quality violins in comparable style of other makers and periods, nor has acoustic analysis. In a particularly famous test on a BBC Radio 3 programme in 1977, the violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and the violin expert and dealer Charles Beare tried to distinguish between the "Chaconne" Stradivarius, a 1739 Guarneri del Gesú, an 1846 Vuillaume, and a 1976 British violin played behind a screen by a professional soloist.
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Dr Johnson drew inspiration from The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771), according to later writers: "Dr. Burney published an account of his tour... which was extremely well received, and deemed by the best judges so good a model for travellers who were inclined to give a description of what they had seen or observed, that Dr. Johnson professedly imitated it in his own Tour of the Hebrides, saying, 'I had that clever dog Burney's Musical Tour in my eye.'" Burney appears in a story by Lillian de la Torre (Lillian Bueno McCue, 1902–1993), a US writer of historical mysteries, entitled "The Viotti Stradivarius", part of her series featuring Samuel Johnson as a "detector" (detective). The story features a fictitious meeting between Burney, his daughter Fanny, Giovanni Battista Viotti and his Stradivarius, and Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov, along with Johnson and James Boswell, in connection with the theft and recovery of the Orlov diamond.
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After a lengthy break Kew Gardens returned in autumn for the Irish St. Leger over fourteen furlongs at the Curragh on 15 September. After racing towards the rear of the field he stayed on strongly in the straight but registered his third successive second place as he was beaten just over two lengths by the three-year-old filly Search For A Song. In the British Champions Long Distance Cup over two miles at Ascot on 19 October Kew Gardens was partnered by Donnacha O'Brien and started the 7/2 second favourite behind Stradivarius in a nine-runner field which also included Withhold (Rose Bowl Stakes), Royal Line (September Stakes), Capri and Cleonte (Queen Alexandra Stakes). After racing in third place behind Withhold and Capri, Kew Gardens took the lead in the straight and although he was headed by Stradivarius he rallied to regain the advantage in the final strides and won by a nose.
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In April 2008, Alex Mendelssohn donated his painting entitled Venice to the 14th Annual Celebrity Fight Night in Scottsdale, Arizona, in honour of Muhammad Ali, featuring Live Auction items and star-studded live musical performances that raised funds for the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute as the primary beneficiary. Alex Mendelssohn has also painted for the celebrated virtuoso violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn who owns the legendary 1720 Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius violin.
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Propolis is a resinous mixture collected by honey bees from tree buds, sap flows or other botanical sources, which is used as a sealant for unwanted open spaces in the hive. Although propolis is alleged to have health benefits (tincture of propolis is marketed as a cold and flu remedy), it may cause severe allergic reactions in some individuals. Propolis is also used in wood finishes, and gives a Stradivarius violin its unique red color.
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Henryk Grohman built a villa in 1892, designed by Hilary Majewski, which became a centre of culture for Łódź. Music concerts took place in the villa, while artists such as writer Henryk Sienkiewicz and composer Ignacy Paderewski were hosted there. Grohman was an avid art collector, and items in his possession included a 1734 Guarneri violin and the Lauterbach Stradivarius, which he often played himself. His entire estate was bequeathed to the Polish state.
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Previously, she had lived and studied in Italy, helping producer Franco Fontana take Brazilian artists to the country. She eventually married one of them - Vinicius de Moraes. In the comuna of Sesto ed Uniti (more precisely in the municipality of Sesto Cremonese), Russo learned his ancestors were peasants, and not noble people as he believed. He was less disturbed, however, after he was informed that it was there that the Stradivarius violins were created.
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The violin Blackbird The bridge is of yellow mammoth ivory, symbolising the blackbird's yellow beak The Blackbird, also called the Black Stone Violin, is a full-size playable violin made of black diabase after drawings by Antonio Stradivari (Stradivarius), but with technical modifications to allow it to be played. The violin was conceived and designed by the Swedish artist Lars Widenfalk. It was named 'Blackbird' after the common blackbird (Turdus merula) because of its coloring.
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Nonetheless, he continued playing while he was in the service. The last time Hochstein played the Stradivarius was March 8, 1918, at a recital attended by Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the President, at Camp Upton on Long Island. The next day, during a trip by the Camp's vaudeville troupe to Rockville Center, the bus carrying the troupe broke down and crashed. There were no injuries, but the violin ended up in pieces.
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He was a skilled violin player, and early in life turned his attention to making violins as an avocation. He was of the opinion that the superior tones of the Amati and Stradivarius instruments were due to their having been made of old and seasoned wood. Accordingly, he selected the wood for his violins himself from the forests of Vermont and Canada, taking his wood from partially decayed trees. He constructed 140 violins.
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Kees Boeke has recorded more than 70 records and CDs for Teldec, Das Alte Werk, EMI, RCA, New Age, Channel Classics, Arcana, Symphonia, Attack, Erato, Philips, Stradivarius, Glossa, Aiming and his own label Olive Music. In the field of contemporary music, he and Antonio Politano formed Duix, a duo that specializes in contemporary music for (contra)bass recorders and live electronics. In addition, Kees Boeke is active as a composer (Donemus, Amsterdam, Sheetmusicnow.
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In 1870, the Davidov Stradivarius was given to the eponymous Karl Davydov (1838–1889) by patron Count Matvei Wielhorski (1794–1866) (see Russian Wikipedia), at the court of Tsar Alexander II. Davydov was a Russian cellist of great renown at the time, described as the "czar of cellists" by Tchaikovsky, though far less successful as a composer. The cello body has a few marks and scratches due to mishandling from this period.
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All the > Goffriller cellos that I have tried are not easy to play. For each note you > need to know how much bow pressure, how much vibrato and how much bow speed > you can put on it. It is an instrument that you really need to know to be > able to play; it is not like a Montagnana or a Stradivarius. Montagnana, for > example - most of them are really easy to play.
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He always played Mandolins produced by Luigi Embergher, which he compared to the Stradivarius violin in perfection. Ranieri once visited Embergher's shop in Rome and tried out an instrument marked Gold Medal Paris 1900. When he wanted to buy it the luthier replied that it was not for sale, but that he could play it at the evening recital. After the recital Embergher approached Ranieri and offered him the instrument as a gift.
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Alexandre Dubach has taught in Castel del Monte, Zürich (at the master classes after A. Grumiaux and N. Milstein), Delémont and Sion and is also in great demand as a teacher in eastern Europe. In 2012 it was reported that he forgot a valuable Stradivarius violin he had borrowed from the befriended owner in a railway train while returning from a long concert evening. The violin was subsequently returned by the finder.
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At the same time the performing artist's rights to Berglund's recordings as well as his valuable collection of orchestral sheet music were donated to the foundation. The latter material will be made available to researchers in ten years' time. The violin will be named Stradivarius ex. Berglund. Mr Berglund's son Juha Berglund, the spokesperson for the family, says that his father had several instruments, but the Stradivari was the dearest to him.
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The Solomon, Ex-Lambert Stradivarius of 1729 is a violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644–1737). The instrument derives its name from previous owners Seymour Solomon, co-founder of Vanguard Records, and British violinist, Dorothy Mary Murray Lambert The Solomon, ex-Lambert comes from Stradivari's mature period and, retains the bold outline, superb arching and quality materials which account for the power, sonority and tonal balance his work is recognized for.
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Antonio Stradivari (, also ,"Stradivari, Antonio" (US) and ; 1644 – 18 December 1737) was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial Strad are terms often used to refer to his instruments. It is estimated that Stradivari produced 1,116 instruments, of which 960 were violins. Around 650 instruments survived, including 450 to 512 violins.
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As Concertmaster, he regularly leads orchestras such as the Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Singapore Symphony, under conductors such as Philippe Jordan, Tugan Sokhiev, Günther Herbig and Lorin Maazel. He currently holds the position of Artistic Director of the Laurentians Classical Festival of Canada and Artistic Director at Acacia Classics Productions. Alexandre Da Costa plays the "Deveault" Stradivarius of 1701 loaned by his friends Guy and Maryse Deveault.
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It was larger and wider than the Tecchler. Feuermann later owned the De Munck Stradivarius cello of 1730. It was previously on extended loan from the Nippon Foundation to cellist Steven Isserlis from 1998 to 2011, and it is currently on loan to Danjulo Ishizaka since 2014. Feuermann is also said to have owned and played a Gofriller cello later owned by American cellist Joseph Schuster; from Schuster, it was passed on to Jascha Silberstein.
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During the visit, they learn that David's violins are quite valuable. His own is an Amati and his father's, which he had loaned to a blind friend, a Stradivarius. Reading the old letter from David's father, John recognizes the signature and realizes that David's father was a world-famous violinist who had disappeared with his son after his wife's death. David is sent to be reunited with his relatives and to study the violin.
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Stefan, the ghost, appears the day Karl dies and plays his Stradivarius (s long Strad) (apparently also a ghost). Triana secludes herself in her house for several days without informing anyone of Karl's death. The book tells the story of both Triana and Stefan. Stefan takes Triana in a travel through time, visiting scenes from his life and his afterlife in an attempt to reclaim his violin, which had been taken by Triana.
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The frequency range used is from 6 to 30 MHz. Launched officially in 2009, the French STRADIVARIUS research project developed a new over-the-horizon radar (High Frequency Surface Wave Radar – HFSWR) capable of monitoring maritime traffic up to 200 nautical miles offshore. A demonstration site, DIGINEXT is operational since January 2015 on the French Mediterranean coast to showcase the 24/7 capabilities of the system that is now offered for sale by DIGINEXT.
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Homer browses through a box with items that cost five cents each. These include the United States Declaration of Independence, a copy of Action Comics #1, a complete block of Inverted Jenny misprint postal stamps, and a Stradivarius violin. Principal Skinner tries on a prison mask with the number 24601, notable as Jean Valjean's prison number in Les Misérables. Homer buys Grampa a pink Cadillac, just as Elvis Presley did for his mother.
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They then returned to Calgary to share in the stolen wealth being gathered by the Wizard but the plan went haywire when Hourman (Rick Tyler) revived and freed himself, as well as when Solomon Grundy was brought in from the Arctic Circle. It was Hourman who incapacitated the Fiddler by destroying the Stradivarius, and after the confusion he was taken into custody by Canadian law enforcement.Infinity Inc. #35-37 (February–April 1987).
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Propolis is a resinous mixture collected by honey bees from tree buds, sap flows or other botanical sources, which is used as a sealant for unwanted open spaces in the hive. Although propolis is alleged to have health benefits (tincture of Propolis is marketed as a cold and flu remedy), it may cause severe allergic reactions in some individuals. Propolis is also used in wood finishes, and gives a Stradivarius violin its unique red color.
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Ursula Bagdasarjanz performed as soloist and narrator in a ZDF TV documentary, which introduced the public to a Swiss industrialist's pre- eminent collection of Stradivarius instruments. She was also part of the "Tonhalle Wettbewerb Zurich" jury (competition by Tonhalle Zurich). In July 2001, 2002 and in 2004, Ursula Bagdasarjanz was invited to Romania to give violin master classes in Târgu-Mureş. She was also a member of the jury of the Constantin Silvestri music competition.
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The Viotti; ex-Bruce Stradivarius of 1709 is an antique violin constructed by luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1737). It is one of only 700 known extant Stradivari instruments. The violin receives its name from its first known owner, violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti, who is said to have received it as a love token from Catherine the Great. Viotti is thought to have commissioned the construction of at least one replica of this violin.
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Among his many documentary films are Everglades, In the Spirit of Stradivarius, Navaho Sandpainting, Singapore Street Opera, and Cameras on Move—all for National Geographic Television. He also was the producer of Pearls, the first PBS series on Asians in America. He has done numerous films and videos for the U.S. government, including several for the White House, and recently completed a video to teach Korean and other Asian immigrants about the U.S. justice system.
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In 1980, now penniless and subsisting on odd jobs and petty theft, Johnson stole the Ames Stradivarius from Totenberg's dressing room after a concert. He played it regularly, including at public venues, but it was never recognized. After 1980, Johnson made a very modest living as a freelance musician. In the early 1990s, Johnson found a measure of success after forming the musical trio Mobius with cellist Michael Fitzpatrick and pianist Xak Bjerken.
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Stradivarius is a chestnut horse with a narrow white blaze and four white socks bred in Ireland by his owner Bjorn Nielsen. He was sent into training with John Gosden at Newmarket, Suffolk. He is from the fourth crop of foals sired by Sea the Stars who won the 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 2009. His other major winners have included Harzand, Taghrooda and Sea The Moon.
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Written alongside Colombian band Morat, it became her third number-one hit in Spain and was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the 2019 LOS40 Music Awards. She also released an illustrated book which she named La Tinta de Mis Ojos, became an ambassador for Stradivarius, took part of a Coca-Cola Christmas campaign, did a cameo in Skam España and presented Bad Bunny alongside Pons at the 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.
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In addition, she has sold more than 300,000 records as a solo classical recording artist. Some awards that she has won include the Sylva Gelber prize, Public Francophone Radio's "Soloist of the Year 1987", and the Prize of the Americas at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival. Dubeau plays the "Des Rosiers" Stradivarius violin from 1733. She received this violin in 1976 when the violinist and previous owner Arthur Leblanc met Dubeau and heard her play.
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Mr. Carney is passionate about music education and currently serves as Artistic Director for the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras. Jonathan is presently on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center, an intensive seven-week summer music festival in the mountains of western North Carolina. As a sought after clinician he also gives master classes throughout the United States and abroad. Mr. Carney performs on a 1687 Stradivarius, the Mercur-Avery, on which he uses "Vision" strings by Thomastik-Infeld.
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The Amadeus Quartet, informally known as the Wolf Gang, gave its first concert in London in 1948. The Amadeus Quartet made some 200 recordings, among them the complete quartets of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart and works by 20th-century composers such as Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten (who wrote his third quartet for them). Nissel played the "Payne" Stradivarius of 1731. He married the statistician Muriel Griffiths in 1957, and they had a daughter Claire and a son Daniel.
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Batman and Robin barely escape from their hot ordeal and track Catwoman's next step. Catwoman disguises herself as a wealthy and elderly recluse - Minerva Matthews - to exchange a quarter million dollars each for two Stradivarius violins. Once the instruments are safely in her hands, the villainess reveals her true identity and demands the cash back. But Catwoman is surprised to learn that her business partner - Zubin Zucchini - is also not who he appears to be - Robin The Boy Wonder.
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The Cecilia Stradivarius violin, an antique dated to 1697, was loaned to Kokas for five years in 2011 by the now defunct Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. The Cecilia is said to have arrived in Hungary with Archbishop János Pyrker, who purchased several high quality instruments in Venice. It was sold after World War II; the violin's history between the war and its reappearance in Hungary are not known. She also plays a 1863 Luigi Fabris viola.
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Kamio currently studies with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule Musik und Theater (HMT) in Zurich, Switzerland. She plays a Stradivarius from 1727, previously owned by Joseph Joachim, on loan from Suntory. She has appeared with renowned orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, the Russian National Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, and the Zürcher Kammerorchester. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2000 and first prize for violin in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2007.
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' is a 1707 violin made by Antonio Stradivari. The Associated Press reported that the instrument was named La Cathedrale for the "majesty of its tone". It fetched a record $483,000 at Sotheby's auction in 1984, the highest for any musical instrument sold at auction until The Colossus Stradivarius was purchased by Luigi Alberto Bianchi for $726,000 in 1987. Nigel Kennedy played La Cathedrale early in his career, but later purchased the Lafont, an instrument made by Guarneri del Gesù.
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"The storied restaurant, with its distinctly American approach using top-quality farmers' market ingredients, helped set the tone for Los Angeles dining in the 1990s," wrote Betty Hallock. For more than two decades Peel served as Executive Chef at Campanile, where food critic Jonathan Gold observed that "... Peel is still the most exacting grill chef in the country, a master who plays his smoldering logs the way that Pinchas Zukerman does a Stradivarius." Campanile closed in 2012.
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His father-in-law, a lawyer, bought him a Stradivarius violin for his wedding present. Szymanowski dedicated his Violin Concerto No. 1 in 1916 to Kochanski, who contributed the cadenza. In 1913–1914 in London, Rubinstein introduced Kochanski to the music room of Paul and Muriel Draper, to which they also introduced Szymanowski, and where Paul met Igor Stravinsky. In this circle they were often with Pablo Casals, Jacques Thibaud, Lionel Tertis, Pierre Monteux and others.
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The Cholmondeley is the name of a Stradivarius cello (violin) that was made in Cremona, Italy, by Antonio Stradivari around 1698. It holds the record as the world's most valuable cello. At an auction at Sotheby's in London on 22 June 1988 it fetched the highest auction price ever at £682,000 ( 1.2 million). Purchase of the Cholmondeley surpassed the previous record for an instrument at auction (also in 1988) of $890,000, which was for Stradavarius violin named Marie Hall.
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Gemünder specialized in copying old Italian masters, especially the instruments of Antonio Stradivarius, Joseph Guarnerius, and Paolo Maggini. In 1844 he was asked by a German violinist to make a violin that should not be an imitation, as to tone or any other quality, of the Italian masters. In executing the order, he succeeded in producing an instrument that he preserved as a model. His violins were used by leading soloists, such as August Wilhelmj and Adolf Brodsky.
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One of the violins The Stradivarius Palatinos are a set of five string instruments made by Antonio Stradivari around 1700. They are kept in Madrid's Royal Palace. The term "Palatino" can be translated as "court" Stradivari instruments, as it refers to their having been acquired for the royal collection. Four of the five are decorated instruments known as the Royal Quartet (also referred to in Spanish as Palatino or Coral): they comprise 2 violins, a viola and a cello.
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It was first performed on 22 November 1986 by Marcia Crayford (violin), Christopher Van Kampen and Ian Brown (piano) (brother of Iona Brown famous violinist) at Wigmore Hall. Lauricella died on 19 January 2003 in London. Upon his death, his antique Vesuvio Stradivarius (ex antonio brosa) violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1727, was left to the Italian town of Cremona. Cremona is both the birthplace of Stradivari as well as the place where the Vesuvio was created.
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O Xangô de Baker Street (1995) tells the comic story of Sherlock Holmes's visit to Brazil, invited by the Emperor Dom Pedro II, to solve the disappearance of a Stradivarius violin which becomes a hunt for a serial killer. Larry Millett has written six books and a short story featuring Holmes solving mysteries in Minnesota. Michael Mallory has written more than two dozen short stories and two novels featuring "Amelia Watson," the second wife of Dr. Watson.
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Dushkin owned two Stradivarius violins, a Guarneri del Gesù violin and a Guadagnini violin.Cozio.com He published many arrangements and transcriptions for violin and piano, for example pieces by Isaac Albéniz, Georges Bizet, Rudolf Felber (1891-1978), George Gershwin, Paul Kirman, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, Henryk Wieniawski and other composers. They are published in "Samuel Dushkin Repertoire". He was also the author of the "Grave for violin and orchestra by Johann Georg Benda", a musical hoax.
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A Stradivarius bow, The King Charles IV Violin Bow attributed to the Stradivari Workshop, is currently in the collection of the National Music Museum Object number: 04882, at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota. The Rawlins Gallery violin bow, NMM 4882, is attributed to the workshop of Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, ca. 1700. This is one of two bows (the other in a private collection in London) attributed to the workshop of Antonio Stradivari.
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Roman Totenberg (1 January 1911 – 8 May 2012) was a Polish-American violinist and educator. A child prodigy, he lived in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, before formally immigrating to the U.S. in 1938, at age 27. He performed and taught nationally and internationally throughout his life. One of Totenberg's favorite instruments was the Ames Stradivarius, which was stolen from his office in the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts after a concert in May 1980.
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Operating over the past 15 years, Dubai Holding Group have opened various stores across The UAE, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, with brands from six different countries. The first brand to join the group was the Spanish brand Stradivarius (Inditex), the women’s clothing line belonging to Inditex. Their most recent franchise is with Delvaux (company). Primarily a fashion franchiser, the Group ventured into home textiles with Zara Home in 2008, followed shortly by Flamant (company) in 2014.
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Nicolas is a violinist and performs with the theatre's small orchestra. After Lestat is abducted and made a vampire, he tries to distance himself from his mortal friends and family, but he still provides for them. He buys Nicolas an apartment and many other luxuries, such as a Stradivarius violin, with his newly acquired "coin of the realm". Nicolas is suspicious, and insists that Lestat was in fact abducted from their room at night, calling out to Nicolas.
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Flagg's violins and violas were mostly patterned after Stradivarius, although he did produce instruments patterned after Guarneri and Amati as well. Flagg used commercial oil varnish, typically orange-red or red-brown in hue. A resident of Rutland, VT, he began to use old wood recovered from local covered bridges beginning in 1933 . Having produced 150 violins and 15 violas by 1940, he ultimately produced over 200 violins and approximately 70 violas in addition to much repair work.
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He studied with Aloys Kettenus and Vincenz Lachner. After a short period as a conductor at Mannheim, he entered upon a series of concert tours (1858). He finally settled in Florence, Italy, where he was the founder and first violinist of the Florentine Quartet which was famous throughout the world at the time. During his career, Becker toured extensively, both as a solo virtuoso, and later, using a Stradivarius violin (made 1685), as a chamber music performer.
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The Ex Vatican Stradivarius is a cello crafted circa 1620 by Nicolo Amati, master to Antonio Stradivari. The instrument was originally crafted as a viola da gamba and converted into a cello by Stradivari. The filigree and paintings on the front and back of the cello were added in the 19th Century by French luthier Georges Chanot. The front depicts two angels, one on either side of the neck; one is playing a harp and the other is playing a tambourine.
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1994 - REMUS Azoitei Is a famous violinist of sec. XXIII that currently is a violin professor at the Royal Academy of Music London, known in Romanian audience for charitable and anniversary concerts given together with the Royal Household and through its evolution along the prestigious Nigel Kennedy, the Palace Hall Bucharest. 1995 - Alexandru Tomescu He is the winner of Stradivarius violin. He played with Jeunesses Musical Youth Orchestra and as a soloist in 1997 and 1998 tournaments in the USA and Japan.
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Nemtanu started studying the violin with her father, Vladimir Nemtanu, solo concertmaster of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. She then studied at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, unanimously obtaining a gold medal in violin and in chamber music. She entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1997, where she studied with Gérard Poulet and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. She won the first prize of the Maurice Ravel competition at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1998 and the third prize at the International Stradivarius Competition in 2001.
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With floor area of 87,000 m², it is the first shopping mall of its size in Serbia. Its total gross leasable area is 30,000 m². Some of the stores in the mall are: H&M;, Zara, Calvin Klein Underwear, Adidas, Sport Vision, Guess, Mango, Esprit, Oysho, Bershka, Sephora, L'occitane, Pull and Bear, Tom Tailor, Massimo Dutti, Stradivarius, Tally Weijl, Geox, Office Shoes, and others. The mall also includes 15 restaurants as well as three restaurant chains: Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's and Monument.
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In spite of his few direct pupils, Viotti was a very influential violinist. The teacher of both Pierre Rode and Pierre Baillot and an important influence on Rodolphe Kreutzer, all of whom became notable teachers themselves, he is considered the founding father of the 19th-century French violin school. He also taught Paul Alday and August Duranowski, who was an influence on Niccolò Paganini. Viotti owned a violin fabricated by Antonio Stradivari in 1709 that would eventually become known as the Viotti Stradivarius.
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The compositions consist of western classical elements being blended into a more Indian/Arabic flavor, with the addition of ethnic percussion and electronic effects. Claude Chalhoub plays on a Stradivarius from the Stradivari Society also featuring vocals from Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan. His second album Diwan exclusively in the sphere of classical music was produced by Herzog Records in collaboration with the Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig, Germany. The album offers original compositions for violin solo and orchestra with baroque and oriental sound images.
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Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex; , ; ) is a Spanish multinational clothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia in Spain. Inditex, the biggest fashion group in the world, operates over 7,200 stores in 93 markets worldwide. The company's flagship store is Zara, but it also owns the chains Zara Home, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius, Uterqüe and Lefties. The majority of its stores are corporate-owned, while franchises are mainly conceded in countries where corporate properties cannot be foreign- owned.
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Stratovarius was founded in August 1984 in Finland under the name Black Water. They went through a number of personnel, style and name changes before the band found its own voice. The founding members were Tuomo Lassila, Staffan Stråhlman, and John Vihervä. By 1985, the name had changed to Stratovarius (a portmanteau of Stratocaster and Stradivarius, which is also the name of an early Kraftwerk song), and guitarist/vocalist Timo Tolkki entered the band in December of that year, replacing Stråhlman.
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Martin Pierre Marsick, picture from a New York magazine of 1895 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick (9 March 1847 in Jupille-sur-Meuse – 21 October 1924 in Paris), was a Belgian violin player, composer and teacher. His violin was made by Antonio Stradivari in 1705 and has since become known as the Ex Marsick Stradivarius. It was the instrument of David Oistrakh from 1966–74. Marsick's nephew, Armand Marsick, the son of his brother Louis François, was a major violinist of the 20th century.
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In 2004 it acquired the wind instrument manufacturer Leblanc and placed it under Conn-Selmer. It now owns manufacturers of pianos, brasswinds, woodwinds, strings, and percussion. Brands produced under it include Steinway & Sons pianos, Bach Stradivarius trumpets, C.G. Conn French horns, Leblanc clarinets, King trombones, Ludwig snare drums, and Selmer saxophones and woodwinds. The company sells its products through a worldwide network of dealers to professional, amateur and student musicians, as well as orchestras and educational institutions, under dozens of different brand names.
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Kennedy, Michael: A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams; OUP, 1982, p.87 She owned and played one of the two Viotti Stradivarius violins. In 1916, she recorded an abridged version of the Elgar Violin Concerto with the composer conducting. Hall has been described as "perhaps the most successful woman violinist of any during the pre-war period, a truly international celebrity,” and as "a very charming woman, very small and jolly and with a great sense of humour.
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His only daughter was the actress Gražina Jakavičiūtė- Grimalauskaitė Šaltenienė, remembered by her performances at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. His son Donatas Bronislovas Jakavičius-Grimalauskas was a brilliant violinist who delighted with his Stradivarius in the best orchestras in the world, including Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Kaunas Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (considered as the best symphony orchestra in the world), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Venezuela National Symphony Orchestra.
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One form of the tree called (Hazel-spruce) grows in the European Alps and has been recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. This form was used by Stradivarius for instruments. (see German Wikipedia for details). Norway spruce shoot tips have been used in traditional Austrian medicine internally (as syrup or tea) and externally (as baths, for inhalation, as ointments, as resin application or as tea) for treatment of disorders of the respiratory tract, skin, locomotor system, gastrointestinal tract and infections.
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Stern traveled to Prague to prepare his performance under Dvořák's supervision. By early March, all was agreed, and the premiere took place on 19 March in Queen's Hall, London, with Dvořák conducting. The cello played by Stern was the 1684 "General Kyd", one of only about 60 cellos made by Stradivarius. After the London performance, Stern again played the solo part in what may have been the second public performance, in Prague on 11 April 1896, and later again in London.
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Broken only by his military service during the First World War, Klingler's teaching career at the UdK lasted more than 30 years, concluding in 1936. Along with performing and teaching, he also turned his talents to composition, producing songs, chamber music and a violin concerto in E-major which he premiered with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1907. He also succeeded in getting hold of a Stradivarius violin - the "De Barreau" (1714) - which many years before had been owned by Joachim.
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Along with Joan Smalls, Baldwin was also the face of Karl Lagerfeld's limited-edition North American clothing line entitled "Love From Paris". Baldwin also appeared in editorials for Glamour Magazine and Italian Vogue. In September, she took part in New York Fashion Week, walking for Tommy Hilfiger, Prabal Gurung, Jeremy Scott, Tory Burch and Matty Bovan. In London she made a personal appearance at a pre-London Fashion Week party at Stradivarius where she provided social media presence via selfies and tweets.
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He obtained a degree in Law at the Complutense University of Madrid (1965) and in Business Administration at the ICADE (1966), and later an MBA at Northwestern University. He joined the Corps of Commercial Technicians of the State in 1969. On 30 March 1970, Espinosa de los Monteros married María Eugenia de Simón y Vallarino, whom he has had 5 children with, including Beltrán, CFO of Stradivarius, and Iván (b. 1971), Vice-Secretary for Foreign Relations of the far-right party Vox.
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Cristiani was also well known for the uniqueness of her cello, a 1700 Stradivarius with her name carved into the side. Due to this engraving, the instrument eventually became known specifically as the "Cristiani", along with a general style of Stradivari cello inheriting the name. Cristiani was one of the earliest professional female musical performers of this era and began playing numerous concerts in her late teenage years. The early tours she conducted included stops at Vienna, Linz, Ratisbon, Baden-Baden, and Hamburg.
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From left, Jill, Nina, and Amy Totenberg celebrate the return of their father's Stradivarius violin in 2015. Nina Totenberg was born in New York, the eldest daughter of violinist Roman Totenberg, who was born in Poland, and Melanie (Shroder) Totenberg, who was a real estate broker. She is the widow of U.S. Senator Floyd K. Haskell (D-Colorado), whom she married in 1979. She remarried in 2000 to H. David Reines, a trauma surgeon and Vice Chairman of Surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
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After a final conversation with Jed, Carol ignites the gasoline, killing Jed, Regina and all of the remaining Saviors. She then seeks out Daryl in "Stradivarius" to ask him to watch over Henry at the Hilltop for her. Carol doesn't let on that she witnessed Henry and Daryl fight off walkers and Henry is able to convince Daryl, who he states Carol considers her best friend, to accompany them. After Eugene goes missing, Carol refuses to let Henry join the search party.
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He also found that the wood had decayed a little, to the extent that the filter plates in the pores between the wood's component tracheids had rotted away, perhaps while the wood was stored in or under water in the Venice lagoon before Stradivarius used it. Steven Sirr, a radiologist, worked with researchers to perform a CT scan of a Stradivari known as the "Betts". Data regarding the differing densities of woods used were then used to create a reproduction instrument.
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Once released, Nicki writes a stack of new plays, then demands that the coven build him a funeral pyre and hold a sabbat, else he set fire to the theatre and kill himself there. The coven abides by Nicki's wishes and organizes a sabbat for him, where he dances into the flames, committing suicide. Nicolas's prized Stradivarius violin, as well as an account of his death, are sent on to Lestat. He keeps the instrument with him and, later, plays it for Akasha.
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The Academy holds a collection of more than 200 stringed instruments from the violin family. These have been acquired for the benefit of students and recent leavers and they are maintained by the Academy's resident luthier. The collections include several instruments of the Stradivarius family, including the Rutson (1694), Kustendyke (1699), Viotti-ex-bruce (1709), Maurin (1718), and the Habeneck (1734), violas Archinto (1699), cello Marquis de Corberon-ex- Loeb (1726). Other instruments include Nicolo Amati violin (1662), Girolamo II violin (c.
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Nardelli made his acting debut in an episode of Quintuplets in 2004 as "Stradivarius Helberg". He then co-starred in Derby Stallion opposite Zac Efron and later played "Daniel" in a 2009 episode of My Name Is Earl. Nardelli began Taggart Productions and made his producing debut in 2010 with Another Happy Day. The film was directed by Sam Levinson (director Barry Levinson's son) and stars Kate Bosworth, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Burstyn, Ellen Barkin and George Kennedy.
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A wealthy patron, Edward Schafer, a member of the New York Stock Exchange, gave Elias a Rougemont Stradivarius with a Tourte bow as a gift. Schafer had originally purchased the violin from the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, of 113 West Fortieth Street, for $16,000 together with the bow for $850. Elias and the violin were inseparable for the next ten years. When the stock market crashed in 1929, Elias returned the violin to his benefactor to help him pay his debts.
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The Muntz Stradivarius is an antique violin crafted by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644–1737) in 1736. The label affixed to this instrument bears the inscription, “d'anni 92” (92 years old), possibly handwritten by Stradivari himself. It has also been suggested that Count Cozio di Salabue, a subsequent owner, made this inscription. The Muntz which has a solid reputation for its excellent condition and tonal quality, takes its name from a man who owned it in the late 19th century, H. M. Muntz.
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Limey and the rest of Frankie's old gang try to persuade Heifetz to come, but they are turned away without seeing him. Limey steals Heifetz's Stradivarius violin as a present for Frankie, unaware of its great value. When Frankie tries to return it, he is detained by the police but refuses to talk to anyone but Heifetz. When Heifetz shows up at the police station to collect his instrument, Frankie is able to persuade him to perform at the concert.
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He performed the solo part on John Corigliano's Oscar-winning soundtrack to the film The Red Violin and was featured in Ladies in Lavender. Bell also appeared in the movie Music of the Heart, with other notable violinists. Bell's instrument is the Gibson ex Huberman, a Stradivarius made in 1713 during what is known as Stradivari's "Golden Era". This violin was stolen twice from its previous owner, Bronisław Huberman; the last time the thief confessed to the act on his deathbed.
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The Kroyt family settled in a house in Northwest Washington, D.C. where they became known for their soirées which were attended by prominent musicians and political figures. Kroyt and his wife and daughter became naturalized U.S. citizens in 1944 and lived in the United States for the rest of their lives. Kroyt owned and played a Deconet viola. When the Budapest String Quartet took up residence at the Library of Congress, the library additionally loaned Stradivarius instruments to all its members.
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The Hellier Stradivarius has had a convoluted ownership history. It seems to have been in the possession of the Hellier family from the beginning of the 18th century. Samuel Hellier, High Sheriff of Staffordshire 1745, probably brought the violin to England. However, two Cremona violins are first mentioned in the will of his uncle in 1719Will of John Hellier, Merchant of Westminster, Probate 26 Jun 1719, National Archives PCC and all formed part of a longstanding collection that was kept in the family until 1880.
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She has recorded the complete solo sonatas and partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach, and twice recorded the Sibelius Violin Concerto. She plays a 1718 Stradivarius believed to have been formerly owned by Louis Spohr, and also by Regina Strinasacchi, for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Sonata in B-flat, K. 454. She has been Artistic Director and chair of the faculty at the Steans Institute for Young ArtistsNew England Conservatory of the Ravinia Festival since 1993. She was a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet.
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Salvatore Accardo playing during his prize-giving of "Premio Leonardo" and "Qualità Italia", Palazzo del Quirinale, Roma (Italy), 21/9/2000 Salvatore Accardo (; Knight Grand Cross born 26 September 1941 in Turin, northern Italy) is an Italian violinist and conductor, who is known for his interpretations of the works of Niccolò Paganini. Accardo owns one Stradivarius violin, the "Hart ex Francescatti" (1727) and had the "Firebird ex Saint-Exupéry" (1718). Salvatore Accardo 1968, photo dedicated on first of three acclaimed Southern Africa tours organised by Hans Adler.
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But suddenly the police arrested him: It had been established that the alleged Stradivarius was a fake! Elisabeth Molander, the artist's sister, then goes to her secret fiancé, the young public prosecutor Holk, who is working on the "Molander case". While she offers Holk to break off the engagement because of this "scandal", he wants to resign from this case as a public prosecutor in order not to get into a conflict of interest. Elisabeth then turns to her fiancé's father, the old Attorney General Holk.
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288x288px Since October 2018, Corberó is the ambassador of the Fiorever collection by Bvlgari. She's been the face of several brands over the years such as Tampax (2011 and 2014), Stradivarius (2014), Maybelline (from 2015 to 2017), Calzedonia (2015) and Falabella (2019). She created the Harajuku collection for the eyewear brand Multiopticas in 2018. The actress is considered a "fashion icon" and created the buzz with her Teresa Helbig's dress, which featured an impressive lateral opening that showed her leg, at the 30th Goya Awards.
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Bilan was joined on stage by figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, who performed on a mobile ice rink placed on stage specifically for the Russian performance, and violinist Edvin Marton, who performed with a Stradivarius. Russia qualified from the first semi-final, placing 3rd and scoring 135 points. During the winners' press conference following the conclusion of the first semi-final broadcast, Russia was drawn to perform 24th in the final following Serbia and preceding Norway. Russia won the 2008 Contest placing 1st and scoring 272 points.
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In 1917 Igino Sderci was introduced through his brother to Leandro Bisiach, who recognized the young man's skills and took him under his wing. Under Leandro's guidance, Igino refined his skills working with the Bisiachs until Leandro's departure back to Milan in 1922. Igino Sderci moved to Florence shortly after to establish his own workshop. Archivio Storico del Comune di Siena Igino Sderci copied the models of Stradivarius and Guarneri and reflected their influence as his instruments are full of character and made with utmost care.
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Enescu's letter crossed in the post with an acknowledgment of the manuscript's safe arrival, written on 17 June 1953 by Edward N. Waters, Assistant Chief of the Music Division . This autograph score contains a number of further small adjustments which may have been made as late as the spring of that year. This version is therefore regarded as representing the composer's final thoughts on the quartet (; ; ). The parts were duly forwarded to Wolfe Wolfinsohn, leader of the Stradivarius Quartet, who received them in July 1953.
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They find shelter for the evening. During the night, Luke scavenges from junk in the building, alerting Michonne, and when he emerges with an object, she slashes it in two. He reveals that the object was a rare Stradivarius violin, one he had found earlier in their group's travels and states that he believes that by bringing art and music back, they will be able to overcome the walkers. They prepare to set out the next morning, but a walker horde has surrounded the building.
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They had three separate ceremonies, the first a Native American ceremony, followed by a Catholic ceremony, and later a third ceremony conducted by a federal court judge. Gahan, while performing the Orpheum circuit was set up by the theatre manager in Chicago. During a sound check before the performance, a stage hand called him to the telephone, he set his valuable Stradivarius down on a box, went into the flies, picked up a dead phone, and when he returned the violin was gone. It broke his heart.
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He never played as well again. After Gahan’s Stradivarius was stolen, he sank into a deep depression. His first cousin Walter Huston wired to tell him to "get down here to New York, there’s this thing called Vaudeville" Gahan joined Walter and his wife at their boarding house in Niagara Falls, and began performing in Vaudeville. Eventually Walter Huston and his wife found their way out west and Walter once again wired cousin" Oscar" to "Get out to Hollywood, there’s this thing called talking pictures".
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Phillips of London, Important Musical Instruments Auction Catalogue, 19 November 1996. In 1907 he was appointed Professor of violin at the Royal Manchester College of Music (a post he held for many years) and became leader of the Hallé Orchestra, where he remained until 1925. In 1913 he obtained the 'Baillot-Pommereau' 1694 instrument by Antonio Stradivarius,Phillips of London, Catalogue ut supra 1996. and in September of that year performed the Violin Concerto BV 243 of Ferruccio Busoni with the Queen's Hall Orchestra under Henry Wood.
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Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume visited the workshop and upon seeing Charles' work commented "This lad is a future Stradivarius".The Strad Vol. LXVI. No. 785 September 1955 At the age of 19, Alfred Hill, also an apprentice at Mirecourt, persuaded Charles to move to London where he spent nearly 50 years working for W. E. Hill & Sons (apart from three years military service back in France), eventually becoming head of violin making and restoring. He was affectionately referred to as Papa Langonet by his colleagues.
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Norrie was prominent in New York society. He was a close friend of Lispenard Stewart, with whom he threw a 100-person dinner and evening of vaudeville before the two traveled to Mexico on vacation in 1893. Another close friend, John Rhea Barton Willing (who was Vincent Astor's uncle), left Norrie a Stradivarius violin in his will. He was also a member of the Union Club, the Calumet Club, the Racquet Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Downtown Club, the Riding Club, and the Tuxedo Club.
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Crystal Ocean is a bay horse bred at the Rothschild family's Southcourt Stud near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire. He raced in the colours of Evelyn de Rothschild and was sent into training with Michael Stoute at the Freemason Lodge Stables in Newmarket, Suffolk. He is from the fourth crop of foals sired by Sea The Stars who won the 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 2009. His other major winners have included Harzand, Taghrooda, Stradivarius and Sea The Moon.
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In 2008 it was sold to the Nippon Music Foundation for over US$10 million in a private transaction. In the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Lady Blunt was put up for charitable sale, with proceeds going to the Nippon Foundation's relief fund. Tarisio Auctions handled the sale online, raising almost £10 million (US$15.9 million), more than four times the previous auction record for a Stradivarius, held by the Molitor when it sold for US$3.6 million in 2010.
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One of Totenberg's favorite instruments was the Ames Stradivarius, which he purchased for about $15,000 in 1943 (). It was stolen from his office after a concert in May 1980. Totenberg suspected aspiring violinist Philip S. Johnson of the theft, but police at the time did not believe there was enough evidence to issue a search warrant. The instrument was recovered thirty-five years later in 2015, four years after Johnson's death, when his former wife discovered it among his effects and sought to have it appraised.
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Petillo was also friends with Croce and once repaired his Martin D-35. He also invented and promoted a line of strings for Tommy DeVito and The Four Seasons. He also performed some work for the Smithsonian Institution including a Stradivarius which arrived in an armored truck. In a 2012 book, luthier Bob Benedetto was quoted as saying "I had an advantage in 1968 when I started, because there were only a few achtop makers including Sam Koontz, Jimmy D'Aquisto, Phil Petillo, and Bill Barker".
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Bronisław Huberman (19 December 1882 - 16 June 1947) was a Jewish Polish violinist. He was known for his individualistic and personal interpretations and was praised for his tone color, expressiveness, and flexibility. The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius violin which bears his name was stolen and recovered twice during the period in which he owned the instrument. Huberman is also remembered for founding the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (then known as the Palestine Philharmonic) and thus providing refuge from the Third Reich for nearly 1,000 European Jews.
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Sodium and potassium silicate may have been used to prevent mildew, rotting and insect damage. Simone Fernando Sacconi suggested that Vernice bianca, an egg tempera varnish composed of gum arabic, honey, and egg white, may have been used. More recently, French chemist Jean-Philippe Echard and his co- workers have studied varnishes on Stradivarius violins. He reports that even when varnish is no longer visible to the human eye on the surface of older violins, it can be detected within the top layers of cells.
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They find work in a small theatre on the Boulevard du Temple, called Renaud's, where Lestat begins acting, and Nicolas plays the violin. When Lestat is kidnapped by Magnus and transformed into a vampire, he hides from Nicki, seeking to conceal his dark nature. He attempts to watch over Nicki from afar, sending him expensive gifts, such as a Stradivarius violin, and buying him a new apartment. Believing that Lestat has abandoned him in spite of the numerous gifts, Nicolas sinks into a deep depression.
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Rostropovich playing the Duport Stradivarius at the White House in 1978 Rostropovich fought for art without borders, freedom of speech, and democratic values, resulting in harassment from the Soviet regime. An early example was in 1948, when he was a student at the Moscow Conservatory. In response to the 10 February 1948 decree on so- called 'formalist' composers, his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich was dismissed from his professorships in Leningrad and Moscow; the 21-year-old Rostropovich quit the conservatory, dropping out in protest.Wilson: p.
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Speyer owned violins by Stradivarius and Giuseppe Guarneri, used by his wife in public and private performances. Following financial problems experienced by Robert Newman, Speyer held the position of chairman of the Queen's Hall Concert board from 1902 to 1914, paying £2,000 per year () to underwrite the Promenade Concerts. Speyer increased rehearsal time for the Queen's Hall Orchestra and was involved in the challenge to the deputy system then operating, stopping musicians from sending under-prepared substitutes to perform in their places.Langley 2007, p. 5.
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Tom Cavanagh goes in search of the most misunderstood, the best and the tiniest to learn what it takes to stand out in a collection of 142 million objects. Paul Rhymer discusses the art of taxidermy with Tom before Cavanagh heads over to the National Museum of American History for a unique test. In a "cello challenge" Cavanagh has to identify the difference in sound between an ordinary cello and that of a 300-year-old Stradivarius, one of the finest instruments in the world.
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The instrument will be displayed in the York Gate Collections, the Academy's free museum and research centre. The Viotti ex-Bruce will be heard as well as seen: the instrument will be played sparingly, under very controlled circumstances, at research events and occasional performances elsewhere. As one of the greatest virtuoso violinists of his day, Viotti was very influential in the field of instrumental technique. His advocacy of Stradivarius violins was also key to the recognition of their maker as the foremost of all luthiers.
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He later sold his previous violin, the Tom Taylor Stradivarius,"Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, c. 1732, the 'Tom Taylor'" , accessed October 2, 2013 for a little more than $2 million and bought the Gibson ex Huberman for a little under the $4 million asking price. The 2013 documentary The Return of the Violin tells the story of the instrument's theft, return, and subsequent acquisition by Bell. Bell's first recording made with the Gibson ex Huberman was Romance of the Violin for Sony Classical Records in 2003.
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Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi (c. 1714 – 1787) was a master luthier who was active in the Italian 18th century during the golden age of stringed instrument making. Landolfi is considered among the half dozen finest stringed instrument makers in history, along with Stradivarius and Guarneri del Gesu and Pietro Guarneri. Instruments created centuries ago by Landolfi and his fellow Italian luthiers have not been improved upon despite modern technology and are still played by the finest violinists and violists in the great concert halls across the world.
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Jessica Linnebach (born 1983 in Edmonton, Alberta)Young Alberta violinist Jessica Linnebach wins Sylva Gelber Foundation Award is a Canadian classical violinist. She is a founding member of the Zukerman Chamber Players, as well as the Associate Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Linnebach plays the Taft Stradivarius (1700) on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.Jessica Linnebach Since her solo debut at the age of seven, Linnebach has performed with top orchestras, including those of Philadelphia, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver.
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Its music obviously tended towards the ecclesiastical. In early gatherings, Purcell's setting of the Te Deum and Jubilate was a regular part of the repertoire until 1784, and Handel dominated 18th-century programmes with oratorios such as Alexander's Feast, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus and Messiah. Sir Samuel Hellier, guardian of the Hellier Stradivarius, was a "prominent figure".The British Institute of Organ Studies. BIOS Reporter Volume 28, number 4, page 15. October 2004. Haydn's The Creation was heard first in the festival of 1800. From 1840, Mendelssohn's Elijah was performed every year until 1930.
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Bond confronts Holmes about the latter's drug addiction and accuses Watson of being the source of Holmes's narcotics supplier. Once Holmes admits it, Bond aims his Walther PPF [sic] at Watson and announces that Watson is an imposter and none other than Bond's arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the man who killed Bond's bride. Holmes throughout the meeting has been fiddling his Stradivarius - much to everyone's annoyance - and brings it crashing down, knocking Bond's gun away. Holmes plunges a needle containing morphine into M's arm, quickly rendering him unconscious.
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The prominent stores are similar to that of Belgrade mall: Nike, Zara, Mexx, Marks & Spencer, Tommy Hilfiger, Mango, Esprit, Oysho, Bershka, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius, Tally Weijl, Geox, Nine West, Guess, NewYorker, Office Shoes, and more. What Podgorica mall is lacking is international food chains, so there is no Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald's, but there is a Costa Coffee outlet. The mall also features some local brands of fast food restaurants. Mall also features a Cineplexx 6 screen multiplex cinema, and largest supermarket in Montenegro, Super Maxi.
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In 1962, she and Isaac Stern, Zino Francescatti and Nathan Milstein appeared in a memorial concert for violinist Fritz Kreisler. Along with the Guadagnini violin, Morini also played the "Davidov" Stradivarius violin from the year 1727, named for the Russian cellist Karl Davydov. Morini’s father had purchased it for her in Paris in 1924 for $10,000. Harold C. Schonberg, music critic of The New York Times, once described Miss Morini as "probably the greatest woman violinist who ever lived," though that notion was not one that pleased her.
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Tetzlaff plays a contemporary violin by Stefan-Peter Greiner which he has had since 2002, preferring it to his previous Stradivarius instrument. He uses a Peccatte bow, and Vision strings by Thomastik-Infeld in Vienna.BBC television interview, 22 July 2005 He eschews routinely playing the violin with the full, lyrical sound preferred by many of his contemporaries, telling The New Yorker: "The listener loses the ear for the most beautiful sounds if they've been used for arbitrary, non-important things". This approach has occasionally left Tetzlaff open to criticism.
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Kohner used the earnings from his banking and other businesses to buy an estate of 28.000 acres near Szolnok, Hungary, with the goal of transforming it into a model farm and university study center. Professors and students from the Agrarian University of Budapest used this land as an experimental laboratory and it ultimately became one of the most avant-garde farming system of all time.Alessandra Farkas: Pranzo di Famiglia, Sperling&Kupfer; Editori, 2006 Kohner was also a talented musician. He plays the cello and had a vast collection of Stradivarius and Guarneri violins.
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This instrument had disadvantages as well, however. The cello's light sound was not as suitable for church and ensemble playing, so it had to be doubled by organ, theorbo or violone. Around 1700, Italian players popularized the cello in northern Europe, although the bass violin (basse de violon) continued to be used for another two decades in France. Many existing bass violins were literally cut down in size to convert them into cellos according to the smaller pattern developed by Stradivarius, who also made a number of old pattern large cellos (the 'Servais').
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Edvin Marton, Dima Bilan and Evgeni Plushenko performing "Believe". On 20 May 2008 Bilan sang in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, and the song was voted into the final by public vote. It was performed 24th out of 25 songs in the final on 24 May 2008. The Russian figure skater, Olympic gold medalist and three- time world champion Evgeni Plushenko, skated on artificial ice on stage as part of the song performance, while the Hungarian composer and violinist Edvin Marton played his Stradivarius.
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Léon Reynier (11 August 1833, in Saint-Cloud – 5 May 1895, in Paris) was a well known and greatly appreciated French virtuoso violinist. He is said to have been presented by Napoleon III with a richly varnished 1681 orange- reddish Stradivarius. A pupil of Lambert Massart, he was awarded first prize in 1848 at the Conservatoire de Paris. From 1875-1879 he became one of the musicians in the French chamber music society La Trompette founded in 1860, along with Léon Hollander (2nd violin), Benjamin Godard (viola) and Jules Delsart (violoncello).
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Watson, who was the daughter of Western Union president Hiram Sibley, recognized Hochstein's talent and took it upon herself to fund his further education both at home and abroad. With Watson as benefactor, Hochstein studied under Otakar Ševčík in Vienna and later Leopold Auer in Saint Petersburg. By 1914, Watson had prevailed upon George Eastman, the photography magnate who was Rochester's most influential philanthropist and artistic patron, to loan a pair of violins to Hochstein. One of the violins was a 1715 Stradivarius; the other was a 1735 Landolfi.
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Born in the United States and raised in Europe, Yoo began playing the violin at the age of 4 and made her concerto debut aged 8. She attended the International School of Brussels, prior to becoming a student of Ana Chumachenco in the Excellence Bachelor Programme at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Augustin Dumay in the Artist Diploma Programme at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Zakhar Bron, Leonid Kerbel and Berent Korfker. Yoo plays the 1704 “Prince Obolensky” Stradivarius, generously lent to her by a private collector.
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The main vehicular drop-off is provided on the western side, with taxi stations on the first basement, accessed from the lower, eastern road. The high-end mall consists high-end and international fashion brands such as Stuart Weitzman, Joseph (UK), Calvin Klein, Bershka, Stradivarius, Uniqlo, Forever 21, Topman, and Topshop. Other tenants include Crate & Barrel, Ramen Nagi, Todd English Food Hall Manila, and Fitness First Platinum. It also featured two regular cinemas equipped with Dolby Atmos sound system, two Director's Club Cinemas, and an IMAX digital theater at the fourth floor.
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In 1954 he became professor of viola and chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In his recitals, he often played on the rare Stradivarius Archinto viola (1696) owned by the Royal Academy. In 1964 Forbes moved to Glasgow to take up the post of Head of Music for BBC Scotland. There he safeguarded and expanded the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, then under threat, and fostered the Scottish musical culture of the day (including traditional Scottish music, with a fiddle competition in Perth at which Yehudi Menuhin was chief adjudicator).
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In order to make available to the listening public the compositions for violin alone that were written from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, the violinist Renate Eggebrecht initiated the edition "VIOLIN SOLO" in 2002. A sequence of works already becomes evident, beginning with Max Reger’s Chaconne op. 117, over Bach's Sei Solo and extending to the present day: A compendium of the modern violin literature. Renate Eggebrecht’s violin is a Stradivarius copy by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume from 1858; her favorite bow is by Jules Fétique.
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The BBC's racing correspondent described the colt's performance as "thoroughly gutsy". After a break of two and a half months, Capri returned in the 241st running of the St Leger over fourteen and a half furlongs at Doncaster Racecourse on 16 September. The race was described as "one of the best and most competitive Legers for years". Ridden by Ryan Moore (jockey) he was made the 3/1 favourite against ten opponents including Stradivarius, Crystal Ocean, Defoe, Coronet (Ribblesdale Stakes), Venice Beach (Chester Vase), Rekindling, Raheen House (Bahrain Trophy) and Douglas Macarthur.
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The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando) houses a fine art collection of paintings ranging the 15th to 20th centuries. The academy is also the headquarters of the Madrid Academy of Art. CaixaForum Madrid is a post-modern art gallery in the centre of Madrid, next to the Prado Museum. The Royal Palace of Madrid, a massive building characterised by its luxurious rooms, houses rich collections of armours and weapons, as well as the most comprehensive collection of Stradivarius in the world.
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At its February 11, 2012, Masterworks Concert, which featured Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, the CSO performed the South Carolina premiere of a violin concerto by local composer Edward Hart, and CSO Concertmaster Yuriy Bekker played a priceless 1686 Stradivarius violin. At this concert, the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium was at 99% capacity. This concert became the highest-grossing concert in the history of the organization until a Masterworks concert on February 26 and 27, 2016, featuring pianist Sandra Wright Shen. From 2010 to 2014, Bekker served as Acting Artistic Director.
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On top of this, she has done many recordings for Naxos, including concertos and other cello works by Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Bruch, Dohnányi, Dvořák, Elgar, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, Schumann, Tavener and Tchaikovsky. She has also recorded a large volume of chamber music by Brahms, Chopin, Demus, Gubaidulina, Kodály, Mendelssohn and Schubert. She will soon be recording Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano, Haydn's cello concertos and Bach's solo cello suites. She formerly played a Stradivarius, which has become known as the ex-Gendron, for the famous French cellist Maurice Gendron.
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She continued her studies at Madrid's Real Conservatorio Superior with Víctor Martín graduating in 1995 with Extraordinary Prize. The same year she won the Sarasate prize, awarded by the Loewe Foundation and performed in concert with the composer's Stradivarius. She took part in master classes given by Mincho Minchev, Ifrah Neaman, Isabel Vilá, Lorand Fenives, Clara Flieder, Mauricio Fuks, Ruggiero Ricci, Ferenc Rados and Walter Levin. She performed as a soloist with various European orchestras conducted by Dafov, Kolarov, Keradjiev, Izquierdo, Fournet, García Asensio, Andreescu, Leaper, Encinar, Noseda, Ros Marbá and others.
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Royal Military School of Music former website The Duke decided there should be some standardisation in army music, and so formed the RMSM, with Henry Schallehn (who also became the first director of music at the Crystal Palace) as commandant. For several years in the late 19th century, the commandant was Colonel T. B. Shaw-Hellier, owner of the Hellier Stradivarius. In 1937 the school commissioned a new set of custom-made fanfare trumpets, designed by Lt-Col. Hector Adkins (Director of Music 1923-1941), along with a matching set of valved trombones.
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This latter post involved furnishing instruments (of the whole violin family) awarded to first- prize winners. Lupot was ordered by King Louis XVIII to make an orchestra of stringed instruments which were to be decorated/embellished with the coat of arms of France. He ambitiously undertook in 1820 to replace all the instruments of the royal orchestra with new ones of his own make, but death in 1824 prevented him from fulfilling this plan. He frequently received the title of "The French Stradivarius" and in Mirecourt there is a street named after him.
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Uterqüe store in Valladolid Uterqüe is a company owned by the Spanish Inditex group dedicated to manufacturing fashion accessories and garments such as scarves and sunglasses. It was formed in 2008. The offices are located in Tordera (Barcelona) in Catalonia, different from the other brands of the group which operate from Arteixo (A Coruña) in Galicia, with the exception of Massimo Dutti which also has its headquarters in Tordera and Bershka, Lefties and Oysho Stradivarius which has kept its headquarters in Barcelona where it had been founded before being bought by Inditex in 1999.
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It was sold by the Nippon Music Foundation in aid of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami appeal. In Spring 2014 the "Macdonald" viola was put up for auction through the musical instrument auction house Ingles & Hayday in conjunction with Sotheby's via silent auction with a minimum bid of $45 million. The auction failed to reach its minimum bid by 25 June 2014, and the viola was not sold. Vice magazine reported in May 2013 that "in recent years, Stradivarius investment funds have started to appear, pushing already astronomical prices even higher".
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He was also a driving force in establishing the Loan Fund for Musical Instruments to encourage young British string players. He assisted with the British contribution to the 1987 exhibition of Stradivari instruments in Cremona to commemorate the great violin maker's 250th anniversary; and in 2005 he helped the Royal Academy of Music to purchase the "Viotti ex-Bruce" Stradivarius. He was chairman of Remploy, the organisation which provides employment services for the disabled, and deputy chairman of governors of the United Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's hospitals.
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In the manga, she can also use it for astral projection, and lends it to Chibiusa while she and the other Outer Soldiers are away. Chibiusa invokes the Deep Aqua Mirror's strength and power by stating its name and is able to teleport to Sailor Neptune's location. Michiru's violin, a Stradivarius worth some five million dollars, is called the Marine Cathédrale and is named after "the temple of the sea". Aside from playing it in concert, she uses it in her third and final attack, which (like the instrument itself) has a French-inspired name: .
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The Lady of Tennant-Lafont Stradivarius is an antique violin made by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona in 1699, one year before the beginning of his so-called 'golden' period. Lady Tennant was once owned by the nineteenth century violinist, Charles Philippe Lafont, contemporary of Niccolò Paganini. After the death of Lafont, the violin was acquired by the London violin dealer W.E. Hill & Sons, who in turn sold it to Sir Charles Clow Tennant. This Scottish businessman presented the violin to his wife, Marguerite Agaranthe Miles Tennant, an amateur violinist, as a gift.
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This conviction, allied to an unwavering conviction in his own ability to improve upon the traditional methods used in manufacturing the oud, lead him in 2001 to the northern Italian city of Cremona. Joubran was under the direction of Maestro Giorgio Cè. A year later, he was awarded a special prize in the Institute of Antonio Stradivarius, for the best violin maker. He improved the model of the oud and produced instruments capable of yielding greater power of tone. In 2002, Joubran shared the stage with his brother Samir performing concerts in Europe.
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Carlos Prieto was born in Mexico City and is a Mexican cellist and writer. Mexican Cellist Carlos Prieto, Classical Performer, Musician, Author He has received enthusiastic public acclaim and won excellent reviews for his performances throughout the United States, Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Latin America. The New York Times review of his Carnegie Hall debut raved, "Prieto knows no technical limitations and his musical instincts are impeccable." He plays a Stradivarius cello named the "Piatti" after Carlo Alfredo Piatti, affectionatelly nicknamed "Chelo Prieto" by the current owner.
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The screenplay was written by Don McKellar, who also acts, and Girard, inspired by a historic 1720 Stradivarius violin nicknamed the "Red Mendelssohn". The film was shot in Austria, Canada, China, England and Italy and features a soundtrack by John Corigliano, with solos performed by violinist Joshua Bell. After premiering in the Venice Film Festival, it received some positive reviews from critics and grossed $10 million in the U.S. box office. It received numerous honours, including the Academy Award for Best Original Score and eight Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture.
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Beidas tried to raise awareness of the threat from the Zionist immigrants, and urged the Ottoman authorities to treat the Arabs fairly. Beidas established a unique library of old manuscripts, valuable books as well as a Stradivarius violin, all of which were lost, together with several of his manuscript compositions, when he was forced to flee to Beirut after the creation of Israel in 1948. Beidas did not outlive very long the loss of his country, and his library is thought to reside within the Jewish National Library at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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In 1962, the Lipinski Stradivarius was sold to Rosalind Elsner Anschuetz of New York City, for US$19,000. Anschuetz gave the violin to her daughter-in-law, Estonian violinist Evi Liivak, and upon her death in 1996, Liivak's husband, Richard Anschuetz, took possession of the instrument. After Anschuetz moved to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, the violin was stored in a local bank vault. Upon Anschuetz' death in February 2008, ownership of the violin passed to an anonymous family member, who lent the Lipinski to Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond.
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In 2019 he appeared in the BBC TV series His Dark Materials, based on the critically acclaimed book trilogy by Philip Pullman, as Father MacPhail; his daughter, Dafne, is the series' lead actress. In Spain, he has performed plays in Spanish, Traición (Betrayal) and Cuento de Invierno (The Winter's Tale) as well as directing Hamlet and Romeo y Julieta. In the musical field, he has recorded the "Seven Scenes from Hamlet" by the Spanish composer Benet Casablancas, in collaboration with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, conducted by José Ramón Encinar (Stradivarius, 2010).
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Oxford maintains a number of museums and galleries, open for free to the public. The Ashmolean Museum, founded in 1683, is the oldest museum in the UK, and the oldest university museum in the world. It holds significant collections of art and archaeology, including works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Turner, and Picasso, as well as treasures such as the Scorpion Macehead, the Parian Marble and the Alfred Jewel. It also contains "The Messiah", a pristine Stradivarius violin, regarded by some as one of the finest examples in existence.
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It would seem that to catch this cunning and cautious offender is impossible, but unexpected "help" to the investigation is offered by an empty jar of pickled mushrooms. Tikhonov and Nechayeva apprehend "Cross" and Elena is seriously injured. And in the very last moment customs delay departure of a plane from the USSR on which a foreigner is boarded who has bought the Stradivarius from "Cross", trying to take the priceless musical instrument abroad. At the same time a second story- line unfolds in the film about the great violin maker Antonio Stradivari.
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The Alard–Baron Knoop Stradivarius of 1715 is an antique violin made by luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1737). It was made during Stradivari's golden period and is regarded as the "finest of the fine," and nec plus ultra by the W.E. Hill & Sons. The Alard has the original neck with the initials "PS" found in the mortise of the head believed to be those of son, Paolo Stradivari. The Hill brothers conclude this violin is one of the instruments that came into Paolo's possession upon the death of his brother Francesco in 1742.
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Prior to the Crisis on Infinite Earths reboot, Happy Terrill is originally described as having been exposed to lightning and sunlight at the same time while ballooning, and gains energy-based super-powers. He is able to emit energy from his body, and use it to fly through the air. According to Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes, "The Ray fights the Hindu mystic Bela Jat, Cadava the Crumbler, the Mongol warrior Khan, and the pied piper of crime, Stradivarius." His post-Crisis origin is more involved.
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Stern's favorite instrument was the Ysaÿe Guarnerius, one of the violins produced by the Cremonese luthier Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù. It had previously been played by the violin virtuoso and composer Eugène Ysaÿe. Among other instruments, Stern played the "Kruse-Vormbaum" Stradivarius (1728), the "ex-Stern" Bergonzi (1733), the "Panette" Guarneri del Gesù (1737), a Michele Angelo Bergonzi (1739–1757), the "Arma Senkrah" Guadagnini (1750), a Giovanni Guadagnini (1754), a J. B. Vuillaume copy of the "Panette" Guarneri del Gesu of 1737 (c.1850), and the "ex-Nicolas I" J.B. Vuillaume (1840).
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In 1972, he founded Confecciones Goa to sell quilted bathrobes. In 1975, he opened his first Zara store with his wife Rosalía Mera. In 2009, Zara was part of the Inditex group (Industrias de Diseño Textil Sociedad Anónima), of which Ortega owned 59.29%, and aside from over 6,000 stores included the brands Zara, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Zara Home, Kiddy's Class, Tempe, Stradivarius, Pull and Bear, Bershka and has more than 92,000 employees. His public appearance in 2000, as part of the warm-up prior to his company's initial public offering on the stock market in 2001, made headlines in the Spanish financial press.
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Music in Cuba. Minneapolis MN. p162 The French government named him member of the Légion d'Honneur, and gave him a nobility title of “Baron”. In Buenos Aires he received a genuine Stradivarius, and while living in Berlin he married a German lady, was named Chamber Musician of the Emperor and received an honorary citizenship from that country. Brindis de Salas died poor and forgotten in 1911 from tuberculosis, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1930 his remains were transferred to Havana with great honors. Another outstanding Cuban violinist from the 19th century was Rafael Díaz Albertini (1857-1928).
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Howard "Sandman" Sims (January 24, 1917 – May 20, 2003) was an African- American tap dancer who began his career in vaudeville. He was skilled in a style of dancing that he performed in a wooden sandbox of his own construction, and acquired his nickname from the sand he sprinkled to alter and amplify the sound of his dance steps. "They called the board my Stradivarius," Sims said of his sandbox. From the 1950s to the year 2000, Sims was a regular attraction—a "fixture"—at Harlem's noted Apollo Theater, comedically ushering failed acts offstage with a hook, broom or other prop.
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One winter, at a funeral the specter of one of the deceased presents a large drum of Stradivarius as a gift to a drummer playing in the ensemble. Over time the drum begins to behave as an independent creature, and the drummer can no longer part with it. Because of the nightly playing on the drum he is forced to leave the hostel where he lived and go on a journey. Having crossed several borders of newly formed post-Soviet states, the drummer after contact with customs officers is left without property, with the exception of the drum.
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It is estimated that Balabushka produced between 1,000 and 1,200 cues during his lifetime. However, by the mid-1960s, forged Balabushka cues started circulating in the market, as he was already recognized as the premier cue maker of the era, referred to as "the Stradivarius of cuemakers". Balabushka and his cues achieved much wider recognition after being prominently featured in Martin Scorsese's 1986 film, The Color of Money (the sequel to the classic 1961 film The Hustler). In the film, Tom Cruise’s character, Vincent Lauria, is presented with a beautiful cue by Paul Newman's character, Fast Eddie Felson.
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He has since performed with virtually all the major orchestras in Europe, Israel and the United States under the baton of Sir Colin Davis, Yehudi Menuhin, Kurt Masur, Eliahu Inbal, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Andrew Davis and Gustavo Dudamel to name only a few. In 1976, he recorded the Bach Double Concerto with Szeryng and the Academy of St. Martin’s in the Fields, directed by Sir Neville Marriner. Hasson has been awarded the Medaille de Vermeil from the city of Paris, and refused honours from the Venezuelan government. He owned the 1727 'Benvenuti, Halphen' Stradivarius until 2005.
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She was ridden in all of her races by James Doyle. She was from the fifth crop of foals sired by Sea the Stars who won the 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 2009. His other major winners have included Harzand, Taghrooda, Stradivarius and Sea The Moon. Sea of Class's dam Holy Moon won two races in Italy and became a very successful broodmare whose other foals have included Charity Line (Oaks d'Italia, Premio Lydia Tesio), Final Score (Oaks d'Italia, Premio Lydia Tesio) and Cherry Collect (Premio Regina Elena, Oaks d'Italia).
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As the owner of the only solid gold flute (No. 1375) made, in 1869, by the great French craftsman Louis Lot, Rampal was the first internationally renowned "Man With the Golden Flute". Rumours of the survival of the 18-carat gold Lot had been circulating in France for years before the Second World War, but no one knew where the piece had gone. In 1948, almost by chance, Rampal acquired the instrument from an antiques dealer who had wanted to melt the instrument down for the gold—evidently unaware that he was in possession of the flute equivalent of a Stradivarius.
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Lorenzo Storioni (1744 — 1816) is considered one of the last of the classic Cremonese master violin makers/luthiers of the 18th century. 260px Born a generation after Stradivarius and Guarnerius, with no direct link to the great tradition, violin making made a comeback in Cremona with Lorenzo Storioni and his two followers, Giovanni Rota and Giovanni Battista Ceruti. He was influenced by makers of the previous generations such as Giovanni Battista Guadagnini and Tommaso Balestrieri, and between 1775 and 1795 manufactured a massive number of high-quality string instruments in a conventional manner. However, Storioni made some bold adjustments with his extreme creativeness.
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Giovanni Battista Ceruti (1756–1817) was an Italian violin maker, and is considered a direct link to the grand tradition of the Cremonese master violin makers/ Luthiers of the 18th century. Born a generation after Stradivarius and Guarnerius, with no direct link to the great tradition, violin making made an unlikely comeback in Cremona in the person of Lorenzo Storioni and his two followers, Giovanni Rota and Giovanni Battista Ceruti. Along with Giovanni Rota, G.B. Ceruti was a follower of Lorenzo Storioni. He was born just outside Cremona and did not take up violin making until about age 40.
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The General Kyd; ex-Stern Stradivarius is an antique cello crafted in 1684 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It was used by the English cellist Leo Stern in the premiere of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor in London in 1896. Noted owners of the General Kyd-Stern are its namesakes, General Kyd and Leo Stern, as well as Lord Amherst of Hackney, W.E. Hill & Sons and Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. At the time of Stern's death in 1904, the General Kyd was valued at US$6,000; its current value is US$9.5 million.
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Dorothy Levitt, in a 26hp Napier, at Brooklands, England, in 1908 In 1906 Dorothy Levitt broke the women's world speed record for the flying kilometer, recording a speed of 91 mph (146.25 km/h) and receiving the sobriquet the "Fastest Girl on Earth". She drove a six-cylinder Napier motorcar, a 100 hp (74.6 kW) development of the K5, in a speed trial in Blackpool.Hull, Peter G. "Napier: The Stradivarius of the Road", in Northey, Tom, ed. The World of Automobiles (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 13, p.1483.G.N. Georgano Cars: Early and Vintage, 1886–1930.
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He brought his sons William (Elizabeth's husband) and James into the import-export mercantile firm, the William Seton Company, which became Seton, Maitland and Company in 1793. The younger William had visited important counting houses in Europe in 1788, was a friend of Filippo Filicchi (a renowned merchant in Leghorn, Italy, with whom his firm traded), and brought the first Stradivarius violin to America. Shortly after they married, Elizabeth and William moved into a fashionable residence on Wall Street. Socially prominent in New York society, the Setons belonged to Trinity Episcopal Church, near Broadway and Wall Streets.
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Located in central part of the city on Pid Dubom Street. It has three floors with a total retail area 35,000 m² and underground parking for 600 cars. Shopping mall contains a cinema, leisure facilities and restaurants overlooking the city. In shopping mall representing many Ukrainian and international brands, including a Silpo supermarket and a Comfy electronics supermarket as anchor tenants, Samsung, Planeta Kino cinema, Zara, Bershka, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius, Massimo Dutti, Pierre Cardin, Oysho, Mango, LC Waikiki, Reserved, Cropp, House, Sinsay, CCC, Intertop, Colin's, Timberland, Lacoste, Pandora, Brocard, Wójcik, Intimissimi, Women'secret, Budynok Igrashok, Igroland children entertainment, Sushiya, McDonald's and others.
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A weekly market selling cheap clothing and domestic items is held on Mondays uphill from the square. Several small indoor shopping centres, most with only a few shops, exist throughout the city. The Associação Comercial dos Concelhos das Caldas da Rainha e Óbidos (ACCCRO, Commercial Association of the Municipalities of Caldas da Rainha and Óbidos), founded in 1902, promotes and supports commercial and service businesses in Caldas da Rainha and neighboring Óbidos. Several international chains have locations in Caldas da Rainha, including Benetton, Bershka, Claire's, Kiddy's Class, Mango, McDonald's, Oysho, Pull and Bear, Staples, and Stradivarius.
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The company was founded in 1983 by violinist and luthier Dimitri Musafia, who studied violin making at the Stradivari Institute. Musafia's objective was to create a violin case which focused primarily on instrument safety and aesthetics. After experimenting with variety of different materials over several years, a "specially-milled wood laminate" emerged as the preferred choice for the basis of construction, satisfying the requirements for both instrument safety and portability. Since then, Musafia cases have been the preferred choice for some of the most famous and expensive violins in the world, including Guarneris and the 1715 Stradivarius "Cremonese", previously played by Joseph Joachim.
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" The construction of the "Balfour" Stradivarius was an attempt of good effort but not entirely convincing: "The purfling is ebony, an obvious sign rhat the violin could not be a genuine Stradivari. Another error which they petpetrared on this and most of their instruments is the short scarfed joint in the purfling on, or just beside, the centre joint at both ends of the back. Cremonese instruments generally have a longer overlapping mitre placed well away from the centre line. The typical Cremonese-style pins are present however, at each end of the back, half covered by the puifling itself.
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Music in Cuba. Minneapolis MN. p162 The French government named him member of the Légion d'Honneur, and gave him a nobility title of "Baron". In Buenos Aires he received a genuine Stradivarius, and while living in Berlin he married a German lady, was named Chamber Musician of the Emperor and received an honorary citizenship from that country. Brindis de Salas died poor and forgotten in 1911 from tuberculosis, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1930 his remains were transferred to Havana with great honors. Another outstanding Cuban violinist from the 19th century was Rafael Díaz Albertini (1857–1928).
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In 2015, the contracts of the Elecnor and TSK companies were signed with the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research for the construction and implementation of a strategic renewable energy pilot project in Al Shagaya, as well as two important contracts in the petrochemical sector of which Tecnicas Reunidas is a beneficiary (Al Zur Refinery and 5th Gas Train of the port of Ahmadi). The presence of companies in the fashion sector (Zara, Women's Secrets, Cortefiel, Adolfo Domínguez, Rosa Clará, Maximo Dutti, Oysho, Mango, Stradivarius, among many others) or the distribution sector (ALDEASA has the concession of distribution) Duty-free stores in Kuwait airport).
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Across his career Vengerov has earned numerous awards including the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra) (2003), two Gramophone Classical Music Awards (1994, 1995), a Classic Brit Award (2004), five Edison Classical Music Awards (1995, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2004), two Echo Music Prizes (1997, 2003), and a World Economic Forum Crystal Award (2007). In addition, he has earned fellowships and honors from the Royal Academy of Music, an Honorary Visiting Fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford, and orders of merit from Romania and the German state of Saarland. Vengerov currently performs on the 1727 "ex-Kreutzer" Stradivarius violin.
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A quartet of A. E. Smith instruments is held by the National Museum of Australia, Canberra,AE Smith instruments, National Museum of Australia and a violin at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. The cello of the quartet held by the National Museum of Australia can be heard played by cellist David Pereira on an audio file.National Museum of Australia, Audio on demand: AE Smith Instruments collection His violas are his most sought after instruments, and their rarity have led to a steady increase in monetary value. His violas favored two models: the Brescian Model and the MacDonald Stradivarius model.
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Both violins were played in each of four selections of music by violinist Dalibor Karvay behind a screen to an audience of 600, from which 463 votes were counted (160 trained musicians and 303 regular concert goers). This was the first public comparison of a Stradivari with a contemporary instrument before a large audience where the audience would cast ballots on the performance quality of each violin. The consensus was that Nagyvary's instrument surpassed the Stradivarius in each category by a small margin. Such curtained showcases have been conducted numerous times during the 19th and 20th centuries, and continue in the 21st.
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Lavinia recognizes the fungus on Elena and says it was found on logs during the 18th century, with the wood being used to make Stradivarius violins. Kate, resolving that the only way to rid the house of the curse is to use Paganini's piece as a weapon, plays the melody on her violin. However, when they attempt to escape the house, they find that the invisible barrier is still in place. Kate decides the curse could be lifted by playing the piece backwards, but when Kate attempts this, the sheet music electrocutes Lavinia and flies out of her hands, bursting into flames.
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The Kiesewetter Stradivarius of circa 1723 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644–1737). The instrument derives its name from its previous owner, German composer and violinist Christophe Gottfried Kiesewetter (1777–1827). In 2006, the Stradivari Society brokered an agreement between Clement and Karen Arrison, current owners of the Kiesewetter, and a Grammy-nominated Russian violinist, Philippe Quint. Stipulated in the contract, Quint was to retain possession of the violin for one year in exchange for its US$6,000 insurance premium, the performance of three private recitals for the Arrisons, and regular inspections by The Society's curators.
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Chen won the Newcomer Award in the 2011 Echo Klassik Awards. He was invited to perform at the annual Nobel Prize Concert in 2012, playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto in G minor with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. In April 2016, he was the youngest juror ever of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in London, with Pamela Frank, Joji Hattori, Martin Engstroem, Ning Feng, Julia Fischer, Dong- Suk Kang, Tasmin Little and Jeremy Menuhin.2016 Jury, Menuhin Competition After the short-term loan of "Huggins", he was lent the 1715 "Joachim" Stradivarius from the Nippon Music Foundation until 2019.
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He went on to win prizes at the Hannover International Violin Competition, Queen Elisabeth Competition, and Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, and was First Prize winner of the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand). In 2006 he was awarded first prize in the Paganini Competition. In 2012, he founded the Dragon Quartet, in which he plays first violin, and he performs regularly with this ensemble, as well as with major local and international orchestras. Ning Feng plays a 1721 Stradivarius violin, known as the "MacMillan", on private loan, kindly arranged by Premiere Performances of Hong Kong.
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The Tom Taylor was played by Joshua Bell, who later sold it for $2 million to pay for his current instrument: the Gibson Stradivarius. The current owner is unknown, access date 2013-10-14 and possibly is Mark Steinberg of the Brentano String Quartet, either loaned by Yale Collection of Musical Instruments of the Yale School of Music (Connecticut), or by Mannes School of Music (New York), where he teaches.Mark Steinberg, Yale School of Music The Tom Taylor was previously owned by Patricia Travers (from 1938 to 1954, which was sold to a benefactor who loaned it to California State University, Northridge).
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Stradivarius began his second season in handicap races. Over ten furlongs Beverley Racecourse on 19 April he carried a weight of 131 pounds and won "readily" by six lengths from Election Day. At Chester Racecourse in May he was assigned 133 pounds for a handicap over one and a half miles and was beaten half a length by Here And Now,to whom he was conceding 13 pounds. At Royal Ascot on 23 June, the colt was stepped up in class and distance to contest the Group 2 Queen's Vase over 14 furlongs in which he was partnered by Andrea Atzeni.
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In 1924, she began touring internationally with the pianist, Josef Hofmann, and when he was subsequently appointed to the Directorship of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1927, he invited her to join the violin department, a post she held until 1947. After one of Luboshutz’s Carnegie Hall appearances, another wealthy patron, Aaron Naumburg, purchased a Stradivarius violin for her (the so-called “Nightingale”). Her students included a concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra (Rafael Druian), seven members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and numerous others who went on to successful careers. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Curtis Institute of Music in 1953.
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Her talent has been recognised by a number of prestigious organisations, including the Nippon Foundation, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust (who awarded her a Fellowship in February 2008), the Orpheum Stiftung zur Förderung Junger Solisten (Zurich), the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben (Hamburg) and the Jürgen-Ponto Stiftung (Frankfurt). She won the first prize at the 2003 Yfrah Neaman International Competition in Mainz, and was awarded Audience Awards by the patrons of the Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals. She is a current member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, finishing in 2012. Veronika Eberle plays the "Dragonetti" Stradivarius (1700), on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
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Brandt pp 86–88 In 1939 they again had good results in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Norway and Britain but not in Spain and Italy, where fascism reigned and people were consequently more concerned with political issues. From the U.S., the group was commissioned to play five Stradivarius string instruments which needed regular use as part of the instrument collection at the Washington Library of Congress. These instruments had been purchased and donated by longtime influential contributor Gertrude Clarke Whittall. The recital hall on the grounds of the Library had been built in 1925 with funding donated by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, a major benefactress of chamber music and of several music festivals.
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He is considered one of Mr. Gingold's best students. Since winning the First Prize of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1985, Hu Nai-Yuan has appeared on many of the world's stages, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Avery Fisher Hall in New York City and major venues in London, Paris, Brussels, Munich, and other cities in Europe, North and South Americas and Asia. In praise of his playing, BBC Music Magazine wrote, “Taiwanese violinist Nai-Yuan Hu is an awesomely capable performer whose technical facility, musical intelligence and unfaltering verve place him among the higher echelons of today’s string virtuosi.” He plays the Ex-Hubay Stradivarius.
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William A. Clark House in New York City Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist William A. Clark, who was nearly as wealthy as John D. Rockefeller in his day. Clark was a controversial senator, builder of railroads, namesake for Clark County, Nevada, and the founder of Las Vegas. Huguette grew up in the largest house in New York City, the William A. Clark House at 952 Fifth Avenue, which was unimaginably luxurious with 121 rooms for a single family of four. She owned paintings by Edgar Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, and a vast collection of antique dolls.
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Carl Fredrick Becker (also known as Carl F. Becker and Carl Becker Jr.) (1919 – January 30, 2013) was an American luthier and restorer, known for restoring the “Lady Blunt” 1721 Stradivarius violin. He had the reputation of “one of America's finest violin makers” and “the dean of American violin-making”. Carl F. Becker was a founding member of both the International Association of Violin and Bow Makers (Entente Internationale des Luthiers et Archetiers) and the American Federation of Violin and Bowmakers. Several important American luthiers trained under his guidance including Peter Beare, Eric Benning (of Benning Violins), Charles Rufino, Sebastian Zens and Samuel Zygmuntowicz.
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The article, entitled "Famous Fiddler in Disguise Gets $5.61 in Curb Concerts," showed commuters displaying the same disinterest as Weingarten described in his article. It turns out Joshua Bell had owned that same Stradivarius violin for over 10 years. In 2010, Weingarten was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his Washington Post story, "Fatal Distraction," "his haunting story about parents, from varying walks of life, who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars." Weingarten said he had a lucky break when his daughter was younger when he almost left her behind in the car when they lived in Florida.
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It was first performed on 11 August 1957, at the Prinzregententheater, Munich, conducted by the composer. A truncated monaural recording of the opera appeared on the Stradivarius label, but a complete recording of the work had to wait until the digital era, when Marek Janowski conducted the entire opera for the Wergo label (see section Recordings). Hindemith proponent Yan Pascal Tortelier has also openly expressed an interest in conducting a recording of the opera. Due to Kepler's association with his home town of Linz, Austria, performances of the opera were scheduled at the Landestheater Linz beginning on April 8, 2017 and continued for several performances into June, 2017.
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The flat racing season in Britain and Ireland was restructured as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak and the Coronation Cup was run behind closed doors at Newmarket on 5 June. With Moore in the saddle Anthony Van Dyck started at odds of 11/2 and stayed on well after looking outpaced three furlongs out to take second place behind Ghaiyyath with Stradivarius in third. Two weeks later the colt started favourite for the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot but never looked likely to win and came home fifth of the nine runners behind the filly Fanny Logan, beaten five lengths by the winner.
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The episode was directed by former cast member Michael Cudlitz "Stradivarius" is the directorial debut of Michael Cudlitz, who had played Abraham Ford from seasons 4 through 7 on the show. Cudlitz said that, after his casting, he had spoken to Scott Gimple about the potential to direct episodes in the future. Cudlitz had been in line to direct episodes of Southland, a previous series he had starred in before The Walking Dead, but the show was cancelled before he could get his chance. Cudlitz and Gimple discussed this possibility during his time on the show, and Cudlitz made mention of this again after his departure.
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Not long after, in the fall of 1853, she began a new trek across the Siberian wilderness to the Kamchatka Peninsula for another tour in the region, being the first European to give public concerts in the remote cities of the North Asian continent. Her original plan was to finish in Kamchatka and then head to the Caucasus for another concert tour. Before that, she performed in the small town of Tobolsk, but resulted soon after with a case of cholera and had to stay in the village where she died on October 24, 1853. The 1700 Stradivarius cello that she played was later obtained by Hugo Becker.
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A review in the German Scala magazine stated: Kameda “sounds like Heifetz”, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung exclaiming that he is “miraculous”. In Japan, the music journal Ongaku no Tomo wrote that he has an “amazing sound”; in the United States, the Salt Lake City Deseret News “mesmerizing performance”.Deseret News, Classical violinist shines in Olympiad Feb. 15, 2002 He is “one of the best in this orbit”, El Dia of Mexico, in Brasil Zero Hora “his Stradivarius turned into a Magic Violin”, in Israel “..even among the brilliant and promising, there is one outstanding” and “genius violinist” the Yedhiot Ahronot newspaper wrote after his performance with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Hilary Hahn, violin; Valentina Lisitsa, piano (2009) Her violin is an 1864 copy of Paganini's Cannone made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. In an interview on Danish television Hahn said she almost never leaves her instrument out of sight. She uses bows by American bow maker Isaac Salchow and French bow makers Émile Ouchard, Paul Jombar, and Emil Miquel. For her strings, she uses Thomastik-Infeld Dominants for the A (aluminum wound), D and G (silver wound) and a Pirastro Gold Label Steel E. Hahn has also acquired a second Vuillaume, an 1865 model loosely based on the 1715 Alard Stradivarius, and has used both in recent years for recording and performing.
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Harrell previously played a 1720 Montagnana cello he bought with the proceeds of his parents' estate and also a 1673 Antonio Stradivarius cello that belonged to the late British cellist Jacqueline du Pré. His last instrument was a 2008 cello by Christopher Dungey. From 1985 to 1993 he held the International Chair for Cello Studies at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London and in 1993 he became Principal of the RAM, a post he held until 1995. On April 7, 1994, he appeared at the Vatican with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gilbert Levine in the Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah.
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Among the many other prizes that followed were the Sylva Gelber Foundation Award from the Canada Council for the Arts, and in 2003 the Council's Musical Instrument Bank decided to go further and award him the "1689 Baumgartner Stradivarius". In 2010, he received the prestigious Virginia-Parker Prize, one of Canada's highest cultural distinctions. Winner of many national and international first prizes, including the International Violin Competition Pablo Sarasate, Alexandre Da Costa has given close to two thousand concerts and recitals throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. He has performed the major halls of Vienna (Musikverein), Berlin (Philharmonie), New York (Carnegie Hall), Beijing (Poly-Theater) and beyond.
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After the race Michael Stoute said "He is a horse we've always liked and Ryan has always liked him too... He is very adaptable". The 241st running of the St Leger over fourteen and a half furlongs at Doncaster Racecourse on 16 September was described as "one of the best and most competitive Legers for years". After being restrained by his rider Jim Crowley in the early stages he stayed on strongly to finish second to Capri with Stradivarius and Rekindling in third and fourth. In the 2017 World's Best Racehorse Rankings Crystal Ocean was rated the 90th best racehorse in the world with a rating of 118.
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Currently, Fischer plays a Guadagnini 1742 purchased in May 2004, and also a violin by Philipp Augustin 2011, which she has owned since 2012., by Frank Elstner, SWR German television, playing Augustin violin] For four years prior to that, she had been using a Stradivarius, the 1716 Booth, on loan from Nippon Music Foundation, an instrument that had previously belonged to Iona Brown. She usually uses a Benoît Rolland bow, but sometimes a copy of the Heifetz Tourte by the Viennese maker Thomas Gerbeth for early Classical period music. Fischer said in August 2010:Interview of Julia Fischer by Olivier Bellamy in August 2010, translated in English, original in French.
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The film was inspired by one of the violins of Antonio Stradivari, the 1721 Red Mendelssohn, which features a unique red stripe on its top right side. By the time the film was made, the Red Mendelssohn was owned by Elizabeth Pitcairn, heiress to the PPG fortune, whose grandfather purchased it for her 16th birthday for $1.7 million at auction at Christie's London. Despite rumours and the film, the Red Mendelssohn is varnished with burgundy rather than blood. Stradivarius used red varnish on numerous other violins from 1704 to 1720, the so-called "golden period", and other red-coloured violins besides the Red Mendelssohn survive.
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He also part-owns a Montagnana cello from 1740 and a Guadagnini cello of 1745, which he played exclusively from 1979 to 1998 and part-owns with David Waterman, cellist of the Endellion Quartet. His De Munck Stradivarius was returned to the Nippon Music Foundation in May 2011. Isserlis made his debut directing from the cello in February 2008, with the Irish Chamber Orchestra at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. He has organized a number of festivals with long-term collaborators such as Joshua Bell, Stephen Hough, Mikhail Pletnev, András Schiff, Denes Varjon, Olli Mustonen and Tabea Zimmermann, and actors Barry Humphries and Simon Callow.
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The flat racing season in Europe was rearranged in response to the COVID outbreak and the Group 1 Coronation Cup was run over one and a half miles at Newmarket (rather than Epsom) on 5 June. With Buick in the saddle Ghaiyyath started the 11/10 favourite in a seven runner field which also included Stradivarius, Anthony Van Dyck, Defoe and Desert Encounter. Ghaiyyath went to the front from the start, opened up a clear advantage by half way and was never seriously challenged, coming home two and a half lengths clear of Anthony Van Dyck. The winning time of 2:25.89 was a new course record.
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Reluctant to move his young family to Palestine and an uncertain future and seeing the large number of international concerts for which the quartet were contracted, Kroyt accepted Roisman's offer. He played his first concert with the quartet on 31 August 1936 in Norway and would remain their violist until the ensemble disbanded in 1967. The Budapest String Quartet were in the United States when World War II broke out in Europe. They accepted an offer from the Library of Congress to become resident there, playing on the Stradivarius string instruments in the library's collection in an annual series of 20 concerts at the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium.
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The people applauded and he continued to spin and dance until he fell and his cello broke to pieces. To bring the evening to a happy ending was their host Jaap de Graaff, patron and protector of the arts, who decided to buy a Gagliano cello for Hermann, and a Stradivarius violin for Zekely. On a visit to Holland around 1929, Jaap de Graaff suggested for his niece Ada Weevers, who lived in Amersfoort, to go and see Hermann perform in Amsterdam, and when they met, Ada and Hermann fell in love, despite their different cultures, nationalities and religions. The young couple moved to Berlin in 1930, and they had a daughter Corrie Hermann in 1932.
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In around 1956 the cello, and around 1960 the second violin desk, was reassigned, and in this new form the Quartet continued to maintain its busy programme of performance until 1972, while also undertaking teaching positions and the coaching of younger instrumentalists. In 1957, the newly configured Quartet performed in Boston for the Peabody Mason Concert series.Boston Globe, 9-Nov-1957, George McKinnon, "Hungarian Quartet plays Beethoven and Bartok" In the 1966 issue recordings of the Beethoven cycle, it is stated that Székely plays the 'Michelangelo' Stradivarius (1718), Kuttner plays the 'Santa Theresa' Petrus Guarnerius (1704), Koromzay plays a 1766 instrument by M. Decanet, and Magyar has a cello by Alessandro Gagliano of 1706.
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'Petrocelli, Paolo.The Resonance of a Small Voice: William Walton and the Violin Concerto (2010) He was introduced to Benjamin Britten by Frank Bridge (Britten's teacher)Tarisio: Britten and Brosa and the two became great friends. Britten played his Suite for Violin and Piano with Brosa at the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival held in Barcelona in 1936.Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century By Paul Kildea, 2013 In 1940 Britten consulted Brosa on the difficulties of his Violin Concerto, Op. 15. Brosa gave the first performance of the concerto at Carnegie Hall on 28 March 1940, playing on his Vesuvius Stradivarius of 1727 with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, with John Barbirolli conducting.
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As well as winning the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2015, Lim has performed with various orchestras in the world including Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Brussels Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , Munich Chamber Orchestra, Wuhan Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra , Philharmonic Orchestra of Minas Gerais, L’Orchestra National Du Capitole de Toulouse, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra amongst others. She also performed with many renowned conductors and musicians including Andras Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Alexander Shelley, David Zinman, Tugan Sokhiev, and Alexander Lazarev. She uses Stradivarius 1708 Violin “Huggins” from The Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition as a loan for four years.
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Reviewing How We Hear Music, which it "recommended warmly" for "virtually every college, university and professional music library", Choice Magazine described "Beament('s) model for the hearing of music" as "not only the most speculative section of the book but also the most brilliant". In a 1997 article for the BBC Music Magazine headlined “Smashing the Strad myth”, Beament dismissed as a myth the popular notion that the Stradivarius produces a sound superior to that produced by other violins. He also answered the question “What is a tune?” for a Q-&-A feature in The Guardian. In his later years he composed a string octet, two string sextets, and a string quintet.
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The following year, Bob put up $550,000 to buy the museum the Harrison Stradivarius violin, as a birthday tribute to Marge, and many other donations followed, the total approaching $6 million by 1991. Having now amassed the world's greatest collection, the Shrine has become the National Music Museum. In the late 1970s, the Rawlins decided to return to Southern California to retire, and acquired the last unbuilt bayfront plot on Balboa Island, Newport Beach. Having lived for two decades in a modernist "Eichler" house, they chose architect John Lautner to realise Joseph Eichler's notion of "bringing the outside in" on a waterfront plot 30 feet wide and 70 feet deep, hemmed in by other houses.
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After arriving in the US in 1965 to study clarinet, he turned to composition studies with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky, receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University in 1974. In 1988, he became the first American to win the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for musical composition. Additionally, he received the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, as well as awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Asia Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Joyce Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. In October 2007 the Del Sol String Quartet was invited to premiere the composer's Spiral X playing the Library of Congress' collection of Stradivarius instruments.
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The tools used for the event have been called the "most ridiculous modified chainsaw[s]", and are known to walk the line between performance and failure due to their homemade nature. However, as many as 99% of professional competitors don't build their own hot saw, instead buying them from specialist engineers, with 80% of saws on the American circuit built by Russ Lemke; Lemke's saws match reliability with power and have been called "the Stradivarius of its ilk" by Stihl. Several are also built and sold by event record-holder Matt Bush, who is also a talented saw-builder. Bush ran his saw at 404cc, about the highest that has been managed.
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Ignacio Fleta Pescador Huesa del Común -Teruel-(31 July 1897))Barcelona – 11 August 1977) was a Spanish luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as guitars, violins, cellos, violas, as well as historical instruments. Fleta is widely regarded as one of the foremost guitar makers in the history of the instrument and sometimes described as the Stradivarius, or Steinway, of the guitar. Born into a family of cabinet makers, he initially built string- and historical instruments, and was inspired by Andrés Segovia to focus his efforts on the guitar. During Ignacio Fleta's Golden Age, from the 1960s to the 1970s, he revolutionized the cedar top and is considered the greatest maker in that material.
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Eduardo Egüez has recorded for many labels: Astrée Auvidis, Astrée Naïve, Arcana, Glossa Music, K617, Opus 111, Alia Vox, E Lucevan le Stelle, Stradivarius, Symphonia, Alpha Records, Ambroisie, Naxos Records, Flora, Mirare, Accent Records, Harmonia Mundi France. As a soloist he has recorded “Tombeau” with works by Silvius Leopold Weiss (E Lucevan le Stelle), the complete lute works by J. S. Bach (M.A. recordings) and “Le Maître du Roi” with works by Robert de Visée (also M.A. recordings). With his own Ensemble La Chimera, he has recorded for the label M.A. recordings “Buenos Aires Madrigal” (fusion of early Italian madrigals and Argentine tango) and “Tonos y Tonadas” (fusion of early Spanish “tonos humanos” and folk music from Latin America).
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He owned the Guarneri del Gesù "Le Duc" and "Sanctae Theresiae" violins, the Stradivarius "Hercules" violin, as well as the Messiah Strad copy by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume which he gave to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. The "Le Duc" was the instrument on which he performed and recorded mostly. In December 1972 he donated the "Hercules" to the City of Jerusalem to honor the 25th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, with the stipulation that it be loaned out for the use of outstanding young Israeli violinists. He also donated the "Sanctae Theresiae" to Mexico in 1974 with a similar stipulation that it be loaned for the use of outstanding young Mexican violinists.
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The Ruckers family (variants: Ruckaert, Ruckaerts, Rucqueer, Rueckers, Ruekaerts, Ruijkers, Rukkers, Rycardt) were harpsichord and virginal makers from the Southern Netherlands based in Antwerp in the 16th and 17th century. Their influence stretched well into the 18th century, and to the harpsichord revival of the 20th. The Ruckers family contributed immeasurably to the harpsichord's technical development, pioneering the addition of a second manual; the quality of their instruments is such that the name of Ruckers is as important to early keyboard instruments as that of Stradivarius is to the violin family. In the 18th century, Ruckers instruments were often modified by French makers in a process known as ravalement, to allow for an extended range and other additions.
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The Baron Knoop, ex-Bevan Stradivarius is a violin made by the celebrated luthier Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy in 1715. The instrument is named for Baron Johann Knoop (1846–1918), a collector of dozens of great violins, violas, and cellos at one time or another including four violas representing more than a third of extant Stradivari violas. Upon the sale of the instrument to J.E. Greiner through the agency of Wurlitzer in New York, the W. E. Hill firm in London, proposed that the violin be named for their customer, Baron Knoop. Several instruments by the great master luthiers bear the sobriquet Baron Knoop, including another Stradivari of 1715, the Alard-Knoop.
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In 1976 he made his recording debut with the Elgar Cello Concerto and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which went on to receive a Silver Disc for recording sales. In 1984 he bought a Stradivarius cello, the Bonjour, which he kept to the 1990s. He has been invited to perform concertos by conductors Claudio Abbado, Antal Dorati, Sir Mark Elder, Mariss Jansons, Sir Charles Mackerras, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Sir Roger Norrington, Tadaaki Otaka, Sir Simon Rattle, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Michael Tilson-Thomas and Osmo Vanska. He has notably collaborated in chamber music with Yehudi Menuhin, Amadeus Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Leonidas Kavakos and Krystian Zimerman and with his regular duo partner pianist Heini Karkkainen.
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Stradivarius made his racecourse debut in a maiden race over eight and a half furlongs at Nottingham Racecourse on 5 October in which he started at odds of 3/1 and finished fifth of the nine runners behind Contrapposto. Two weeks later, in a similar event over one mile at Newmarket Racecourse he ran fourth behind his stablemate Cracksman. On 7 November the colt stated favourite for a one-mile maiden on the synthetic tapeta track at Newcastle Racecourse. Ridden as on his debut by Robert Havlin he led for most of the way and rallied after being headed in the closing stages to win in a blanket finish from Bowerman, Mutarabby and Lethal Impact.
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Karen Gomyo was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she started violin lessons at 5 years old. At the age of 10, she moved to New York City to study at the Juilliard School at the invitation of the legendary pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. At 15, Gomyo won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, launching her international career as soloist and chamber musician. Besides her work with the esteemed orchestras, venues, and colleagues around the world, Gomyo has participated in a 2014 documentary film about Antonio Stradivarius called "The Mysteries of the Supreme Violin", in which she is violinist, guide, and narrator, and which was broadcast worldwide on NHK World.
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As time went on he became adept at blending the French and Italian styles, with an added frisson of German elements, creating something that came to be called the "mixed" or "German" style. The flautist Quantz wrote in an autobiographical contribution to Marpurg's "Historisch-kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik" that he had never heard a better orchestra than the Dresden orchestra under Volumier. In 1715 the Saxon king-elector sent his star court violinist to Cremona where for several months Volumier remained, in order to oversee the production of twelve violins ordered from the manufactory of Antonio Stradivarius. While he was employed in Dresden Volumier also developed a friendship with Bach.
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In December 2013, she replaced Sara Mohr-Pietsch as the co-presenter of Radio 3's weekday Breakfast programme.Mark Sweney "Radio 3 breakfast show to be presented by Clemency Burton-Hill", theguardian.com, 31 October 2013 She has also presented a wide range of other programmes for the network, including live concerts, a weekly broadcast from Wigmore Hall, and the New Generation Artists strand, which supports emerging international artists early in their career. She has also written and presented a number of critically acclaimed music documentaries on BBC television including Stradivarius and Me, and Who’s Yehudi, which celebrated the centenary of Yehudi Menuhin, with whom she also took violin lessons as a teenager.
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373 At a later time he returned to Paris where he stayed until his death. The famous violin named “Swan’s song” was his preferred instrument and his most famous composition is the Habanera “La bella cubana”. White also composed many other pieces, including a concert for violin and orchestra. Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas y Garrido, called the “Black "Paganini" posing with his famous Stradivarius Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido (1852-1911) was a renowned Cuban violinist, son of the also famous violinist, double-bassist and conductor Claudio Brindis de Salas (1800-1972), which conducted one of the most popular orchestras of Havana during the first half of the 19th century, named “La Concha de Oro” (The Golden Conch).
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On his first run as a five-year-old Capri started 5/4 favourite for Group 3 Vintage Crop Stakes over fourteen furlongs at Navan Racecourse on 28 April but finished a well-beaten fifth of the nine runners behind the four-year-old gelding Master of Reality. He disappointed again at Leopardstown in the following month, coming home third to Twilight Payment when odds-on favourite for the Listed Levmoss Stakes. On 20 June at Royal Ascot the horse started a 16/1 outsider for the Gold Cup in which he was ridden by Donnacha O'Brien. He looked to be in contention early in the straight but faded in the closing stages to finish sixth, eight lengths behind the winner Stradivarius.
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They first performed the work in the lecture hall of the Boston Public Library on Copley Square on 7 February 1954 (; ). The Sunday-afternoon concert had been arranged by Harold Spivacke on behalf of the Coolidge Foundation, as part of the February meeting of the Music Library Association (Spivacke was in the last year of his term as president of the MLA), which was meeting in Boston that year in honour of the centennial of the Boston Public Library (; ). The members of the Stradivarius Quartet were Wolfe Wolfinsohn and Harry Kobialka, violins, Eugene Lehner, viola, and Alfred Zighera, cello. The Enescu premiere was preceded on the programme by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's String Quartet in E minor, and followed by Beethoven's Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127 .
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He started 3/1 second favourite for the Goodwood Cup on 30 July but after briefly taking the lead a furlong out he was overtaken in the closing stages and finished third behind Stradivarius and Dee Ex Bee. On his final European start of the year the gelding was sent to Ireland and started 4/6 favourite for the Irish St. Leger at the Curragh. He raced in mid-division before making steady progress in the last quarter mile but never looked likely to win and finished fourth behind the three-year-old filly Search For A Song. On 5 November Cross Counter carried top weight of 57.5 kg as he attempted to repeat his 2018 victory in the Melbourne Cup.
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On April 27, 2004, the General Kyd, a $3.5 million Stradivarius on loan to him from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was stolen after he left it on his porch. It was discovered in a dumpster by Melanie Stevens, a 30-year-old nurse, after a home surveillance video from across the street showed the cello being lifted by a clumsy thief on a bicycle at around 6:30 am. Stevens initially asked her boyfriend to turn it into a CD cabinet, though a week and a half later she caught a news report about the missing cello and the $50,000 reward for its return. She identified it on the police website and sought to return it, with the aid of a lawyer.
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The Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, presenting a violin, said to be a Stradivarius, to Nejiko Suwa on February 22, 1943 Having relocated to Brussels in 1936 to continue her studies with Mogilevsky, she moved once again to Paris, in 1938, to study with Boris Kamensky. She gave her European debut in the Salle de Chopin there on 15 May 1939. Although World War II broke out several months later, Suwa continued to stay in Paris to further her studies even after the Nazi regime occupied Paris. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, at this time, were united by the Tripartite Pact, and this military alliance allowed Suwa's career to flourish: she was allowed to give concerts to wounded German troops to strengthen the alliance.
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The first recorded owner of the Solomon, Ex-Lambert Stradivarius was Berlin dealer and expert who sold it to ‘Miss Price’, a student of the violin studying in Berlin at the time. From Price the violin passed to the venerable English collector Robert Bower, one of the preeminent connoisseurs of his day who owned no fewer than twenty-four Stradivari instruments. By 1922 the violin was sold through the London dealers of John and Arthur Beare to Ernest E. Winterbotham who paid GB£1,600 and presented the violin to his wife Dorothy Mary Murray Lambert. Known as Miss Murray Lambert, she was among the few British women of the 1920s and 1930s who pursued a career as a concert violinist.
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In 1852 he premiered (and became the dedicatee of) a Sonata Duo for cello and piano, Op. 32, by William Sterndale Bennett, having been given the original manuscript of the music in the morning, studied it on a train then played it at the concert that same evening with the composer as pianist playing from memory. In 1859, on the foundation of the Popular Concerts, he took up the work with which he was most intimately connected for thirty-nine seasons. He retained until 1897 the post of first cello at these famous chamber concerts, during the latter half of each series. He played a Stradivarius which now is named after him Piatti and is owned by the Mexican cellist Carlos Prieto.
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Subsequent owners include Mr. Menessier, 1824; Mr Brochant de Villiers; Mr Meunié, 1860; Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume; Pierre Silvestre, on behalf of William E. Hill & Sons, 1897; Baron Knoop, 1897; Mr R. C. Baker, 1905; Lewis Bruce; and J. F. L. Bruce, after whom it is also named. The Viotti; ex-Bruce Stradivarius, considered in very good condition, and free of the wear and repairs evinced by many other instruments of the period, was last purchased by the Royal Academy of Music, for GB£3.5 million in September 2005. Its provenance was also a major factor in the violin's valuation. Funding was provided by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax, and by the National Art Collections Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund and many private donors.
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Vazira is a bay mare with no white markings bred in France by her owner, Aga Khan IV. She was sent into training with Alain de Royer-Dupré in France and was ridden in all but one of her races by Christophe Soumillon. She was from the first crop of foals sired by Sea the Stars who won the 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 2009. His other major winners have included Harzand, Taghrooda, Stradivarius and Sea The Moon. Vazira's dam Vadaza showed good racing form, winning one race and being placed twice at Listed level before becoming a very successful broodmare whose other foals included Vadapolina (Prix de Psyché) and Vadawina (Prix Saint-Alary).
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Over time he expanded his repertoire to include the various other instruments mentioned above. Rubio investigated many aspects of the technology of instrument-making, in his attempt to re-create the classical sound and appearance of the old Cremonese instruments. Some of this work was published in Nature, following a collaboration with Professor Ralph Raphael and other Cambridge University scientists: they identified components used in the surface treatment of the wood of instruments made by Stradivarius and showed that a version of these substances could be used to improve the tone of modern instruments. David Rubio in the 1990s During his 40-year career Rubio created over a thousand instruments, which are coveted by players and collectors throughout the world.
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FBI Special Agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast and Sergeant Vincent D'Agosta, now working for the Southampton Police Department, investigate a series of unusual deaths—deaths that appear to be the work of Lucifer in return for pacts entered in with him by his victims.Brimstone Mass Market Paperback Their investigation takes them from the New York City area, site of the first two deaths, to Florence, Italy where they uncover the motive and method of the killers behind the strange and gruesome deaths. During the course of unraveling the mystery, the truth behind a priceless, missing Stradivarius violin is revealed and a potentially apocalyptic riot with Messianic Christians is averted. Pendergast also reveals details of his insane brother Diogenes, whom he believes is planning something horrible.
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Stradivarius (foaled 28 February 2014) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. After winning one minor race as a two year old he emerged as a top-class stayer in the following year, winning the Queen's Vase and Goodwood Cup as well as finishing a close third in the St Leger. As a four-year-old he won the Yorkshire Cup, Ascot Gold Cup, a second Goodwood Cup and the Lonsdale Cup, securing a £1 million bonus for winning all four races, and ended the year by winning the British Champions Long Distance Cup. In 2019 he repeated his victories in the Yorkshire Cup, Ascot Gold Cup and Lonsdale Cup, and won a third Goodwood Cup, giving him a second £1 million bonus.
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Charles Louis Buthod (1810–1889) was a French luthier, best known for his violins and cellos. Based in Paris, he worked in his early career for the legendary French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, rising to become foreman of his workshop. He later set up his own business nearby, producing violins and cellos, based like many of Vuillaume's, on those of Antonius Stradivarius, probably using the dimensions he had access to while working under his former employer, who owned and copied a number of the works from the master of Cremona. Buthod's violins, dating from circa 1850 to 1870 are notable for their distinctive red varnish and robust and durable construction, and were awarded a number of medals for their workmanship and tone, although later works attributable to his name vary in quality.
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She performed with the 1673 Stradivarius from 1961 until 1964, when she acquired the Davidov. Many of her most famous recordings were made on this instrument, including the Elgar Concerto with Barbirolli, the Robert Schumann Cello Concerto with Barenboim and the two Brahms cello sonatas. From 1969 to 1970 she (like Casals before her) played on a Francesco Goffriller cello, and in 1970 acquired a modern instrument from the Philadelphia violin maker Sergio Peresson. It was the Peresson cello that du Pré played for the remainder of her career until 1973, using it for a second, live, recording of the Elgar Concerto, and her last studio recording, of Frédéric Chopin's Cello Sonata in G minor and César Franck's Violin Sonata in A arranged for cello, in December 1971.
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He has played in 20 countries, including at most major European festivals, and has recorded numerous CDs for the Black Box, Hat Art, Métier, Mode, Naïve, NMC and Stradivarius labels, including discs of Dusapin, Finnissy, Fox, Zimmermann and the new complexity disc Tracts. From 2003 to 2006 he was AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. From 2007 to 2010 he was lecturer in Musicology at Dartington College of Arts and in 2010 took up a lecturership at City University, London. He has written widely on music, co- editing and contributing large chapters to Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), as well as publishing articles on Barrett, Cage, Pascal Dusapin, Fox, Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Franz Liszt, Salvatore Sciarrino, Howard Skempton and Xenakis.
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Music critic Edward Downes characterized her work as "unsurpassed since Heifetz." Before her marriage, Jenson had the long-term loan from a wealthy violin collector of a 1743 Guarnerius del Gesu violin, the instrument with which she made the Sibelius recording. When she announced to her benefactor that she was to marry, she was given a short time in which to return the instrument because, he told her, if she was to marry she was not serious about a career as a concert performer. Eventually, however, Yo Yo Ma, the preeminent cellist of his era, referred her to Samuel Zygmuntowicz, a contemporary master violin maker in Brooklyn who has made sound-alike copies of great antique Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins for such violin superstars as Isaac Stern and Joshua Bell.
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He offered concerts in several European cities, as well as in Cuba, where he appeared as a soloist and also accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Havana. After his graduation at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1935 with just 16 years old, the renowned Cuban violinist Ángel Reyes (1919-1988) developed a very successful career as a soloist and also accompanied by prestigious orchestras of many countries. He established his residence in the United States at a very young age, obtained an award in the Ysaÿe Contest in Brussels and was a professor at the Michigan and Northwestern Universities, until his retirement in 1985. Reyes was the owner the famous violin Lipinsky Stradivarius, with which he performed the Glazunov violin concert along with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Havana, conducted by Massimo Freccia, in November 1942.
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The 2018–19 season was also a hectic one for Hanyu after a mid-season injury again forced him to step away from competition for four months. Despite this, he succeeded in setting 6 new world records and winning a silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. In August 2018, Hanyu announced that for the upcoming season his short program would be set to "Otoñal" by Raúl di Blasio and choreographed by Jeffrey Buttle. His free skating, titled "Origin" by Hanyu, would be performed to "Art on Ice" and "Magic Stradivarius" by Edvin Marton and choreographed by Shae-Lynn Bourne. The former pays tribute to Johnny Weir's 2004–05 free skating program and the latter is a homage to Evgeni Plushenko's "Tribute to Nijinsky" program, which was his free skating in the 2003–04 season.
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Dorothy Levitt, in a 26hp Napier, at Brooklands, England, in 1908 In 1906, Dorothy Levitt broke the women's world speed record for the flying kilometer, recording a speed of 91 mph (146.25 km/h) and receiving the sobriquet the "Fastest Girl on Earth". She drove a six-cylinder Napier motorcar, a 100 hp (74.6 kW) development of the K5, in a speed trial in Blackpool.Hull, Peter G. "Napier: The Stradivarius of the Road", in Northey, Tom, ed. The World of Automobiles (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 13, p.1483.G.N. Georgano Cars: Early and Vintage, 1886–1930. (London: Grange-Universal, 1985). In 1929, Frenchwoman Hellé Nice broke the female speed record. She reached 122.84 mph (197.7 km/h) in a Bugatti 35B on a 10 km course on the Montlhery track outside Paris.
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In 2001, Almeida starred in the Brazilian comedy O Xangô de Baker Street, where he plays the legendary British detective Sherlock Holmes. The film is based in a book written in 1995 by the Brazilian author Jô Soares about a case involving Sherlock Holmes and is his loyal friend Doctor Watson, who are called by the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II, to find the thief of a priceless Stradivarius owned by his lover. Due Almeida's good representation of the character, he won another Portuguese Golden Globe for best actor, his third, and was nominated for Cinema Brazil Grand Prize award for best actor. In 2001, he had a supporting role in the war film Behind Enemy Lines as Admiral Juan Miguel Piquet, the commander of NATO's naval forces, starring alongside Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman.
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His vihuela, a 15th-16th century Spanish forerunner of today's guitar, was admired and played by many classical guitarists, and featured in a 1954 concert Court Music Of The Spanish Renaissance at the Museum of Fine Arts. Throughout his life, he continued to indulge his passion for building violins as well as other exotic instruments. In the early 90s he took time to self-publish his deeply researched theory illuminating the mystery of the brilliant tonal quality of Stradivarius and other Cremonese fiddle-makers. Observations On The Reasons For The Cremona Tone appeared in the January 1994 bulletin of the Southern California Violin Makers, with the convincing and tested argument that burnishing the wood face of instruments prior to varnishing created a compressed, non-spongy, and more resonant soundboard, and consequent tonal brilliance and richness.
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In April 2008 Chen won the senior division first prize of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Cardiff, Wales. (In 2004 he had won jointly the third prize of the junior division in that competition.Laureates Archive – Prizewinners since 1983, Menuhin Competition) Chen then came to the attention of Maxim Vengerov, who served on the competition jury, and was engaged for performances including debuts with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in Saint Petersburg and at the International Rostropovich Festival with the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra in Baku, under the baton of Vengerov. Following his success at the Menuhin Competition, Chen won the first prize of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium, bringing him numerous concert engagements, a recording, and a three-year loan of the "Huggins" Stradivarius from the Nippon Music Foundation.
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At the time of his death in 1883, Enrico Ceruti, a prolific and successful Italian luthier and musician in his own rights, passed down the objects from his workshop to Michelina, the widow of his son, Paolo. Michelina was at that time, married the second time to Giovanni Battista Cerani, who was also a close friend of Enrico Ceruti. Cerani was an instrument dealer and collector, who later donated various musical instruments and models owned by great Cremonese violin luthiers, including Antonio Stradivari to the town of Cremona in 1893, and thus, the Stradivarius museum (in ) was established. The museum was later enriched by the inestimable collection of Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio of Salabue, an Italian count who is known as the first great connoisseur and collector of violins of his time.
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It now lies empty Initially, the building of St Johns greatly relieved pressure on space at St Peter's, but continued rapid population growth made it necessary to build two more churches very close to St John's within a few decades. (One, St Paul's, was demolished in 1960 to make way for Wolverhampton Ring Road, and St George's was transformed into a Sainsbury's superstore in the 1980s.) All were initially chapels of ease, dependent on St Peter's, although the circumstances of their foundation gave their lay sponsors considerable influence, as the clergy were largely dependent on the generosity of lay benefactors for an income and for maintenance of the church building. One of these sponsors was the musical Sir Samuel Hellier, known for the Hellier Stradivarius; the minister at the time, Thomas Shaw, was his heir and changed his name to Shaw- Hellier.Shaw, Stebbing.
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George Balabushka (Russian: Григорий Антонович Балабушка Grigoriy Antonovich Balabushka; December 9, 1912 – December 5, 1975) was a Russian-born billiards (pool) cue maker, arguably the most prominent member of that profession, and is sometimes referred to as "the Stradivarius of cuemakers". His full name or last name standing alone is often used to refer to a cue stick made by him. Arriving in the U.S. in 1924, he worked at various carpentry and toy and furniture making jobs. He was an avid pool player and purchased a pool room with a business partner in 1959 and thereafter started making cues as gifts for friends which quickly blossomed into a business when others wanted to purchase them. Balabushka turned out approximately 1,200 handcrafted cues during his 16-year cue-making career, spanning from 1959 to his death in 1975.
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An Ernst Heinrich Roth label, as they appeared on the instruments made from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s American jazz bassist Charles Mingus playing his 1927 Roth bass (1976) The labels of the mid 20s to early 30s were usually printed in cursive script saying: Ernst Heinrich Roth Markneukirchen 19(--) Reproduction of Antonius Stradivarius Cremona 17(--) or Ernst Heinrich Roth Markneukirchen 19(--) Reproduction of Josef Guarnerius Cremona 17(--) Note: The first name is sometimes mistakenly read as 'Erush'. It is written in old German running writing and is definitely meant to be 'Ernst'. The word 'Germany' is also often printed on the label in purple or black ink. In addition to the label, there is usually an oval-shaped brand stamp inside the instrument reading: Ernst Heinrich Roth / Markneukirchen, followed by a serial number.
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He has also conducted the first performances in modern times of works such as the American version of L'ape musicale by Lorenzo Da Ponte, the first staged performances of Gian Francesco Malipiero's Il sogno di un tramonto d'autunno, the first revival of Kurt Weill's Marie Galante, and the first live performance of the radio opera Don Perlimplin by Bruno Maderna. He has served as the Principal Conductor of Angelicum Orchestra in Milan (1984–88), Associate Conductor of the Filarmonica del Conservatorio di Milano (2000–2003) and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of I Solisti Aquilani in L'Aquila (2003–2005). In the contemporary music field he has been the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Dedalo Ensemble in Brescia since 1995. He has recorded for many labels, including Naxos, Dynamic, Bongiovanni, La Nuova Era, and Stradivarius.
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Margot Douaihy Margot Douaihy, Ph.D, is a writer whose works include Scranton Lace (Clemson University Press), Girls Like You (Clemson University Press), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and the chapbook i would ruby if i could (Factory Hollow Press). She edits the literary journal Northern New England Review and various Future Plc publications. Her writing has been featured in PBS NewsHour, The Wisconsin Review, Colorado Review, The South Carolina Review, The Tahoma Review, The Madison Review, The Mark Literary Review, The Tishman Review, The Petigru Review, The Elevation Review, and The Adirondack Review. Douaihy's first novel, The Stradivarius Listening Test, is a “quirky, modern take on the love story, set in New York City.” Douaihy is a 2018 Neal Award winner for her mentorship in the publishing industry, and she received the 2018 Marianne Dekker Mattera Award.
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The first composition for the hyperbass flute with live electronics and magnetic tape is Persistenza della memoria by Alessandro Grego, published in 2001 by the ARTS label on the CD Flute XX vol.2. In 2002, the Italian composer Nicola Sani composed Con Fuoco (for hyperbass flute and 8-track magnetic tape), which Fabbriciani recorded at the electronic studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne, Germany. The track was released on a CD entitled Elements on the Stradivarius label. In 2002, Adriano Guarnieri Medea opera di video per soli, voce morbida, coro, orchestra, assoli strumentali e live electronics (2000) l'opera-video Medea, per soli, coro e orchestra a Venezia, Teatro la Fenice (2002).Nicola Sani Diotima e Euridice (2005). Opera da camera per voci, strumenti e elettronica su testo a cura dell’Autore (70') Zagreb, Music Biennale Zagreb 2005, Zagreb Puppet Theatre, 21.4.
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He fled to Ancona and locked himself away in a room to practise, according to Charles Burney, "in order to study the use of the bow in more tranquility, and with more convenience than at Venice, as he had a place assigned him in the opera orchestra of that city". Tartini's skill improved tremendously and, in 1721, he was appointed Maestro di Cappella at the Basilica di Sant'Antonio in Padua, with a contract that allowed him to play for other institutions if he wished. In Padua he met and befriended fellow composer and theorist Francesco Antonio Vallotti. Tartini was the first known owner of a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1715, which Tartini bestowed upon his student Salvini, who in turn gave it to the Polish composer and virtuoso violinist Karol Lipiński upon hearing him perform: the instrument is thus known as the Lipinski Stradivarius.
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From 1987 to 1988, Weingarten was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. In 2006, Weingarten won the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for Multicultural Journalism for his Washington Post Magazine feature article Snowbound. In 2008, Weingarten was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his Washington Post story, "Pearls Before Breakfast," "his chronicling of a world-class violinist (Joshua Bell) who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters." The night Weingarten returned from accepting his Pulitzer Prize, he received an email from a librarian named Paul Musgrave from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, who told him that he had recently seen an article about a similar experiment that the Chicago Evening Post did in May 1930 where they had the virtuoso Jacques Gordon play his Stradivarius violin outside a subway station to see if commuters would notice the music.
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David Sarser (January 31, 1921 – June 6, 2013)David Sarser obituary Nolan & Taylor-Howe Funeral Home, Northport, NY was an American musician, audio engineer and electronics designer. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he played violin with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the 1950s under Arturo Toscanini and worked with Les Paul in the design of the first 8 track recording deck (built for Mr. Paul by Ampex for his home studio.)Studio 3: A Place of Recording Studio History... He stopped playing the violin after his Stradivarius was stolen in 1962.Wall Street Journal article1735 Violin "Lamoureux-Zimbalist" Archivio della Liuteria Cremonese The stolen (formerly his) instrument, Lamoureux (1735), has been exhibited in Japan, and it is shown "unassembled" in "Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari: Treatises on the Life and Work of the Patriarch of Violinmakers" (Goodkind, 1972). It is widely believed to still reside in Japan.
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On his first appearance as a four-year-old Stradivarius started 4/6 favourite for the Yorkshire Cup over one and three quarter miles at York Racecourse. Ridden by Dettori he took the lead in the last quarter mile and accelerated away from his rivals to win "readily" by three lengths from Desert Skyline. After the race Dettori said "He's a star – it's very rare you get a stayer with a turn of foot, but that is what he has got. It's a deadly combination." The colt's second appearance at Royal Ascot on 21 June saw him made 7/4 joint favourite with Order of St George for the Gold Cup over two and a half miles, with the third choice in the betting being Vazirabad, a French gelding whose victories included the Prix du Cadran and two editions of the Prix Royal Oak.
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The modern scholars who have studied Cristofori's work in detail tend to express their admiration in the strongest terms; thus the New Grove encyclopedia describes him as having possessed "tremendous ingenuity"; Stewart Pollens says "All of Cristofori's work is startling in its ingenuity"; and the early-instrument scholar Grant O'Brien has written "The workmanship and inventiveness displayed by the instruments of Cristofori are of the highest order and his genius has probably never been surpassed by any other keyboard maker of the historical period ... I place Cristofori shoulder to shoulder with Antonio Stradivarius." Cristofori is also given credit for originality in inventing the piano. While it is true that there had been earlier, crude attempts to make piano-like instruments, it is not clear that these were even known to Cristofori.Pollens (1995:45–46) The piano is thus an unusual case in which an important invention can be ascribed unambiguously to a single individual, who brought it to an unusual degree of perfection all on his own.
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She also gave first performances of the violin concertos of Nicolai Berezowsky, Mana Zucca and Dai-Keong Lee, and the first American performance of the Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D. Her annual Town Hall recital in 1956 elicited this commentary in The New York Times: "Miss Field is a rare combination, an extremely facile technician who also comprehends that the task of the performer is to make music rather than to set a new record for the track. It is true that in bravura playing Miss Field is by no means found wanting; but mere technique is never allowed to get in the way of the music." Field performed and recorded extensively in Europe during the 1950s and early 1960s, notably with expatriate American conductor Dean Dixon. Her instrument during those years was a 1698 "long pattern" Stradivarius once owned by Joseph Joachim She also appeared as piano accompanist with string player colleagues.
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From Violinmaking to Music:The Life & Works of Simone Fernando Sacconi - A.C.L.A.P. Cremona In 1972, he was bestowed honorary citizenship by Cremona (the highest honor). In 2012, nine of Sacconi's medals were discovered shortly before they were due to be melted down. Of the medals, one was awarded to Sacconi by his pupils, and is engraved with their names; Segal, Esposti, Zambelli and Bissolotti. Also found was the medal awarded by the City of Cremona, medals marking the bicentennial of the death of Stradivarius, and two wartime medals, awarded for service during World War I.From: Sacconi Medals Saved - Brompton's Auctioneers, London Sacconi has directly influenced several generations of makers/restorers: Charles Beare, Max Moller, Pierre Vidoudez, Dario D'Attili, Hans Weisshaar, Jacques Francais, Frank Passa, Bernard Millant, Mario F. D'Alessandro, Harry Duffy, Renè Morel, William Salchow, Hans Nebel, Roland Feller,Vahakn Nigogosian, C. Ray Ferguson, Carlos Arcieri, David Segal, Carleen M. Hutchins, Francesco Bissolotti, William J. Huggler, Ronald J. Huggler , James Reynold Carlisle.
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Ridden as on his previous start by Harry Bentley he tracked the leaders before taking the lead in the final furlong and winning by one and a half lengths from Frankuus. Defoe was then moved up in class and distance again and matched against older horses for the first time when he started 13/8 favourite for the Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes over thirteen and a half furlongs at Newbury in August. With Atzeni in the saddle he went to the front approaching the final furlong and won a "shade cosily" by three quarters of a length from the four- year-old Wall of Fire. In the 241st running of the St Leger over fourteen and a half furlongs at Doncaster Racecourse on 16 September Defoe started the 6/1 fourth choice in the betting but failed to reproduce his best form and finished eleventh in a race which saw Capri win from Crystal Ocean, Stradivarius and Rekindling.
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On their date night, Homer takes Marge to an action film featuring the legendary fictional spy character Stradivarius Cain (voiced by Bryan Cranston), but Homer's endless series of humorous shout-outs during the film earn him as much contempt from Marge as they do kudos from Lenny and Carl. Marge makes it clear the next morning she is still angry at Homer, and he ends up feeling sad on the job—though he soon feels much worse after Mr. Burns accidentally drives into the ladder Homer was using to fix lights and Homer ends up getting a serious concussion. Mr. Burns reluctantly agrees with the concerns of Smithers (moral) and his lawyer (legal) and gives Homer eight weeks off with pay. When Homer goes home, however, Marge's disgust with him has been matched by the discontents Bart, Lisa, and Grandpa feel about other things, so Homer decides to keep his paid leave a secret.
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Several orchestras were precursor ensembles to the current OSM. One such orchestra was formed in 1897, which lasted ten years, and another was established in 1930, which lasted eleven. The current orchestra directly traces its roots back to 1934, when Wilfrid Pelletier formed an ensemble called Les Concerts Symphoniques. This ensemble gave its first concert January 14, 1935, under conductor Rosario Bourdon. The orchestra acquired its current name in 1954. In the early 1960s, as the Orchestra was preparing to move to new facilities at Place des Arts, patron and prominent Montreal philanthropist, John Wilson McConnell, purchased the 1727 Laub- Petschnikoff Stradivarius violin for Calvin Sieb, the Symphony's concertmaster. Outdoor concert of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra with conductor Jean-François Rivest in the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro in August 2008. The orchestra has begun touring and some recording in the 1960s and early 1970s, during the tenures of Zubin Mehta and Franz-Paul Decker.
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After receiving her music diploma in vocal performance from the Vicenza Conservatory and her advanced degree in Music History from Padua University, both of them with top marks, she continued her studies with Nino Albarosa, René Clemencich, Alan Curtis, Magda Olivero, Virginio Puecher, Andrea von Ramm and Susanna Ghione, winning national and international prices. Numerous recordings for CD labels include: Ariston-Ricordi, Curci (Du Dunkelheit by Giacomo Manzoni, dedicated to her), Edipan, Nuova Era (two monographic CDs on Giorgio Federico Ghedini and other two on Alfredo Casella and Franco Alfano), Stradivarius (six CDs La voce contemporanea in Italia - Voll. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and one CD La voce crepuscolare). Tiziana Scandaletti has collaborated with theaters such as Teatro alla Scala in Milan and prestigious Institutions like Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, with an international activity in chamber music as soprano of the Duo Alterno, with whom she performed hundreds of concerts and masterclasses all around the world.
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The Albany Herald gave this account of a Rubinoff personal appearance during the violinist's 1948 tour: :The exuberant musician with his leather-cased violin strode into the lobby of the New Albany Hotel this morning with the poise of a concert musician and the aggressive air of a top-flight general. Mayor James W. “Taxi” Smith, Sam Morris and Bill Buntin of the Exchange Club met the violinist at the door of the elevator. After greeting the Albanians, Mr. Rubinoff began a discussion of cameras and their qualities with Jack Holland, Herald Photographer. At the same time he removed his violin valued at $100,000 from the case. Placing the Stradivarius violin on the shoulder of Mayor Smith, he remarked: “Rubinoff’s violin never played a sour note,” Mayor Smith only gripped and grinned. A “regular guy”, the Russian born violinist immediately conferred with Bill Buntin and Sam Morris of the Exchange Club, sponsor of the concert in the city auditorium today at 8 p.m.
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Immediately after the war, Levin applied to the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he began his academic studies in February, 1946. At Juilliard he studied with the violinist Hans Letz, and then with Ivan Galamian, with whom he continued to study, at Meadowmount, Galamian's summer school in upstate New York, until 1953. Juilliard's innovative president, the composer William Schuman, approved a major in string quartet for Levin, who founded a student quartet in 1946 that studied with the newly founded Juilliard String Quartet, and subsequently became known as the LaSalle Quartet. In New York Levin was able to get permission to attend Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra rehearsals and to get tickets to Toscanini's broadcast concerts; he also made the acquaintance of violin dealer Rembert Wurlitzer, who would later play a significant role in providing the LaSalle Quartet first with a set of Stradivarius instruments and then with a set of Amatis.
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Raphael studied many natural products, especially of the type that were biologically active and which would provide a challenge for synthesis but might be the realistic target of a single PhD student's thesis. He and his students published syntheses of 2-deoxyribose, aaptamine, aphidicolin, apiose, arachidonic acid, arcyriaflavin B, baikiain, bullatenone, chrysanthemic acid, clovene, cordycepose, cuparene, erythrulose, exaltolide, farnesiferol C, geiparvarin, gibberone, histamine, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, lipoic acid, pseudomonic acid, pyrenophorin, Queen bee acid, shikimic acid, staurosporinone, strigol, steganacin, steganone, trichodermin and virantmicin. Raphael also investigated the composition of the wax coating of plant leaves, describing the hydrocarbons of which they are composed. In another intriguing publication in Nature, Raphael collaborated with David Rubio to identify components used in the surface treatment of the wood of stringed instruments made by Stradivarius in Cremona and showed that a version of these substances could be used to improve the tone of modern instruments.
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At the first, Sir Eugene Goossens and Boult conducted an all- British concert on 14 June 1921: Josef Holbrooke - Overture to The Children; Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending; Sir Eugene Goossens - symphonic poem, The Eternal Rhythm; Cyril Scott - Piano Concerto (the composer at the pianoforte); and Holst's The Planets. This concert included the first performance of the orchestral version of The Lark Ascending, played by Marie Hall who owned a Viotti Stradivarius. Rosing Opera Week at the Aeolian Hall, June 1921, with the BSO At the second "Orchestral Plebiscite Concert" on 16 June, Hamilton Harty conducted Elgar's Enigma Variations and Bantock's The Sea Reivers: and Walter Damrosch took the podium for performances of the 'Dirge' from Edward McDowell's Indian Pieces, Adventures in a Perambulator by John Alden Carpenter and three numbers from Damrosch's own Iphigenia in Aulis. The Russian tenor recitalist Vladimir Rosing presented a week of small-scale opera at the Aeolian Hall from 25 June to 2 July 1921, with stage director Theodore Komisarjevsky.
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The two then discussed singers they would send the song to in order to record it; they agreed that Streisand would ideally be the perfect choice due to her "rare combination of a Stradivarius-quality voice and a gift for storytelling in song". After offering the song to Streisand to record, Bolton remarked: > I had no doubt that Barbra would sing the hell out of 'We're Not Making Love > Anymore' – and not just because she is one of the world's greatest singers. > I began writing the song from the heart during my divorce, and Barbra sang > it from heart in the studio. I was not at all shocked when her single > immediately hit the Top 10 of the Adult Contemporary charts in 1989 [...] As > much as that song means to me – I'm proud and thankful to have co-written it > – I'll never be able to hear it without associating it with a sad time in my > life.
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About eighty of Gasparo da Salò's instruments are known to have survived to the present day, and they stand confidently among the works of Stradivarius, Guarnerius, Amati, Jacob Stainer, and his own pupil Giovanni Paolo Maggini as unique examples of the highest mastery attained in Brescian or indeed European instrument manufacture of the golden era of violin making, possessing exceptional tonal characteristics. Owing to their exceptional tone and beauty, Gasparo da Salò's patterns are frequently emulated in exacting modern commercial reproductions. These modern tributes to Gasparo da Salò are themselves merely the latest arrivals in what has become a long and distinguished tradition of copying and emulating the master's work. Charles Beare's analysis of the best works of Guarneri del Gesu's latest period, including the famous Vieuxtemps Guarneri of 1741, seems to demonstrate that Guarneri very strictly copied the arching used by Gasparo, which helped develop an instrument of modern character, with very powerful tone and projection.
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He owes his international reputation largely to his first recordings (among others a CD dedicated to Antonio Pasculli, the “Paganini of the Oboe”) which were received with great acclaim, and brought engagements at various festivals and with major orchestras in Berlin, Rotterdam, Paris, Warsaw, Lugano, Geneva, Zurich, Basel, Milan, London, Japan and the United States. Besides being a soloist, he is an enthusiastic performer varying from duo to baroque ensemble, playing on period instruments, and from wind octet (Ottetto Classico Italiano) to larger string-wind groups and contemporary music included improvisation. Composers like Sylvano Bussotti, Niccolò Castiglioni, Paul Glass, Éric Gaudibert, Francesco Hoch, Alessandro Lucchetti, Luca Mosca, Albert Möschinger, Mario Pagliarani, Gianni Possio and many others have written for and dedicated works to him. He has recorded a DVD (Lebrun Concerto, Frans Brüggen conducting) and about 30 LPs and CDs for Accord, Claves, Divox, Ex Libris, Harmonia Mundi, Jecklin, Koch-Schwann, Stradivarius, Teldec and others with works that represent the oboe repertoire of the last three centuries at its very best.
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Both recordings received unanimous critical acclaim. Finalist and prize-winner of numerous international violin competitions, such as the Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poznan, the Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Belgrade, the Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia and the Gian-Battista Viotti in Vercelli Competitions, Nicolas Dautricourt studied from 1993 violin and chamber music at the Paris Conservatoire with Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Jean Mouillère, respectively, and was unanimously awarded a premier prix in each of those disciplines, the latter with the Kinsky String Quartet. He went on to follow the advanced course (violin), while studying composition with Isabelle Duha at the Conservatoire of Issy-les-Moulineaux, where he was awarded another premier prix. He has also studied with prestigious masters such as Philipp Hirschhorn, Tibor Varga, Miriam Fried, Pamela Frank, Gérard Poulet and Hermann Krebbers, and has taken part in masterclasses given by the Borodin and Hagen Quartets. Nicolas Dautricourt became in 2007 artistic director of the festival « Les Moments Musicaux de Gerberoy», and currently plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivarius (Cremona, 1713), the "Château Fombrauge", on a generous loan from Bernard Magrez.
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The Society was founded by Geoffrey Fushi and Mary Galvin in 1985 when Galvin, wife of then-president of Motorola, Bob Galvin, was approached by Fushi and Robert Bein from Bein & Fushi Violins of Chicago, to lend the Ruby Stradivarius of 1708 that he had previously sold to her to a promising violinist, Dylana Jenson. Seeing that such rare violins were very expensive and difficult to obtain, Galvin and Fushi designed the structure and name of the society after lending another violin when Dorothy DeLay of the Juilliard School asked Fushi for a violin for her most promising student, then ten-year-old Midori. Enjoying the experience of lending such beautiful violins to those who could use them to grow and launch their careers, a string of loans followed. Awardees include Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, Paul Huang, Yi-Jia Susanne Hou, Leila Josefowicz, Philippe Quint, Sarah Chang, Janine Jansen, Vadim Repin, Kristóf Baráti, Hilary Hahn, Maxim Vengerov, and Paul Coletti, all of whom have enhanced their careers playing violins the Society arranged for them to borrow.
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Siddiq maintained his loyalty to Michonne and decided to remain in Alexandria to help people in need in the infirmary for about six years. With the arrival of a group of outsiders to their doors after they were rescued by Judith from a herd of walkers, Siddiq quickly treated the wound that one of the newcomers had done to the head and subsequently attended the meeting convened at the church of the place to decide its destiny within the walls. Convinced that the newcomers were not a problem for anyone, Siddiq agreed to allow them to stay in the community; although he eventually changed his mind after Michonne unmasked the team leader about his dark past and the knife he had hidden in his belt. In “Stradivarius”, when Michonne decided to escort the newcomers to Hilltop instead of abandoning them to her fate, Siddiq accompanied the woman on her trip and maintained that she had to allow Magna and her companions to remain in Alexandria, but it made it clear that only I was helping them for their daughter.
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The Musée de la Musique features a collection of about items, comprising around musical instruments, instrument elements or pieces of art (paintings, sculptures, etc.) collected by the Conservatoire de Paris since 1793 as well as some archives and a library of written and audiovisual documents. The museum's collection, which opened to the public in 1864 and was relocated at the Cité de la musique in 1997, contains instruments used in classical and popular music from the sixteenth century to the present time including lutes, archlutes, almost 200 classical guitars,Les guitares classiques du Musée de la musique (almost 200 classical guitars) ; Instruments et oeuvres d'art – use search-phrase: Mot-clé(s) : guitare violins by Italian luthiers Antonio Stradivari,Instruments by Antonio Stradivarius at the Musée de la Musique, website of Philharmonie de Paris. the Guarneri family, Nicolò Amati; French and Flemish harpsichords; pianos by French piano-makers Erard and Ignaz Pleyel; saxophones by Adolph Sax, etc. The instruments are exhibited in five departments by period and by type.
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Without giving up on her plan, Magna decided to break into Michonne's house to attack her while she was off guard but after seeing how she hugged her son, she stopped at the last moment and as an act of good faith she handed her the other knife that she had kept, confessing that she would have taken the same precautions that Michonne took with her group if she were the community leader. Magna's words eventually convinced Michonne not to send them back in the open, and decided to escort them to another community they knew. In "Stradivarius", on their way to the Hilltop, Magna protested Michonne's decision not to hand over their weapons after having repeatedly shown her that they were no danger to anyone, but her claims were ignored by her group. After arriving at the site where they were attacked by the herd of walkers while traveling and being informed by Michonne that they would also seize the weapons they found, Magna confronted her for her decision, although she ended up reluctantly accepting and she set off to find a safe place for the night.
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The two most famous violin makers, Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù (1698–1744), both used an open string length of for their violins, which had already been established a generation before by Jacob Stainer (c. 1617–1683). Later makers have been unwilling to deviate from this. Smaller scale instruments are used extensively to teach younger players. The size of these is described by a "conventional" fraction that has no mathematical significance. For example, a 7/8 violin has a scale of about 317 mm, a 3/4-size instrument a scale of 307 mm, a half-size one 287 mm, and a quarter-size one 267 mm. 1/8, 1/10, 1/16 and 1/32 and even 1/64 violins also exist, becoming progressively smaller, but again in no proportional relationship. (A full-size instrument is described as 4/4.) Cellos exist in a smaller range of sizes than violins, with 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/10 being reasonably common. As with the violin, the Stradivarius scale is regarded as standard for orchestral work; This is about .
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She has also had collaborations with Elliott Sharp, Mike Sarin and Jherek Bischoff. She has played world and European premières of pieces by Cage, Feldman, Maderna, Rota, Togni, Bussotti, and Katunda in places like the La Fenice Theatre in Venice, Mills College (Oakland) and the Conway Hall in London. She has performed her own music mainly in Europe and the U.S. She has recorded one CD and one DVD for the US label OgreOgress with all premiere recordings (Early and Unknown Piano Pieces by Morton Feldman and Morton Feldman-Barbara Monk Feldman), and has also participated in A Call for Silence, a recording project by Nicolas Collins for the Sonic Arts Network, UK. She is one of the four pianists of Four Pianos by Sylvano Bussotti, premiered in Italy in 2013 and subsequently published on a CD by Stradivarius. She is also a performer in a broader sense: she has danced in international projects of such choreographers as Iris Erez and Sara Wiktorowicz, and she has choreographed herself (her solo piece She-Shoe has been featured at the International Dance Film Festival 2008 in Yokohama, Japan).
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