Today, shoppers worry about fake designer bags and whether an online bargain is really what it claims to be. But long before ...
A violin thought to have been made by Antonio Stradivari has been seized by Ukrainian customs officials. The instrument was discovered in the boot of a car by guards from the Porubne checkpoint, which ...
ACCORDING to an Italian travel folder, Cremona, the two-thousand-year-old town on the plains of Lombardy, is “noteworthy chiefly for its gastronomic specialties, such as butter and cheeses, mustards ...
Focus sur un instrument emblématique de l’histoire, considéré aujourd’hui comme « l’un des instruments le plus important au monde » : le violoncelle de Lise Cristiani, « l’amazone ». « Quelques ...
Has a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth $10 million and stolen by the Nazis during World War II turned up in France? Pascale Bernheim, an expert on looted musical instruments, thinks so. The ...
Ms Pascale Bernheim, an expert on looted musical instruments, thinks so. The first clue was an article in a local newspaper. It reported that violinist Emmanuel Coppey demonstrated his talent on ...
Un Stradivarius robado por los nazis en Polonia reapareció a finales de marzo durante un concierto en el noreste de Francia? La experta Pascale Bernheim, que lo busca desde hace años, asegura que sí, ...
When Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona, Italy in 1737, he left behind him an estimated 1,100 masterfully constructed stringed instruments, of which perhaps 600 that have any claim to his name exist ...
The centuries-old mystery over what went into building Antonio Stradivari's best violins may be narrowing to a single Alpine valley. A new study covered by the New York Times finds that the wood used ...
Thirteen years ago Henry Campbell, a blind Negro, bought a nice new fiddle for a few dollars. Henry was a lively hand with the ragtime bow. He knew a black boy who had an old fiddle. The blind man ...
EVERY now and then, someone cleaning out an attic comes across a dusty old violin with a label bearing some such legend as “ANTONIUS STRADIVARIUS CREMONENSIS FACIEBAT ANNO”—and a date within the life ...
EXCLUSIVE: Itamar Moses, a Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter with television credits including Showtime’s The Affair and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, has sold Netflix the feature pitch for ...