Totenberg’s Stradvarius will be heard again
mainA precious violin, stolen from the Boston teacher Roman Totenberg in 1980 and recovered after the death of the thief, has been restored and is ready to be played once more.
AP reports: Mira Wang, a violinist who immigrated to the United States from China 30 years ago to study under Totenberg, will play the instrument at a private concert in New York on March 13, and more performances after that are possible.
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Great news about the violin!
For the curious, a photo of Roman in Warsaw from 1932 (far right):
http://andretchaikowsky.com/photopages/at028.jpg
Here Totenberg playing his wonderful violin, from this 1976 Boston recital:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edFB9pZDUpM