Palestinian from Nazareth receives Stradivarius
NewsIt is reported that the violinist Yamen Saadi, born in Nazareth in 1997 and a concertmaster of Barenboim’s West-Eastern Diwan Orchestra, has received a famous Stradivarius on loan for three years.
The ‘Lord Amherst of Hackney’ Stradivarius is dated 1734. It was last sold in 1972, at a Sothebys auction. The loan is being made to Yaamen Saadi by a private philanthropy circle. Saadi has prviously received grants from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
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