Conductor offers reward for stolen scores
mainBramwell Tovey got home from a Remembrance Day concert in Vancouver, Canada, to find that his briefcase, with two batons and a valuable score, had been nicked from his car.
One manuscript contained 30 years worth of conducting notes. The other was an almost-finished string quartet.
Heartbreaking. I hope they find it with everything intact ASAP!
You mean he’s offering a reward to keep them?
It’s very true. My car was broken into this summer. A phone, an iPod, and some connecting cables were stolen. Even taking into account the damage to a window and a door (the ignorant thieves did not know that you cannot break into a Prius by pulling the lock assembly off), I cannot say how glad I am that they left the scores behind. That loss would have indeed been catastrophic.
Sorry, the above is in response to the line in the linked article:
Argh, these html tags are pretty buggy.
“Bramwell Tovey is learning a painful lesson that the worst thing a thief can take from a musician is his music.”
how much is he offering for me to re-write him a better string quartet ? 😉