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A Stolen, Then Recovered, Stradivarius Returns To The Stage
A Stolen, Then Recovered, Stradivarius Returns To The Stage
March 14, 2017·7:11 AM ET
In music, a coda is a passage that brings a musical composition to an end. This is the coda to a musical saga — the story of the Stradivarius violin that was stolen 37 years ago from my late father, violinist Roman Totenberg, and recovered in 2015.
That violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1734, was my father's "musical partner" for 38 years as he toured the world. ... He used to dream of opening his violin case and seeing it there again. But when he died at the age of 101 — literally teaching on his death bed — he still was seeing the Strad only in those dreams.
We three Totenberg sisters finally saw it again a year and a half ago after it was turned over to us at the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan following a mammoth press conference. Since then, the violin has been living at Rare Violins of New York, undergoing restoration by amazing craftsmen.
[font size=1]Roman Totenberg with violinist Mira Wang (center) in 2010 in Boston.
Michael J. Lutch/Courtesy of the Totenberg family[/font]
On Monday it had its debut at a private concert in New York, played by my father's former student Mira Wang, now a virtuoso performer in her own right. ... There never was any doubt she would be the one to play it first. In the family, she is known as the fourth Totenberg sister.
March 14, 2017·7:11 AM ET
In music, a coda is a passage that brings a musical composition to an end. This is the coda to a musical saga — the story of the Stradivarius violin that was stolen 37 years ago from my late father, violinist Roman Totenberg, and recovered in 2015.
That violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1734, was my father's "musical partner" for 38 years as he toured the world. ... He used to dream of opening his violin case and seeing it there again. But when he died at the age of 101 — literally teaching on his death bed — he still was seeing the Strad only in those dreams.
We three Totenberg sisters finally saw it again a year and a half ago after it was turned over to us at the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan following a mammoth press conference. Since then, the violin has been living at Rare Violins of New York, undergoing restoration by amazing craftsmen.
[font size=1]Roman Totenberg with violinist Mira Wang (center) in 2010 in Boston.
Michael J. Lutch/Courtesy of the Totenberg family[/font]
On Monday it had its debut at a private concert in New York, played by my father's former student Mira Wang, now a virtuoso performer in her own right. ... There never was any doubt she would be the one to play it first. In the family, she is known as the fourth Totenberg sister.
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