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NEWS IN BRIEF
The String Circle launches in
Cremona
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A new international initiative has launched in Cremona, with the aim of creating a dialogue of mutual support between international master luthiers and promising young string players. Eleven luthiers have been selected to provide one or more instruments on loan, and a range of maintenance and repair services, to young players from the Le Dimore del Quartetto network, which supports 90 quartets and chamber music groups at the beginning of their careers, and is promoted in collaboration with the Fondazione Museo del Violino Antonio Stradivari.
The initiative aims to focus on a specific audience and the need for young string players to have access to high-quality instruments at the start of their careers.
Missing €100,000 violin found dumped by a Parisian trash can bit.ly/3rOaOoSAlmost four months since an 1899 Giulio Degani violin went missing in Paris, the instrument turned up next to a trash can in Porte de Clignancourt, Paris. The instrument (below), which belonged to violinist Enrico Tedde, was stolen on a train between Poitiers and Paris in late 2021. ‘I didn’t understand what happened.I got up, and it was no longer there,’ Tedde told Le Parisien. ‘Finally after three and a half months, [it] came home just like I left [it]… a miracle!’ he posted on social media. The case also contained two bows, sheet music and Tedde’s passport, which the finder used to track him down.
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