News Archive

Mar-01-2010
Galleries for Musical Instruments Reopen at Metropolitan Museum
After an eight-month hiatus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments on March 2, featuring a refreshed and reinstalled presentation of its renowned collection of Western musical instruments.
Feb-26-2010
David Soyer, Guarneri Cellist, Has Died
David Soyer, the founding cellist of the Guarneri String Quartet, died yesterday at his apartment in New York, a day after his 87th birthday. The news comes from Frank Salomon, a co-administrator of the Marlboro Music Festival, with which Mr. Soyer had a long association.
Feb-22-2010
Tarisio's to auction the William Moennig & Son collection
Tarisio Auctions will sell the collection of the renowned William Moennig & Son violin shop in an extensive online auction June 22, 23 and 24. The New York-based Internet auction house Tarisio will sell over 800 lots of instruments, bows, photographs, books, ephemera and seasoned tonewood. An online catalog of the complete auction will be available March 15.
Feb-21-2010
For former Clifton child prodigy, her humble world mattered most
A LIFE: PATRICIA TRAVERS, 1927-2010 Carnegie Hall was atwitter as Patricia Travers — an 11-year-old from Clifton with brown curls and an angel’s face — ascended the stage. Patricia, who took up violin at age 4, performed the Mendelssohn Concerto with the National Orchestral Association "to a rapturous and prolonged demonstration," Olin Downes wrote in The New York Times on Jan. 16, 1940. The performance helped propel a career as brilliant as it was fleeting.
Feb-05-2010
Philly Violin Shop Closing Signals Death of an Era
Over the past century, some of the world's best violinists developed trust in William Moennig & Son, a storied shop they could go to for repairs, adjustments, new instruments and bows. String players returned to Moennig through the Great Depression, two world wars and an evolution in classical music as tastes changed. From Isaac Stern to Itzhak Perlman to Philadelphia Orchestra greats, they consulted four generations of Moennigs.
Feb-04-2010
In praise of… the V&A's instrument collection
Most of the time, and no wonder, you hear little criticism of London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The museum is a national treasure trove. Its new renaissance galleries have rightly been praised to the skies. But the V&A's decision to close its collection of some 260 musical instruments has provoked a continuing crescendo of discord in the musical world. Nobody pretends that the current display of instruments is ideal. For a few days more, they remain cheek by jowl with part of the museum's fashion collection in gallery 40. From 22 February, however, gallery 40 is closing for refurbishment as a fashion display. After that, the fate of the instruments is uncertain.
Jan-27-2010
Tarisio transitions at the top Departing partners stay on as consultants
New York, January 27, 2010 — Jason Price has acquired his partners’ interest in a friendly deal and is now the sole owner of Tarisio Auctions, the only major stringed-instrument dealer that runs online auctions. Price founded the New York-based firm in 1999 with Christopher Reuning and Dmitry Gindin who will both serve as expert consultants for certifications and consignments. The ownership change was effective Jan. 1. The decision for Reuning and Gindin to shift away from active ownership in the firm was extensively considered. Each has a full plate of important instrument-related research projects to which they can now devote themselves fully.
Jan-26-2010
Orlando Cole, cellist and Curtis teacher, dies
Cellist Orlando Cole, believed to be the last living link with the 1924 opening of the Curtis Institute of Music, died yesterday morning at the age of 101. He worked with Curtis-trained composer Samuel Barber on major compositions and taught hundreds of students who joined the world's orchestras and became virtuosos, such as Lynn Harrell and Lorne Munroe.
Jan-25-2010
Cremona's got the world on a (violin) string
Antonio Stradivari's house in the heart of Cremona is a disgrace. The street-level floor has been turned over to a kitchenware shop plastered with discount signs. The three upper floors look abandoned. A simple marble plaque provides the only clue that the world's most famous violin maker, whose instruments are worth millions apiece, lived here with his first wife from 1667 to 1680. But musical pilgrims to this handsome northern Italian city, about 90 kilometres southeast of Milan, need not be entirely disappointed, for just along the very same street is a unique school – La Scuola Internazionale di Liuteria di Cremona, the international luthier's school.
Jan-25-2010
Man extradited to US on violin-trafficking charges
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- French authorities have extradited a suspect to Los Angeles to face federal charges of transporting two rare, stolen violins. The FBI said in a news release that 43-year-old Anthony Eugene Notarstefano of Long Beach, Calif. was returned Friday. He had been in French custody for two years.
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