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A new employee at a Massachusetts pawnshop paid $50 for a violin that turned out to be worth 5,000 times that amount. A local television reports said the employee at LBC Boutique and Loan had no idea what he was buying when he paid $50 for a Ferdinando Gagliano violin, which was hand built in 1759. The…

While visiting China for a residency and 40th anniversary tour, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra were delayed on the tarmac waiting for a flight to Macao. Instead of getting irritated, the Orchestra members decided to offer an impromptu concert. Two violin players, a viola player, and a cello player…

There are times when something everybody knows to be true is not really true at all. Everybody knows that the 300 year old violins crafted by the Italian masters Stradivari and Guarneri have an exquisite sound unmatched by modern violinmakers. One proof of their quality is the high price tag they carry,…

D.J. Barnhouse gives this ill. We will suppose the case of a man who loves violin music. He has the means to buy for himself a very fine violin, and he also purchases the very best radio obtainable. He builds up a library of the great musical scores, so that he is able to take any piece that is announced…

On January 12, 2007, at 7:51 a.m., world-renowned violin virtuoso Joshua Bell, dressed as a common street musician, played for forty-five minutes at the top of an indoor escalator system serving the L’Enfant Plaza subway station in Washington, DC. An artist who commands more than $1,000 a minute for…

I recently read an article by Jill Carattini where she told this story: “A nurse named Melanie was on her way to work when something in the trash bin caught her eye. She was immediately taken with the possibilities in the discarded treasure. It was a cello, slightly cracked in several places, but nonetheless…

I recently read an article by Jill Carattini where she told this story: “A nurse named Melanie was on her way to work when something in the trash bin caught her eye. She was immediately taken with the possibilities in the discarded treasure. It was a cello, slightly cracked in several places, but nonetheless…

Learning, Preaching, Expository, Fiddle, Violin If you learn expository preaching you can do any other type of sermon – its like playing the violin and going to Juilliard you can still fiddle in Branson

Imagine that you want to be a concert violinist. Someone gives you an old, poorly made violin on which to practice. Of course, you wish you had a Stradivarius, the best violin in the world, but you don’t. So you study day and night, you pour your heart and soul into playing that inferior violin well.…

IN ERNEST GORDON'S TRUE ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN A WORLD WAR II JAPANESE PRISON CAMP, THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE KWAI, THERE IS A STORY THAT NEVER FAILS TO MOVE ME. IT IS ABOUT A MAN WHO THROUGH GIVING IT ALL AWAY LITERALLY TRANSFORMED A WHOLE CAMP OF SOLDIERS. THE MAN'S NAME WAS ANGUS MCGILLIVRAY. ANGUS WAS…

The great violinist, Nicolo Paganini, willed his marvelous violin to Genoa, Italy—the city of his birth—but only on condition that the instrument never be played upon. It was an unfortunate condition, for it is a peculiarity of wood that as long as it is used and handled, it shows little wear. As soon…

Illustration – For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, shoe – horse, horse – canon, canon – battle, battle – war. Illustration – The Auction ..old violin..all we have left ..what is my bid? $1,2,3..Old gray haired man .. resin up the bow .. tightened up the strings .. played a melody as sweet as the angels…

HARDSHIP/PERSEVERANCE I don't think it was the worst thing that could happen at a concert, but it wasn't good. On November 18, 1995, a string on Itzhak Perlman's violin snapped as he played at Avery Fisher Hall, at the Lincoln Center in New York. Really, the word snapped doesn't convey what happened…

The American Grammy Award-winning violinist, Joshua David Bell (Born: 1967) emerged from the D.C. Metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript - a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved shirt, and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From…

Many years ago an Italian recluse was found dead in his house. He had lived frugally all his life, but when friends were going through his house to sort out the few possessions he had accumulated they discovered 246 expensive violins crammed into his attic. Some even more valuable ones were in a bureau…

An old violin player explained why his violin had such quality. It was made from a certain kind of European tree, but not all of these trees would do. "The trees in the forest, sheltered by their neighbors, will not do," he said. "Fine violins come from lonely trees that grows on the hillsides where…

|Joshua Bell emerged from the Metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript—a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt, and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet,…

Joshua Bell emerged from the Metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript—a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt, and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet,…

EZRA 9:8 On January 12 the Washington Post conducted an experiment: What would happen if a world class musician performed elegant classical music on a priceless instrument in the Metro station of a major American city? The city was Washington D.C. The musician was Joshua Bell, who can earn upwards of…

"Geezers" -- a slang term for any old man -- are easy to spot. At parades, they're the ones standing a little taller and often saluting when the flag passes by. At sporting events and at ceremonies on national holidays, they're the ones who stand erect and hold their hands over their hearts when the…

REFLECTIONS Classic and contemporary excerpts. | WEPLACEPI GIVE . /WE A CALL NEXT YEAR' | Nomads on the Jericho Road God does not want Chris­tians to be nomads, hermits, or recluses. ... In the light of this truth it might be good if we gave up singing one of the old spirituals: On the Jericho Road,…

Laboratories Of the SOUL Testing God's new creation in two Japanese prison camps O n an airplane high above Col­orado, I finished reading Lang-don Gilkey's Shantung Com­pound, an account of the selfish absurdities of some 1,400 merchants, missionaries, engineers, and their fam­ilies, interned in a Japanese…