Documentation of Roman Totenberg's Stradivarius violin. The instrument went missing after one of Roman's concerts but was rediscovered more than three decades later.
Courtesy of the Totenberg family
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Tenor Placido Domingo performs the title role in a 1994 performance of Verdi's Otello at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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Isabel Leonard and Nathan Gunn star as Ada and Inman in the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon's ColdMountain at the Santa Fe Opera.
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Circa 1974: a photo of Vic Firth, the former principal timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a leader among percussion equipment manufacturers.
Milton Feinberg/Courtesy of the Boston Symphony
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