{"id":699,"date":"2015-03-23T22:44:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T05:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gots2know.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2015-03-25T09:40:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:40:32","slug":"699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gots2know.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Violin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Huberman_violin400x400\"<\/a>A 300+ year old Stradivarius violin was deeply connected and a hero to a story was untold until today. The\u00a0documentary film \u201cThe Return of the Violin\u201d by Roy Mandal,\u00a0brought tears to my eyes as I watched the film. Who knew a violin, music, and a musician, in particular, a Polish Jew, could save so many people\u2019s lives and rescue so many families by forming the Palestine Orchestra in the horrible, scary, era of Hitler.<\/p>\n

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Bronislaw Huberman<\/p><\/div>\n

When the news was revealed that\u00a0Bronislaw Huberman\u2019s lost violin was\u00a0finally found, I didn\u2019t think much about it other than another Stradivarius violin surfaced, and it\u2019s going to be expensive. And, years later, Joshua Bell acquired\u00a0his Stradivarius and paid a fortune\u00a0for this red color violin. The Red Violin is what I connected to this violin until today. What\u2019s ironic is that the lost and found violin also ended up in the hands of\u00a0another virtuoso\u00a0solo concert violist, and he is also of Jewish decent.<\/p>\n

I was educated that being a musician would be \u201cpoor, can\u2019t making a living unless you are genius like Beethoven, even so you won\u2019t know it until after you’re dead\u201d, but I was madly in loved with the piano. My first introduction to music was when\u00a0I first heard my cousin perform on stage when I was only 5 years old. \u00a0Thereafter, I exchanged my piano lessons for\u00a0straight A’s every term and earned my first piano with 2 straight years of being one of the top 3 students in my\u00a0class and won 8th place in\u00a0a youth piano competition in Kaosuhing, Taiwan. Later in\u00a0my life, I used my scholarship money to purchase my dream piano, and I carried it wherever\u00a0I moved through out my college life to now as a mother of two<\/p>\n

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Christmas Recital<\/p><\/div>\n

beautiful children. I continue to care for the piano, and it is in a great shape, has beautiful sound, and is gorgeous looking. Because of the knowledge implanted in me\u00a0by my parents and the people sourrounding me, and of course with so much news about\u00a0starving musicians and artists, I never intended\u00a0to go to\u00a0music school and receive a music degree, but I also didn’t\u00a0stop learning music, and continue to perform piano and solo lyric soprano pieces until my life entered a new chapter. \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0Moreover, I\u2019ve continued learning the violin. Because during my 2nd year of college, I decided to learned violin, and I was so obsessed with it that I vowed to myself\u00a0that my violin will sound just like my singing.<\/p>\n

As I watched and guided my two kids learn and practice music, I had a dream to share music along with my kids with\u00a0autistic children. Once again, because my father told me once \u201cyou must able to take care of yourself before you can think to help others,\u201d it is still a dream today.<\/p>\n

Through the lens of the survivors of the Holocaust, the story not only talks\u00a0about\u00a0a horrible event but also\u00a0how a great Jewish violinist used his violin and music to send a message to the world. By reaching out and seeking help, the orchestra that later became the Israeli Philharmonic helped save people\u2019s lives\u00a0and souls — as many as he could. In addition, it tells how other musicians sacrificed their opportunity just to save more lives. Along expanding my knowledge of being a \u201cmusician\u201d with the power to save people\u2019s life just like soldiers or\u00a0politicians and make a name for the world to remember, for people to honor.<\/p>\n

The film ended with few seconds clip of Joshua Bell performing Brahms Violin Concerto in D, Op 77 for the opening of the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews — the\u00a0perfect music to recount\u00a0their history.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Bell performing with Huberman’s Stradivarius violin<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources:<\/p>\n

The Return of Violin\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tZRS3f4Ir8Q<\/a><\/h6>\n
The Return of the Violin\u00a0<\/em>chronicles the odyssey of a 301-year-old Stradivarius, now played by Joshua Bell. \u00a0http:\/\/www.92y.org\/Event\/The-Return-of-the-Violin<\/a><\/h6>\n
A STOLEN STRADIVARIUS, A 51-YEAR OLD SECRET\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/05\/14\/nyregion\/a-stolen-stradivarius-a-51-year-old-secret.html?smid=fb-share<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n

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