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Faber, Tony: Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection.(Book Review)
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Faber, Tony Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection New York: Random House 288 pp., $23.95, ISBN 0-375-50848-1 Publication Date: April 2005
In Tony Faber's Stradivari's Genius, the histories of five important works of the celebrated instrument maker Antonio Stradivari are cleverly spun. An arcane topic is made accessible to the audience in a fashion similar to that of the films The Red Violin and Amadeus. But whereas those films make no attempt to be historically correct, Stradivari's Genius reflects an attempt at ...
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Fit to print: the wife of architect Norman Foster is a shrink, a sex expert and now an art-publishing heavy.(Eye)
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Down-to-Earth 'Giants'
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Queen's Birthday Honours: The Full List
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
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adamfamily values:a saga for our time
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Letter: Blind to oomph on South Bank
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Fostering Talent.
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