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May 6, 2008
Taxi driver gets musical "thank you"
This is the best news story I've read in a long time. How awesome is this?
A violinist who left his 285-year-old instrument in a taxi in the United States is playing a concert to thank the driver who returned it to him.Philippe Quint is giving a private 30-minute performance on Tuesday in the cab waiting area at Newark Liberty International Airport.
He left his violin, a 1723 Kiesewetter Stradivarius, in a taxi on the way back from the airport last month.
The driver, Mohamed Khalil, got in touch the next day to return it.
The violin is older than our country and worth more than four million dollars. And the violinist held the "thank you" concert not in a concert hall, but at the cab waiting area at an airport. Plus the family of the taxi driver is going to his next concert at Carnegie Hall in September. :)
I like when I can find good news like this in heaps of not-so-good and just-plain-awful news.
Posted by KarissaKilgore at May 6, 2008 12:53 PM
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Yes, that's a great story.
What I want to know is, when the musician told people about his lost instrument, how many people made the "world's smallest violin" gesture?
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at May 6, 2008 5:04 PM
LOL... Nice one. Hopefully not too many if they knew him as a serious musician.
Posted by: Karissa at May 6, 2008 7:36 PM