Trying the SMITHSONIAN’s $200+million rare instrument collection!
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I was recently performing chamber music in Washington DC with some of my friends at Dumbarton Oaks. While there, we took a day trip to the Smithsonian Institution to try out their stunning collection of instruments. Somehow, we ended up sight-reading through the Brahms G Major sextet. The ‘decorated’ Stradivarius instruments are among the most expensive in the world and…we played on a set of them! These instruments are priceless and in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian (but…Strad violins seem to fetch $5-20 million and…well...these are really, really rare examples!)
Watch along as Eric Jacobsen, Simone Porter, Grace Park, and I go on a field trip, encounter Kenneth Slowik and Steven Dann, and try some truly incredible instruments!
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0:00 Intro
1:17 Capitol vs. Capital and, The Adventure Begins!
1:49 The Smithsonian collection backstory
4:12 The collection!
5:47 Violist Steven Dann randomly shows up
6:33 “Quite possibly the best sounding instrument ever made”
6:50 This viola may have influenced Brahms
9:12 “This was Norwegian Ole Bull’s Stradivarius”
9:46 Grab an instrument, we’re reading Brahms!
11:42 Eric’s reflection
12:30 Grace’s reflection
15:26 Simone’s reflection
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I had the immense pleasure of playing these instruments as a grad student at UMD. Prof. Slowik was one of our most beloved teachers, and he invited our Beethoven quartet seminar class to come to the Smithsonian after hours to play these priceless Strads. It was one of the most memorable and inspiring nights of my life, I'm so glad he is still the curator and offering this experience to players!
What a wonderful opportunity to sample the hyper amazing collection
@masumirostad
Ай бұрын
They were a treat to play!!!
We handled the Estate of Charlotte Bergen, who bequeathed the Servais Strad to the Smithsonian. I recall it sitting, for some days, in our locked storage room, before being sent. Miss Bergen was a fine musician and would rent out Carnegie Hall and the American Symphony Orchestra and put on free concerts, at which she would also play her cello.
Outstanding!!!❤❤❤❤❤
These instruments are all so responsive, so pretty, with such dynamic voices. What a joy it must be to play them. Thanks for this video.
@masumirostad
Ай бұрын
Yes, that's right, they are!
at 7:10 the violinist is nailing that scale!
Imagine how good the gut string masters of the 17th century were, The process was done with extreme care and complexity. The secrets were kept by family members to ensure a lasting livelihood.
Very fun and spontaneous! IT seemed in retrospect to blend with TAKE me out to the old ball park, which I started out with this morning after a long winter hiatus. Not that I am anything like the caliber of musicians at the Smithsonian. Still it all seemed to homogenized into a flowing whole. Please make more of these specials I thoroughly enjoy them.😅
The Smithsonian loaned the 4 matched Strads for approx 10 years to the Cleveland Quartet. Their farewell concert was in 1995 and of course, was played on the Smithsonian Strads, you can see several documentaries I made about the Cleveland Quarter on my channel: kzread.info/dron/ofPgbF9p1cDGoqB4lMn2bg.html
@masumirostad
9 күн бұрын
Wow. I was a student at Juilliard when I was lucky enough to attend their final performance at Lincoln Center. It was wonderful!
Man! instruments and cute instrumentalist. Nice day !
Don't make fun of Violas! They are just as imporatant as every other instrument. Such a cool video. Thanks for posting it.
Quite the musical treasures there so this is a gift!
Simone Porter! Such an outstanding musician! Thank you for sharing.
These instruments need to be played not locked away !!
@masumirostad
Ай бұрын
They’re regularly performed on by the Smithsonian Chamber Players!
@michaelreaper666
Ай бұрын
@@masumirostad Nice ..thanks ..:)
I am an absolute nerd about beautiful instruments, PLEASE do not stop what you’re doing. I watch and rewatch every single last one of them while I watch breakfast. It has become a ritual at this point
@nickiemcnichols5397
Ай бұрын
I’m an instrument nerd too. I’ve owned three violins and over three dozen ukuleles.
@masumirostad
Ай бұрын
Love this! Thanks for watching!
@masumirostad
Ай бұрын
No viola??
Sarah's 6 million dollar Guarneri del Gesù violin goes clank against her microphone
What a nice surprise to see Steve playing the King Louis Amati 🤩
@masumirostad
Ай бұрын
Yeah! What a tone!
@virtuosovich
Ай бұрын
@@masumirostad such an amazing collection. I hope one day Smithsonian can open a museum dedicated to musical instruments. I believe they have a large collection of historical keyboard instruments as well in storage.
wow... The VIOLAASSSS
Nice video. Next time, I would keep the interviews in color.
@masumirostad
9 күн бұрын
Yeah…that was my poor solution to the zebra striping due to poor lighting backstage at Dumbarton Oaks…
10:46 OH MY....
5:39 - as a violist, my ears perked up upon hearing "...Primrose Guarneri.." in the background.
Dor-AHN? I'm amused because if he means Michael Doran I know that guy and its usually said very American-like, door-an.
Would be nice to actually hear these instruments played, but it’s a racket with musicians playing over each other!
@masumirostad
26 күн бұрын
Too much enthusiasm!
No, a Rolls Royce.
candy shop
@benFabian-fg7bh
Ай бұрын
candy shop indeed
Nada de strad..!!! Se llaman STRADIVARIUS, Ok? Aunque les cueste más trabajo decirlo.
@cyruzrodrigo4075
21 күн бұрын
strad
If you drop it… 5:11
@masumirostad
9 күн бұрын
😅
Brahms is the best, you could choose ...
$200,000,000? Did someone pay that much money for a violin?
BMW!?! No, more like a Rolls Royce, Bentley or Koenigsegg!
@masumirostad
7 күн бұрын
…or Blue Origin!
I would rather just have a modern good sounding / playing instrument then these .
It would be funny to see someone accidentally sit on one.
Mono sound might show their better qualities?