New Jersey’s Strad Problem – Who Gets To Play Them?

The New Jersey Symphony is the recipient of an amazing bounty – 30 violins from the Italian Golden Age – including 12 Strads. “The collection makes its official debut Saturday , when guests at a fund-raiser charging $2,500 per ticket will hear the instruments played at the historic railroad terminal hall at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. As the date nears, a new dilemma arises: In the midst of such bounty, who gets to play one, and who doesn’t?”