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Suburban music teacher DEFEATS world-renowned classical musician in court battle over £80,000 violin

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Pictured: Professor Mateja Marinkovic, a former Royal Academy of Music associate A suburban music teacher has won her court battle against a world-renowned classical musician over an antique £80,000 violin he allegedly offered to buy from her with cash hidden inside a piano in Belgrade.  Ruzica West, 38, sued Professor Mateja Marinkovic, a former Royal Academy … Read more

The life-saving violin of Auschwitz – the cherished instrument was Rosa’s only chance of survival

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As a young girl, Natalie Cumming listened to her aunt’s harrowing accounts of surviving unimaginable horrors in brutal Nazi death camps – and how her most cherished possession became her only chance of survival That violin means everything to me. My family survived only because of it Pulling her thin top around her for warmth, … Read more