The Moth Radio Hour: The Rest is History

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this hour, an ancient instrument, a life-changing disaster, and survival in the face of genocide. People who experienced history, and its artifacts, firsthand. Hosted by The Moth's Senior Director, Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Musician Frank Almond makes a historic discovery. Sivad Johnson takes us behind the scenes of the Detroit Fire Department. Henny Lewin, a young Jewish girl, is smuggled out of a Lithuanian ghetto during WWII. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.5	I'm Meg Bowles, and in this hour, we'll hear three stories told live on stage in Northampton, Massachusetts, New York City, and Flint, Michigan.
0:54.1	Our first storyteller, Frank Amund, and Flint, Michigan.
0:58.6	Our first storyteller, Frank Amund, is the concert master of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
1:03.4	Frank is a professional violinist and has performed as a soloist in some of the world's most important music venues, including the Alice Telly Hall at Lincoln Center, where he told this story.
1:09.0	The only difference this time he took the stage
1:11.5	without his violin.
1:13.2	Here's Frank Amund, live at the Moth.
1:21.0	In 2008, I received an email,
1:24.4	and the subject line was a violin. And the sender went on to explain that they had in their possession
1:31.3	a Stradivarius violin from 1715 and it was part of an estate situation
1:37.3	and they were looking for some guidance.
1:39.3	I'm a professional violinist and have had the good fortune
1:43.3	to play any number of
1:44.9	Strativari instruments for decades all over the world even in here a few times
1:50.0	as I recall and the thing about Strativari is the mystique is not that they're
1:57.8	300 years old or that they're worth so much money, it's that they're these
2:04.1	amazing functional antiquities, and they're powerful, and they're sonically nuanced, and they're
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