July 2009

Since Ms. Dardanella is the only thing keeping this blog alive just now, let’s go with it.

Wikipedia tells us that Sascha Jacobsen lived from 1895 to “1971 or 1972.” He was a violinist, and he played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 1950s. And, it seems, he was a musician of sufficient skill to command a Stradivarius. An interesting story of Mr. Jacobsen and his Strad - lost in a rain storm and swept out to sea, fortunately to be recovered and restored (the violin, not Mr. Jacobsen) can be read here.

Not much else seems available for my cursory Internet researches. Perhaps someone will blunder onto this site and enlighten us. Meanwhile, his Dardanella is an interesting addition to our collection.

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