British police are asking for assistance in identifying the suspect in the theft of a 285-year-old violin, which was snatched while a musician was in a pub. Skip to content Skip to site index.

Mira Wang, protege of the late virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, this week debuted his Ames Stradivarius, stolen 37 years ago and reclaimed in 2015. "It's like meeting a new stranger," she says.