{"id":541,"date":"2010-10-26T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=541"},"modified":"2010-10-26T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T15:45:30","slug":"file_under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/10\/file_under\/","title":{"rendered":"File Under: &#8220;??????????&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to set the scene. Last Thursday, violinist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneakikomeyers.com\/\">Anne Akiko Meyers<\/a> paid the world-record price of $3,600,000 for a 1697 Stradivarius violin known as &#8220;The Molitor&#8221;. The instrument was sold online by Tarisio Auctions. Please note that the last thing yours truly bought on the interwebz was a $50 David Byrne print from the wonderful site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20x200.com\/art\/2010\/10\/roots-of-war-in-popular-song-forest-of-no-return.html\">20&#215;200<\/a>.&nbsp; &#8220;The Molitor&#8221; is believed to have been owned by, wait for it, Napoleon. Yeah, that Napoleon. Bonaparte (comma) Napoleon. <\/p>\n<p>In Bizarre News of Today, a friend forwarded me an e mail saying that Meyers would be performing on&#8230;you didn&#8217;t guess it&#8230;MSNBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036677\/\"><i>Countdown with Keith Olbermann<\/i><\/a> at 8 ET\/5 PT tonight. What the <i>what???, <\/i>perhaps you&#8217;re thinking? I asked her publicist <a href=\"http:\/\/rebeccadavispr.com\/\">Rebecca Davis<\/a> what the Strad was going on, and she responded, &#8220;It all started with this news from last week. Keith got wind of it and was intrigued so tweeted it.&nbsp; We then had Anne tweet back telling him she&#8217;d be happy to play for him anytime and he took her up on it! No, they do not have musicians on the show often if ever, but they are jumping on the news of the record-setting sale and he wants to show the audience just what a 3.6 M violin sounds like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Twitter exchange, from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/anneakikomeyers\">Meyers&#8217; feed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AnneAkikoMeyers.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/AnneAkikoMeyers.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"353\" width=\"500\" \/>&#8230;and from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/keitholbermann\">Olbermann&#8217;s Twitter feed<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KeithOlbermannTwitter.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/KeithOlbermannTwitter.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"371\" width=\"500\" \/>To give you an idea of what <i>Countdown with Keith Olbermann<\/i> is usually about, here&#8217;s a screenshot of the video on the homepage:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CountdownwithKeithOlbermann.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/CountdownwithKeithOlbermann.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"325\" width=\"500\" \/>Hmm. Perhaps Keith Olbermann was also responsible for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/08\/good-old-boys.html\"><i>Mostly Mozart <\/i>programming<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/juddgreenstein.com\/why.html#whatwhitemenlooklike\">New York Philharmonic season highlights<\/a> of 2009?<\/p>\n<p>At 8pm tonight, I will be at a <i>Sound of Music <\/i>sing-a-long embarrassing myself and trying not to catch bedbugs, but if you watch or it ends up on YouTube tomorrow, report back!&nbsp; We here at <i>Life&#8217;s a Pitch <\/i>always support classical music on the TV, even when the circumstances originally confuse us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to set the scene. Last Thursday, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers paid the world-record price of $3,600,000 for a 1697 Stradivarius violin known as &#8220;The Molitor&#8221;. The instrument was sold online by Tarisio Auctions. 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