Mentoring is music to ears for BSO?s concertmaster

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Head cocked to the side, chin pressed against his 1687 Stradivarius violin, Jonathan Carney, 44, holds a most unnatural position before unleashing his bow and nimble fingers on the instrument?s four strings.

An anonymous American philanthropist loaned him the instrument crafted by 17th-century luthier Antonio Stradivari.

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