![]() ![]() When I told people about things that happened in my life, people would say, ‘No, you’re exaggerating. My perspective was vastly different from what they were used to, and by ‘different’ it seemed that it also meant that my perspective was wrong. But they didn’t seem to want to hear what I faced as a Black man. Which is fine: I don’t need people to feel sorry for me. ![]() “Nobody really cared how hard it was to play the violin, or felt sorry for me if I couldn’t take private lessons. ![]() “I know, being in the classical music world, that there are a lot of people just like me, with similar stories, and we’ve never had the opportunity to tell them before,” he explains. The book is based in part on his own experiences as a concert violinist. Brendan Slocumb is clear about the lived experience behind The Violin Conspiracy, a propulsive first novel about the theft of a Stradivarius valued at $10 million on the eve of the international Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. ![]()
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