Boston Globe, July 6, 2003

Music hit the high notes, too, with Tarisio Auctions achieving at its May online sale the highest auction price ever for an early period Stradivarius violin. That was $949,500 for the concert violin used by Jan Kubelik, the late conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for much of his career.

Records also were set in the sale of the Isaac Stern Collection, including $141,000 for a violin by the French maker Jean Baptiste Vuillaume and the $130,000 for a violin made by a living maker [Samuel Zygmuntowicz].