A Strad, Then No Strad, Then…

“At 17, soon after winning a silver medal at the 1978 Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow, Dylana Jenson was lent a 1743 Guarneri del Gesu from a Los Angeles philanthropist. The withdrawal of the del Gesu sent Jenson into an artistic and emotional tailspin from which she wouldn’t begin to emerge for more than a decade.”